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Old Tue Jan 22, 2008, 07:23pm
RookieDude RookieDude is offline
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Funny you should ask this....

I was not at the game...but I heard, from a reliable source, that this almost happened last Saturday night.

The person I heard this from was watching her son play on the visiting Varsity boys team(Team B)....OK, maybe it isn't so reliable.

This lady said that the officials were "old and terrible"...they had just done the girls game before the boys game. She said that they had to hold up the game at one point so one of the ol' boys could get his legged wrapped.

Her son is playing on an undefeated team...rated 1st in State at this time.
Well, her son's team hit a 3 at the buzzer to go to OT. In OT her son made 6 points(of his game high 23) and Team B ended up winning by 1pt.

At the end of the OT...one of Team B's players slammed the ball down in his excitement of winning.

One of the officials blew his whistle to supposedly issue a T to the kid that slammed the ball.

The Coach of Team B screamed at his player that "he had just lost the game for them." (The Team B coach had received a T earlier in the game...he can be a screamer)

The H.S. kid started crying...but, that's a different story.

The officials got together and, with the help of the home team's coach...decided not to issue a T. The home team coach said he didn't want to win that way. Hmmmmm...pretty classy move on his part IMO.

Sooooo, Team B is still undefeated and the soap opera continues.

Oh yeah...did I mention that the lady with the story happens to be my sister.
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