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!