It's Over

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

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, ).

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, ,) 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, , 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.