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[Back In The Saddle]

Had a 1A (smallest size) girls JV/V double header tonight.

Like many very small schools, the home school fields both a JV and Varsity team. But state requirements don't allow the teams to both consist of the same players. So one girl sits out of the JV game and plays just the V game, so that the two teams are not the same.

When we arrived, we were informed that the visiting team had not arrived yet. I foolishly assumed they'd let us know when they arrived. Nope. I poked my door out the door a few minutes later to find the visiting team warming up and 14 minutes on the clock.

I messed up the new FT mechanic for the first time, backing out table side as L on one FT.

Called a FT violation for a defender being below the FTLE outside the 3PL. I haven't called one of those for years. I'd warned her during a FT a few minutes earlier. I guess she didn't get what I was saying.

The possession arrow was on the blink. Literally. Depending on how the timer wiggled the power cord it would blink on, then off. Mostly off. Got to keep the arrow in my head for two games.

The lights went out at 4:16 left in the 3rd quarter of the varsity game. It took about 15 minutes to get them back on.

As the lights started to come back on, the home girls were bored I guess and started chanting and cheering and dancing to entertain the crowd. Or maybe just to entertain themselves. HC turns to me and says, "I wish they'd put that much energy into playing."

The principal brought us dinner between games. Navajo tacos. Yummy.