It never ends

[Mark Padgett]

Just got an email from an assignor this morning to work a girls HS program during June. It's one night a week and three games on that night. What's a little strange is that there are two "divisions" - V and Frosh/JV, and the V games are 16 minute stop time halves and the Frosh/JV games are 20 minute running halves. I have no idea why they have different rules for that. The good news is that each team gets only two 60s and one 30 for the game.

Also, they're not keeping individual foul counts - but the game rules state "this league is not designed to turn into a hack-fest". I guess that means if someone is fouling excessively and without restraint, we toss her.

The players are almost all exclusively from one conference (usually regarded as the top girls league in the state) and the games are at four different high schools, but I get to work only at the one that's closest to my house (about a 20-25 minute drive). With the price of gas these days, that's a big deal.