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From a scorer who cares...
From a scorer who cares...
I'm a good scorekeeper. Really. I've done State Tournaments. I view every game I work -- as a scorer or a timer -- as important as a State Tournament game.
But I've had to have T's called on myself. At home. I fill out my girls team's scorebook because the coach really trusts me (and he likes the way I do it). Sometimes, however, I forget once in a great while; a player comes back from an injury and I don't add her back into the lineup. It happened a few years ago and I forgot to list a player in my home book. When the player (a bench player, but a contributor to our team) came into the game, I had to notify the floor officials of the discrepancy. With a face redder than the sun. And a shrug and a sorry to my coach. (He forgave me.)
Also, just last week, our JV team's coach (she fills out her own book) forgot to list a player the game after coming back from an injury. This was an away game, and when I told her the player wasn't in the book at the time of reporting, she asked what the penalty would be. I told her that if the player went into the game, we would get a T. The player then withdrew from substituting. But then the coach decided to put her in anyway a minute later and took the T. (We lost by 6, but that was because of the team's play.)
Yes, it's supposed to be the Head Coach's ultimate responsibility to ensure the submitted lineup is correct. But I screwed up and it cost our team a T. (I don't think it really mattered in the end, because our team lost more games than it won.) Now I triple-check everything with my coach. The current one still really trusts me. Especially this year when I wasn't able to be at one game and he filled out the book -- he missed a player and had a couple of wrong numbers.
P.S. to Juulie -- I work at a 4A High School on the West Side of town and I don't want to see that kind of stuff with the books either.
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