With the state playoffs less than a month away, the MIAA girls lacrosse committee came together Wednesday morning to plan for another epic conclusion to the year.

The cutoff date of Memorial Day for the postseason is rapidly approaching, and the girls lacrosse playoffs are set to begin May 29. The championship games would take place June 11-12.

Babson College has been set as a finals site again this year, providing fans an opportunity to see state titles captured in a collegiate setting.

Following the pandemic, it has become increasingly difficult for the MIAA to land title games at great neutral sites. The Wellesley institution stepped back up this year for each of the girls championships. The game sites for the boys finals remain in question.

“I think it’s just about trying to find the right location and fit for multiple games in a venue,” said MIAA executive director Richard Pearson. “All venues have challenges late in June. Even high schools have challenges. A high school that doesn’t have athletes in the tournament is looking to close down their facilities, and colleges are well after their normal seasons, or they’re starting camps. So the facility challenge is not overly specific, as much as it is general in the timing of everything.”

Another topic of focus from the virtual get-together was pretty straightforward. How could the MIAA correct minor mistakes impacting girls lacrosse in the state? Officiating assignments have become more and more difficult to deal with due to numbers, and it was heavily discussed.

Officials on hand such as Teri Riggs and Mary Lou Thimas raised the issue of occasional games being split into halves, a practice that should be stopped due to the problems it causes, such as injury procedure risks and of course — confusion for schools involved.

As for other noteworthy developments, Riggs retired from her position as the officials representative with the committee following a long career in which she helped grow the sport in the state. Thimas was promoted to fill her vacant spot following a process.

Meanwhile, Notre Dame (Hingham) coach Meredith Frank McGinnis was tabbed as the MIAA girls lacrosse committee’s new coaches representative, and is now set to run things for the next three years.

Similar to how things broke down in the boys lacrosse committee’s morning meeting, the possibility of adding a shot clock in the future was also posed. McGinnis and her fellow coaches were excited about discussing things further.

The shot clock could appear in a year or two in Massachusetts.

“We know that many states and the Federation rules committees, of which we have two members on, one on each — are looking at that concept nationally,” said Pearson. “So I think right now, we’re in the position of saying, OK, let’s see what happens in these rules committee meetings which are coming up in the next 30, 45 days or something like that. See where the national takes us, then we’re going to put that on our agenda for both committees in the fall, kind of to see where we are at.”