Why did I take this game?

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Mark,
I had a 5/6 girls set a couple of weeks ago. The visiting team had 23 players on the 5th grade team and the team had never played a game before. It was also the caoch's first game of her life. When the coach told one of the girs to go see the referee and the girl asked the coach what a referee was I knew we were in for a long evening. They never took the ball out of bounds after a made basket. We had to line them up every free throw. We had at least 40,000 held balls. The first game took 1hr 45 minutes. Home won by 40+.

6th grade home had full court press all game. Home won by 38. I just remind myself that to the 10 girls on the floor it is the most important game in the world at the time. And I try to smile and laugh a lot.