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Our state does almost exclusively B/G varsity double headers. They have what we call supernights to save on facilities/transportation costs. Freshmen, JV, Varsity Boys and girls will all be played on the same night. So it typically goes
GAME 1: JV girls or boys in main gym (Crew 1), Other JV game in auxiliary gym (Crew 2).
GAME 2: Freshman Boys Aux gym (Crew 2), Varsity Girls main gym (Crew 3).
GAME 3: Freshman Girls Aux Gym (Crew 2 or some combination of crew 1 & 2), Varsity Boys main gym (Crew 3).
Or if you're having trouble envisioning that, the gym schedule looks like this:
Aux gym: Game 1 Freshman girls, Game 2 JV Boys, Game 3 JV Girls
Main gym: Game 1 Freshman Boys, Game 2 Varsity girls, Game 3 Varsity boys
A lot of times those freshman games are 2 man, but for the most part all of those games are 3 person crews in the big conference here. If you go to a small school, you can pretty much count on all sub varsity games being 2 man. Subvarsity officials on those nights will work 1, 2, or 3 games depending on desire and luck of the draw. Varsity officials work the doubleheader.
That schedule allows for sub varsity kids to be available for varsity games. I started out working these nights, and I liked working the triple header because you would make a bit more. As a sub varsity ref, you don't get paid as much per game as the varsity guys but you can make up the difference and more if you're willing to put in some time away from family. I think if we had a glut of officials, they would probably prefer not to have people work 3 games in a night because by the end of that third game, you are wiped.
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