What state am I in?

[Mark Padgett]

OK - usually I'm in the state of utter confusion. But, it seemed like that anyway tonight.

This afternoon I got a call to see if I could do some games at The Hoop in Vancouver, WA. It's about 25 miles from my house, but I hadn't reffed in two whole days and I needed the exercise, so I said yes.

However, when I got there, I was assigned to do two boys varsity games in which each of the four teams was from the PIL (Portland Interscholastic League), the main league in Portland. Not only that, my partner was from the Portland association.

Whazzap with that?

I asked the assignor why we couldn't just do these games at The Hoop in Beaverton, OR, which is about 7 minutes from my house. He just shrugged.

Since I have been working girls games the past few weeks, it was refreshing to do games in which there weren't 50 jump balls, 30 fouls for slapping and 150 - 3 second violations.