Roughest game this season - and it was girls!

[Mark Padgett]

Had three HS girls rec games yesterday. The first two went fairly well, although I did T up a coach (so what's new?). The third game, however, was totally different. The two teams had fairly tall girls in the post and at the forward positions so they kept fighting for post and rebounding position. My partner and I called quite a few fouls in the first half - double bonus both ways, but that was just a precursor of what was to come. About three minutes into the second half, A1 in the post throws an elbow into the face of B1 and knocks her down. Partner calls a flagrant. About a minute later, B1 does the same thing to A2 - I guess she was trying to retaliate. I tossed her. Within another ten minutes, we had almost 20 foul calls, four were intentional and another two were flagrant. During all this, we spoke with both coaches twice and told them to get their teams to knock it off. It didn't work. We thought about just calling the game, but we didn't know how the league would react to that, so we decided to just continue to call all the fouls and hope that everyone would foul out. Finally, the clock ran out and I got to go home. Before I left, I wrote a report on the back of the score sheet that is picked up by a league representative later in the day.

The only "good" news was that all the fouls didn't make the game longer. It was running clock.

[grunewar]

I had a GV game last yr where the team's wouldn't cooperate either.

At half-time we talked about how we were in the bonus earlier in the 1st quarter than any of us could remember. We too agreed to continue to call it tight in hopes that the team's would adjust in the second half.

Not so much......

As I recall, in the second half, we were in the bonus EVEN QUICKER than the first half! Unreal. We were all just shaking our heads.

What's the ole expression, "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig."

Nothing much we could do. GIGDGO.

[referee99]

Salvation.

[SCalScoreKeeper]

Sounds like a regular season game I had a few years ago where a total of 54 fouls were called In that one there was only one technical issued to a visiting team's assistant coach.

[TimTaylor]

Originally Posted by SCalScoreKeeper

Sounds like a regular season game I had a few years ago where a total of 54 fouls were called In that one there was only one technical issued to a visiting team's assistant coach.

Got you beat....had a sub-varsity boys game 3 years ago where we called 63 fouls - and could have easily called twice that.

[SCalScoreKeeper]

Yikes-that must've been one long afternoon.Was it part of a doubleheader?

[Mark Padgett]

Finished this rec season this afternoon with three 5/6 girls games. Previously, I posted that earlier this rec season, I came to the gym and was told the game that had just finished (HS girls) had a final score of 64-4. I thought that was an incredibly weird score. Well - the first game I had today had a final score of 64-4! As the game came to a close, I kept looking around for the Candid Camera crew. I mean, what are the odds.

Oh yeah - the second game finished 55-11 but the third game was fairly close. Now, no games until December 3rd.

[klacc]

It is always sad when there are so many fouls. Why can't the players just enjoy playing the game?