Ya' gotta love spring league

[Mark Padgett]

Three sixth grade boys games yesterday. First game, team A scores the first 25 points of the game. Team B gets their first point on a technical foul FT because A1 reached over the endline and slapped the ball during a throw-in. B1 made one of two. Team A won the game 65-10.

Second game, both teams played "slow down" style. I loved it. Just getting to stand still for two or three minutes with the clock running is my kind of game. Team A eventually won 28-14. Fortunately, they had at least a 10 point lead in the last two minutes of the game so we didn't change from running clock to stop clock.

Third game was the best of all. Two hot moms at the scorer's table, one on the book, the other on the clock. I went to the table at virtually every break to "check something". A few times, one of them would motion for one of us to come over for a question so I made sure I responded before my partner did. Here's the best part - at halftime, hot clock mom pulled a bottle of water out of her purse and started to drink it. Hot book mom was turning around in her chair and accidentally bumped hot clock mom's arm so she spilled quite a bit of the water on her knit top. Need I say more? Oh yeah - the final score was team A something and team B something or other, I guess. All I know was the game didn't go in OT. I had mixed feelings about that.

Can't wait until next weekend. Maybe I'll get those same two teams.