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Old Mon Feb 12, 2007, 09:04am
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What we did

My partner and I stopped the game, brought the coaches together to talk about the situation. I explained to Team A coach that Team B coach was concerned about running up of the score (although they never show more than a 20 point lead on the scoreboard). Team A coach agreed to do everything he could to keep that from happening. We resumed the game and everything went fine until early in the 4th quarter and Team B coach threatened to employ his strategy again. Team A coach again reminded his team to "not take fast breaks, etc." At this point, I informed Team B coach that if he chose to employ his "new-found" strategy again, we (the officials) would declare the game over and award Team A the win (rightfully so). The game was finally completed with no further episodes. Seemed like the longest game of my life. In the end, I suppose we utilized the "actionless contest" rule that BKTBALLREF mentioned, though I didn't have the specific rule at hand at the time.
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