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My final regular season game on Tuesday was similar to this. Two not-very-good Class 1 (Smallest class) girls teams. Home team is a very small private school in the middle of town. Visitor is a rural school outside of our association's coverage, so I had never had them before.
V's coach would visibly react to every foul call that went against them, usually putting her hands up in the air. We're talking about routine fouls for a push or hand check in the middle of the second quarter that were only their 4th or 5th team fouls of the half. I didn't get a chance to talk to her before halftime, so the first time she did it in the second half, I was T so I walked back to her and told her that while she may not agree with every call, she needs to stop gesturing after a foul is called on her team. Thankfully that put an end to it.
The real funny was in the second half when the lead was exchanged several times. The Home team was in the BC and I was T. The H player with the ball picks up her dribble and throws a pass toward the FC, where one of her teammates jumps from the FC, catches the ball in the air, and lands in the BC. Of course I call the violation. The H fans went absolutely nuts. Coming out of their seats, screaming, gesturing, the whole nine yards. For a minute I thought I had blown it, thinking that the teammate had maybe had her foot on the division line when she jumped and I missed it, but later on my partner said that he saw her jump from the FC, as did one of the guys working the table. A few minutes later, a V player jumps to catch a pass but it deflects off of her hand and hits the floor, where she recovers it and then starts a dribble. Of course the braniacs from the H side were screaming for a double-dribble. I heard all the best lines for the rest of the game: "Take a certification test", "Get a rule book", "You need glasses".
The funny thing is that this was easily one of my two worst games of the year, and it also featured the worst fans of the season.
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