Had my first one-man crew experience of the year last night.
Local Christain School varsity, which is equal in play level to freshman/C team in the area. Here, all games at all levels are 3-man, Jr. High on up except for the occasional scheduling challenge when we don't have enough officials and go 2-man in lower level games to compensate.
The major exception is the Christian schools. Everything is two-man. not sure why, but that's for someone else to figure out. Pay is better than "regular" varsity, and the games are played with excellent sportsmanship so I'm not complaining.
Anyway, my partner went to the wrong Christain school last night. So, for the first quarter of the girls game I was hustling FT line to FT line, doing my best to keep things in control. Game went fairly well, and fouls were easy to call since the girls usually apologized to each other when fouling.
Partner showed during the quarter break and felt quite bad about missing the early part of the game. Good guy, and good official - sometimes it just happens!