First high school game!

[Back In The Saddle]

Finally got to work my first high school game this week! Needless to say, I was excited. Sophomore boys game. It was also my partner's first HS game. That was both good and bad, I think. Good in that I had to step up and be a leader. I didn't feel like a new guy because we were both new I was the one who knew the most about the pre-game rituals, etc. Bad in that I was counting on my partner, who should have been a grizzled veteran, to set the tone for how tight we'd call it. He preferred to let a lot of contact go in the post, and a lot of hand checking, and sadly I followed suit. By the end, I was unhappy with how that part went. But overall, things went very well. It was a lot of fun. Only T'd one coach Am looking forward to my next one.

One question: who is responsible for alerting the visiting team when it's time to return after half time? At 0:30 left on the clock, we talked to the home coach and he sent somebody to get them.