Play noon Ball at the Y every other day.....I am 45 and have had meniscus repaired in my left knee....wear a brace when I play and when i ref. Don't play when I have to ref that night...can't do it anymore. Get a cortisone shot in my knee once every 4 months to keep it lubricated. Doctor says it is better to keep active rather than develop arthritis in my knee. Have an ALUMNI tourney coming up at the end of the month.....3 days of ball (and beverage). Best part is my regular partners ref that tourney and i get to yell at them!!!

Well in 24 hours my season will be done. Even though it will be over, this is the great time of year. A lot of basketball to watch. ;)

Peace

I'm done.

I was ranked #1 in my provincial finals tournament! I am humbled for that. Hard work pays off! Now to show my interest in the Nationals...

You can have a curly W tat on your forehead...

I've got a full 72 hrs left and then I can call it a season too - I think (that darn Arbiter keeps putting more games in it every time I check). :p

Tonight, I have a local HS vs MS Faculty Fund Raiser game which is always fun.

Tomorrow I do two rec league championship games and on Sunday it's two men's rec league "tournament" games.

Then I believe the wife is dusting off the "honey-do list" again!

Our (MTD, Jr. and I) JrHS/HS season ended this past Wednesday evening. We had both the 7th grade and 8th grade girls' championship games for a league we officiate in in Michigan; blowouts in both games.

The Official Scorekeeper (Home team scorer) in the 7th grade game told us at halftime that officials in Michigan do NOT call three-, five-, and ten-second violations in 7th grade girls games; I had called two Closely Guarded violations against her team (her team was the team betting blown out, :p).

The Host school was the Home team in the 8th grade game and they got blown out too. Evidently, Junior and I were homers (we are from Ohio and the two teams are from Michgian, :p,) for the Visitors because the foul total in the first half was 9 fouls against the Home team to 0 against the Visitors before Mark finally called a foul against the Visitor's star player; we were told before the game that this player was completely deaf and she proceeded to score 12 pts in the first quarter alone and was at least 7 from 8 from the FT Line in the first half (she was a very good forward both offensively and defensively). The foul totals for the first half was H--14 (the Home fans kept a very loud verbal total; we were suprised that Michigan people could count past 10 without taking their shoes and socks off, LOL, Go Buckeyes!) and V--5. The amazing thing, :eek:, is that we never got close to the bonus for either team in the 2nd half (Go figure?).

MTD, Sr.

P.S. Our season ends at the end of the month with the Ohio Special Olympics State Tournament Final Four (two semi-final games, one 3rd place game, and one championship game; all three-man crews), in New Philadelphia, Ohio. There Final Fours in 5 divisions at the State Tournament.

Let Me Be Brave in the attempt."
 

I've got a few Special Olympics Unified Games this coming weekend. A nice way to end my season.

Let Me Be Brave In The Attempt ...
 

I've got the Connecticut Special Olympics Unified Games coming up next weekend. A nice way to end my season.

I'm done.

3rd round girls game last night. Season ended earlier than I would've liked, but I had a nice year. Last night's game was 21-12 visitors at half and the home team outscored the visitors 31-9 in the second half to win going away.

Packed gym, nice atmosphere. Nothing much to talk about, to be honest.

Total dates for the year: 58. 7 junior college, 1 varsity reserve, 50 varsity.

Baseball season starts in 13 days with a HS DH.

Everyone enjoy the rest of the season. I'll be moving my basketball stuff to the basement and the baseball stuff up in the next few days.

I'm also done.

I was selected to work the Oregon 5A tourney....and was assigned a girls quarterfinal, a boys quarter final, and a boys consolation bracket semifinal.

The last day's games are assigned the night before based on evaluations made over the first 3 days. I was hoping to get at least the boys 3rd place game or maybe the girls championship game....but I didn't find my name there....i was looking to see where I was only to find my name on the boys championship game.....it was completely unexpected and I was shocked and speechless.

It followed, but was entirely different than, the 16-7 girls championship game that was mentioned in another thread (http://forum.officiating.com/basketb...tml#post831366).

It was a great game with a big crowd. I am only mad that we let a FT shooter switch on us and not get caught, I had sent the right guy to the line and somewhere between him going there to start with, and when my partner administered the FT, they swapped. They had similar numbers (21 vs. 24) and I didn't catch it. :mad:


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