WIERD SITUATION

[TXMATTHEW05]

I'm an official varsity scorer. This was a home game, and although some of you may think I'm "just a scorer", I know enough to officiate - I will get certified in August. But anywho, here's the situation.

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G21 on breakaway. Clearly fouled by W15. As the official reports, he puts foul on G21. We give him a funny look, and then he says - "Sorry, sorry, WHITE 21, push"

The thing was, that was a completely incorrect call. White 21 was at the other end of the court. Shortly after, the quarter ended, and we called the head referee over. He says the guy blew the call, and he doesn't know if it's correctable or not. He talks to the other official that made the call at half time, and he swears up and down that it was correct. Before the second half, the head referee comes back and says that he agrees with us, but he doesn't know if it's correctable or not. He then talks about if I (the scorer), ever has a question about a call, to stop and talk about it. Now I'm not going to do that if the call goes against the home team, but if it was a clear mistake (as above), then I will, yes, do it again. The girls lost by about 10 points, and the girl the foul was put on fouled out, which may have made a difference.

The next night, I got a second opinion from a different referee. He agreed with the head referee, and said as official scorer, I have the authority to change the book if I feel something is wrong. I guess I have more authority then I thought.

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Now, the referee that called that foul is an idiot. No offense; I NEVER yell at a referee for any calls, what-so-ever (one exception, I'll tell about it later), but this guy DOES NOT know what he was doing. He never makes his calls right, his mechanics suck; he's just a bad referee. I understand what you guys are going to say, but he was just THAT BAD. Don't bite my head off - you'd of had to of been there. But what is your opinion on this?