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Stan, the short answer to your question is no. Girls and boys rarely play games on the same floor on the same night. Because of a Title IX lawsuit, the schools are now required to schedule an equal number of games for the girls and the boys on the "preferred" nights of the week (viz., Tuesday and Friday). This means that the girls and boys almost never play at the same site.
Additionally, officials in western MA are never scheduled to do back-to-back HS games. I don't know why that is, but every game has a different crew. Sometimes, obviously, if an official fails to show for a game then another official will have to "double dip" to cover the game, but that is the exception rather than the rule.
Lastly, as I mentioned in the above post, until 3 years ago our officials belonged to either the "boys' board" (and would get assigned boys' games only) or the "girls' board" (and would get assigned girls' games only). We were not required to be members of both boards. In fact, it was met with strong disapproval (mostly from the "boys' board") if it was discovered that you were on both boards. As I said, the girls' board was usually seen as the place for guys who couldn't get a decent boys' schedule.
That has all changed now. Now, officials from either board can work either boys or girls games, at the assignor's discretion. The result is that, within 5 years, I believe there will no longer be a "girls' board".
Chuck
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