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Originally posted by imaref
Rich....
So you had the Catholic Central vs. Abundant Life game...eh?
Catholic Central is supposed to be one of the teams that could upset Randolph if they make it to the Sectional final at Watertown. I had Randolph first round....they scored 91 points that night and are the real deal!. Ryan Tillema is a great kid! I see that they beat Central WI Christian tonight by 30 points. How did your #1 seed look?
I worked in Portage tonight. Portage easily defeated a "flat" Watertown Luther Prep team. I've had LP before and they didn't look like the same team. Game should have been closer. Portage had a bye first round as a result of their #1 seed. Portage could surprise some folks in the later rounds.
My partner says baseball starts in 3-weeks. He said he may need to force himself to sit down and do his test.
Glad to hear you had a good season....dust those plate shoes off...so they can just get dirt kicked on 'em by some disgruntled coach.
Take it easy....
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Catholic Central came out flat and Abundant Life came out strong and had an 8-point lead in the first quarter. But Catholic Central wore them down. Final was 82-63 and it didn't seem that close.
We had an unfortunate situation in the fourth quarter that necessitated a report to the state office. I called an intentional foul on a breakaway and hesitated to make sure that both players were back up on their feet before reporting.
I'm at the table reporting and giving the visiting coach a clarification on the intentional when I hear a whistle and I knew there was a technical called behind me.
Turns out that the ball ended up in the stands and one of the kids in the home student section threw the ball at one of the players from the visiting team and hit him with it.
With the intentional foul and this action, my partner decided to call a technical foul on the home team for the action of this kid. Frankly, I supported this wholeheartedly as an unnecessary foul combined with this activity set up a powder keg we didn't need with 1:30 left and a 20-25 point lead.
The best part of the night? The Catholic Central coach called me over, I'm thinking, to explain how we called a technical foul on a spectator. I was just about to tell him that I was going to have to get my partner to explain as I was reporting the foul at the time it happened when he simply said, "Please tell your partner I have no problem at all with that call." I must've looked surprised, because he said it again.
Now, the kicker. We missed how the ball got in the stands in the first place. A player from the visiting team threw there and said "shut the **** up." I know this to be true because my wife was sitting one section down and backed up the story in the car. I was reporting and clarifying and my partner was watching a larger group of players -- apparently this happened pretty quickly.
Once we found this out, I felt pretty terrible and decided to apologize to the home coach on behalf of the two of us for missing that. He wouldn't hear it. He told me that the visiting team players weren't his concern, but the action of his student was. All the coaches and game management personnel were outstanding to us during and after the game.
Could we have handled this better to have seen this? Possibly. Something I'll toss around in my head for the next few days. But I'm convinced that the day is here for that third official. No guarantees that with a third official we see the original act, but I'd say it would've been twice as likely. And more likely, there would've been a center official on that side of the floor and perhaps none of this would've happened in the first place.
[Edited by Rich Fronheiser on Mar 4th, 2005 at 01:48 AM]