Lopsided scores

[Mark Padgett]

This weekend, I had a 7th grade boys game in one of the two spring leagues I'm working and it featured a team from the urban metro area here in Portland playing a team from a small rural community near the Oregon coast. At halftime, the score was 64-4. You can guess who was winning. The metro team coach came to the table at halftime and suggested we take the score off the board just so the other team wouldn't feel so bad (we still have to keep score on the sheet and turn it in after the game). We all agreed and he continued to put in restrictions on his team to try to keep the score down, i.e. making a lot of passes before each shot, pulling the ball back on breakaways, etc. It didn't matter. The final was 102-12! Part of the reason for this was his team got virtually every offensive and defensive rebound because of the size of his players. He had four players who were at least 6" taller than anyone on the other team.

BTW - the scorekeeper was a gal who looked like Sarah Palin. Talk about your hot moms! ROWRRR!

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

The scorekeeper was a gal who looked like Sarah Palin.

Could she see Russia from the scorer's table?

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Could she see Russia from the scorer's table?

I don't know. But she wore a short skirt at the table and I kept waiting for her to drop her pencil so I could bend over and pick it up for her.

In one of the other games, it was a 4th grade team against what was supposed to be another 4th grade team (yeah - this spring league starts at that grade) but they looked much younger and were much smaller. I'm sure they had a significant percentage of 3rd graders and maybe even younger. The bigger team won the game 56-5. Imagine going 44 minutes of running time and scoring only 5 points.

Oh yeah, before the game, one of the "bigger" 4th graders asked me if there was a rule against dunking. He was laughing as he asked it. I told him that if he dunked the ball, I'd give his team 10 points. He stopped laughing and said, "Really?" I just nodded.