8th grade girls game. Two schools 5 miles apart. Early in the 4th quarter 3 girls dive for a loose ball. Girl from visiting team hits her head on a knee or floor.She is bleeding, has a goose egg, and an eye thats starting to turn black pretty quickly. We stop the game and clear the floor. Ans EMT in the stands comes out to attend to her. I went and asked for the school AD to take them some ice. The teams walk out ready to resume the game. We did. We have a shooting foul in a few seconds and line up to shoot two. I look over and the girl is lying in front of the bench on the floor OOB still being attended to. Home coach walks over and asks us to stop the game until they are through attending to her, which I had already decided to do. I thought they had taken her to thelocker room. Visiting assistant coach says, "Oh yeah, that's real convenient since we're at the line." His player is crying, bleeding, & probably has a mild concussion because she is dazed and confused. We wait for an ambulance to arrive and take her. All the while this clown is upset that we stopped the game with his player at the line. Unbelievable! He told us all more about himself as a human being than he realized that night!
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