has anyone ever officiated a shut-out

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I have had three games in my career where the losing team failed to hit double digits. Two of the games were girls' H.S. varsity games (one in Michigan and one in Ohio), both teams were blown out by more than eighty points. The third game was a YBOA Girls' National Championship pool play game (11U) where the losing team got beat by over eighty points in that game too.

I did have one game (first game of the day at this particular sight on the first day of the tournamen) in a AAU Boys' (14U) National Invitational Championship pool play game where the final score was 110 to 10. The worst part about that game was that these two teams where in the only five-team pool in the tournament meaning that that one of the teams in the pool had to play two games in one day during pool play. The winning team (from FL) played again that evening. The Dir. of Off. always does a great job of making sure that an official does not see the same team twice during pool play. BUT, the Tourn. Dir. did not tell the Dir. of Off. that the had changed the schedule and guess who was one of the officials for the winning team's second game? Me, . And it did not go well; the team from FL was playing a team from NJ. The FL players game out with the attitude, based on their morning game, that everybody should just lay down before them and give up; the only problem was that the NJ team had the attitude that they belonged on the same court and the team from FL. My partner and I each had TF's on players from teh FL team during the first half. Late in the fourth quarter, with the FL team losing by about five points, my partner called a foul on the player he had T'ed up in the first half and this foul immediately led to the player getting to a second TF. This led to the player's HC running out on the court yelling at me about my partner's call on his player, while I was T'ing him up, that player who had just received his second TF decided to throw the PowerAide Jug (you know those big one that they use to dump drink and ice on the winning Super Bowl coach) on to the court. Game over, we are out of there, .

The best part of this mess was the FL coach accused my and my partner from being from NJ; my partner was a pretty good local offical (who I had officiated with before) from FL, .

MTD, Sr.