Whew...tough one tonight

[jdw3018]

Ugly girls game. Probably not 100% on top of my game, and V coach is pretty constant in his griping. Combine all those and made for a long 32 minutes of game time. Felt like tonight, every time I moved for a better look, I ended up moving the wrong way. Out of control girls didn't help.

Should have shut the coach down, but he mainly worked my partner about me rather than me directly.

Boys game following was great. Didn't hear four total comments all night, game was mostly double digits all night, though V kept it interesting and got it back to 6 or 7 in the 4th before losing by about 15. Had no problems until the very end.

H leading late, about 20 seconds left after they score. V1 bringing the ball up the court with pressure from H1 who is playing tight but good defense. Some contact, could have been a foul, but I allow them to attempt to play through it at this point. I wish I'd just called it, though, as V1 ends up pushing off very noticeably and I have to go get the PC foul. V Coach, who hadn't said two words to me all night is not happy. Neither am I.

I'm not big on game management fouls, but calling the marginal contact by H1 up 15 points with 20 seconds left prevents all of this.

Thank goodness I'll live to fight another day.