July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Ticket sales a welcome chaos (03/21/06)
JCHS boys basketball
By By RACHELLE HAUGHN-
It’s chaos. But welcome chaos.
The Jay County High School athletics department has been flooded with hundreds of phone calls since 7:30 a.m. Monday from people seeking information about tickets for the JCHS boys basketball team’s game in the IHSAA State Finals Saturday. The Patriots will play the tenth-ranked New Castle Trojans for the Class 3A title at Conseco Fieldhouse at 6 p.m.
The sales started today, with the $10 tickets made available to members of the varsity and junior varsity teams, cheerleaders and their immediate family members beginning at 8 a.m. A line began forming at the high school at 7:30 a.m, and more than 200 tickets were sold by 8:30 a.m.
Tickets will go on sale to super and season ticket holders Wednesday, and to the general public Thursday.
The job is a big one with 2,500 tickets available and reserved seating for the first time in the team’s tournament run, but JCHS athletics director Phil Ford and secretary Joni Penrod are doing their best to stay on top of the situation.
“(We’re) as prepared as we can be,” Penrod said Monday afternoon. “I think it’s going to be real interesting.”
Penrod has called on her mother, Jeannie Habegger, to help things go more smoothly. Habegger was the first and only JCHS athletics secretary in school history before turning the job over to her daughter when she retired in December of 2003, and has experience with the assigned-seating format.
“I’ve got a great secretary and a great former secretary handling all the headaches for me,” Ford said.
Other faculty members have stepped up to the challenge by doing extra work and helping answer the telephones, he said. Although she has extra help, Penrod expects to spend most of her work days this week selling tickets.
“I’m planning on pretty much living out here,” she said.
If the initial interest in the tickets is any indicator, that is precisely what she may be doing.
Phone calls and e-mails about tickets have come from local fans as well as some in Ohio and Illinois. And the stream of people visiting the athletics office has been virtually unending.
“It’s been great,” Penrod said. “It’s been overwhelming too. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”
She expects Thursday, when tickets go on sale to the general public, to be the busiest.
Tickets will be available to the general public in the JCHS athletics office Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. They will also be sold prior to and during the community pep rally scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Individuals will be limited to a maximum of six tickets, Ford said.
A four-ticket limit was set for today’s sales, which end at 4 p.m. On Wednesday tickets will be sold to season and super ticket holders from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The athletics department will receive $1 for each ticket purchased at JCHS. The funds will be used to help offset expenses associated with Saturday’s game and travel.
There will be a special section at the game reserved for students. This section also will be reserved seating.
The tickets are good only for the second session of Saturday’s finals. The session includes Jay County’s game, as well as the Class 4A finale between Lawrence North and Muncie Central.[[In-content Ad]]
The Jay County High School athletics department has been flooded with hundreds of phone calls since 7:30 a.m. Monday from people seeking information about tickets for the JCHS boys basketball team’s game in the IHSAA State Finals Saturday. The Patriots will play the tenth-ranked New Castle Trojans for the Class 3A title at Conseco Fieldhouse at 6 p.m.
The sales started today, with the $10 tickets made available to members of the varsity and junior varsity teams, cheerleaders and their immediate family members beginning at 8 a.m. A line began forming at the high school at 7:30 a.m, and more than 200 tickets were sold by 8:30 a.m.
Tickets will go on sale to super and season ticket holders Wednesday, and to the general public Thursday.
The job is a big one with 2,500 tickets available and reserved seating for the first time in the team’s tournament run, but JCHS athletics director Phil Ford and secretary Joni Penrod are doing their best to stay on top of the situation.
“(We’re) as prepared as we can be,” Penrod said Monday afternoon. “I think it’s going to be real interesting.”
Penrod has called on her mother, Jeannie Habegger, to help things go more smoothly. Habegger was the first and only JCHS athletics secretary in school history before turning the job over to her daughter when she retired in December of 2003, and has experience with the assigned-seating format.
“I’ve got a great secretary and a great former secretary handling all the headaches for me,” Ford said.
Other faculty members have stepped up to the challenge by doing extra work and helping answer the telephones, he said. Although she has extra help, Penrod expects to spend most of her work days this week selling tickets.
“I’m planning on pretty much living out here,” she said.
If the initial interest in the tickets is any indicator, that is precisely what she may be doing.
Phone calls and e-mails about tickets have come from local fans as well as some in Ohio and Illinois. And the stream of people visiting the athletics office has been virtually unending.
“It’s been great,” Penrod said. “It’s been overwhelming too. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”
She expects Thursday, when tickets go on sale to the general public, to be the busiest.
Tickets will be available to the general public in the JCHS athletics office Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. They will also be sold prior to and during the community pep rally scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Individuals will be limited to a maximum of six tickets, Ford said.
A four-ticket limit was set for today’s sales, which end at 4 p.m. On Wednesday tickets will be sold to season and super ticket holders from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The athletics department will receive $1 for each ticket purchased at JCHS. The funds will be used to help offset expenses associated with Saturday’s game and travel.
There will be a special section at the game reserved for students. This section also will be reserved seating.
The tickets are good only for the second session of Saturday’s finals. The session includes Jay County’s game, as well as the Class 4A finale between Lawrence North and Muncie Central.[[In-content Ad]]
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