Last game of the high school season and it was a dozy.

[Stat-Man]

Must be something about overtimes this week. I had my first overtime game last night in what should be my season finale (girls JV). Near the end of regulation, V requests a timeout. Official book says they have none even though neither my partner nor I were notified, and the scoreboard shows both teams have one timeout left. Although it wasn't by the book, Home offered to call his final timeout instead and my partner allowed that. The up side: my partner and I knew both teams were out of timeouts at that point.

Visitors get a basket to tie and a foul -- and miss the free throw which leads us into overtime. Visitors go on to get the game winning basket in the closing seconds of overtime. I also happened to see the varsity game also went to overtime as well.

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Side question: Is it good game management to ask the table if both teams still have timeouts (yes or no) to help avoid this late in the game? I'd like to learn from what happened last night, and try to avoid it in the future as much as possible.