Last Second Foul

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by SE Minnestoa Re

Boy, it sure appears people get fired up for 8th grade ball. What is it going to be like when the games actually count?

Around here, with our Catholic middle school league, the eighth grade "varsity" games actually do count. Won lost records are maintained during the season. A regular season champion is crowned. All teams are seeded for a league tournament. A league tournament champion is crowned. The top two teams from the league tournament go to the state tournament. The top teams from the state tournament go to the New England tournament.

Same thing with the sixth, and seventh, grade "junior varsity" teams.

"Junior varsity B" teams, below sixth grade, keep won lost records, but that's as far as it goes, no league champion is crowned, no post season tournaments.

As far as I'm concerned, any game, in any sport, in which they keep score, and end up with a winning team, and a losing team, "counts". If the games didn't count, they wouldn't need officials.