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Originally Posted by crosscountry55
In some states (OK comes to mind), varsity boys games almost always follow varsity girls games.
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I don't know if this was done across all of Oklahoma, but this was actually changed up at my school and the other local schools when I was in high school. We always played after the girls until my junior year, at which point we alternated the order of the games. The issue was that the girls games were so poorly attended that there was fear that someone might perceive the girls followed by boys scheduling to be evidence of an inequity between genders and thus a Title IX issue. I think part of the issue was that the gate was actually divided between the boys and girls programs depending on when the tickets were bought.
Returning to the topic at hand, shortening the quarters is allowed under 5.5.3:
"A quarter(s) may be shortened in an emergency or at any time by mutual agreement of the opposing coaches and referee. Playing time and number of quarters for non-varsity game quarters may be reduced by mutual agreement of opposing coaches".
Given that a coach complained, it doesn't sound like everybody agreed in this situation. This rule also doesn't support a "sudden death period", although I suppose both coaches could have agreed that once one team scored they would then agree to shorten the period at that time to a tenth of a second (the rule specifies the quarter may be shortened "at any time") and then just allow the time to expire. Beyond the OP, I've never seen anything like this and I can't imagine I ever will, but there is at least a theoretical way to do this within the rules withstanding the objection made by those that would would point out that this rule specifies a quarter may be shortened and thus this does not apply to an extra period (which I think is an argument that could be successfully taken up from either side).