[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

This situation is a no brainer for the varsity officials. They should have hustled their tuckuses into the locker room and been out on the court as soon as possible to finish the game as a three-person crew, no matter whether they got paid for the one half of JV game or not. No asking should have been needed.

Sure, it is tough to jump into the middle of a game, but nobody wants to officiate a basketball game alone; it is very difficult to do and really is unsafe to do so.

Who cares what the home team thinks if the new officials make a call or two against them in the jr. varsity game. Officials are paid big dollars to make the correct decision. The home team will get over it and live to play another day.

Somebody from you association should have a talk with those two officials because they did not do right by you, the game, or themselves in letter you hang like that.