Good or bad sportsmanship?

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Jimgolf

The losing coach has no business complaining about anything other than his poor job in preparing his team. He's likely to get further experience against tough teams and he should be worrying more about that than about a misguided but well-intentioned attempt at keeping the score down.

It wasn't that they weren't well prepared. They just don't have any talent, speed and/or size. It's a shame they are in this level of play. This league is pretty competitive, even at that grade and gender. It's 6th grade and their city is somewhat smaller than the others, so their talent pool is smaller.