Girls Basketball Team Wins 100-0
 

:eek::eek::eek: Bad sportsmanship or laying the wood down??

Girls Basketball Team Wins 100-0, Seeks Forfeit
Friday, January 23, 2009

DALLAS — A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 game has a case of blowout remorse.

Now officials from the winning school say they are trying to do the right thing by seeking a forfeit and apologizing for the margin of victory.

In a statement Thursday on The Covenant School's Web site, the head of school said, "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened." He went on to say that Covenant has made "a formal request to forfeit the game recognizing that a victory without honor is a great loss."

Last week Covenant, a private Christian school in Dallas, defeated Dallas Academy 100-0. Covenant was up 59-0 at halftime.

A parent who attended the game told The Associated Press that Covenant continued to make 3-pointers — even in the fourth quarter. She praised the Covenant players but said spectators and an assistant coach were cheering wildly as their team edged closer to 100 points.

"I think the bad judgment was in the full-court press and the 3-point shots," said Renee Peloza, whose daughter plays for Dallas Academy. "At some point, they should have backed off."
Dallas Academy coach Jeremy Civello told The Dallas Morning News that the game turned into a "layup drill," with the opposing team's guards waiting to steal the ball and drive to the basket. Covenant scored 12 points in the fourth quarter and "finally eased up when they got to 100 with about four minutes left," he said.

Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with "learning differences," such as short attention spans or dyslexia.

There is no mercy rule in girls basketball that shortens the game or permits the clock to continue running when scores become lopsided. There is, however, "a golden rule" that should have applied in this contest, said Edd Burleson, the director of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools. Both schools are members of this association, which oversees private school athletics in Texas.

"On a personal note, I told the coach of the losing team how much I admire their girls for continuing to compete against all odds," Burleson said. "They showed much more character than the coach that allowed that score to get out of hand. It's up to the coach to control the outcome."

Covenant coach Micah Grimes and head of school Kyle Queal did not immediately respond to messages left by The Associated Press on Thursday.

In the statement on the Covenant Web site, Queal said the game "does not reflect a Christ-like and honorable approach to competition. We humbly apologize for our actions and seek the forgiveness of Dallas Academy, TAPPS and our community."

Queal said school officials met with Dallas Academy officials to apologize and praised "each member of the Dallas Academy Varsity Girls Basketball team for their strength, composure and fortitude in a game in which they clearly emerged the winner." Civello said he appreciated the gesture and has accepted the apology "with no ill feelings."

At a shootaround Thursday, several Dallas Academy players said they were frustrated during the game but felt it was a learning opportunity. They also said they are excited about some of the attention they are receiving from the loss, including an invitation from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to see an NBA game from his suite.

"Even if you are losing, you might as well keep playing," said Shelby Hyatt, a freshman on the team. "Keep trying, and it's going to be OK."

Peloza said the coach and other parents praised the Dallas Academy girls afterward for limiting Covenant to 12 points in the fourth quarter. She added that neither her daughter nor her teammates seemed to dwell on the loss.

"Somewhere during that game they got caught up in the moment," Peloza said of the Covenant players, fans and coaches. "Our girls just moved on. That's the happy part of the story."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481854,00.html

Someobdy probably just wrote that down on a piece of paper or something because we all know that they dont really keep scores in any women games

Wow that's an asswhooping.

That Dallas team could use Herm. His "blame the players" Press conference strategy would work well with the team.

But, yeah, sounds like that dominant team should have backed off.

I covered a team a few years ago that beat another 110-11.

The 11 points they got were with their first teamers playing the third-teamers. First teamers from the winning team were pulled, literally, after the first 5 minutes of the game.

Pussification of America continues.
How about they practice and get better and try to get a win and learn from getting their asses kicked?

Kind of redundant in this case, don't you think?

F it.

It's High School. Get better or keep getting your ass beat. It's that simple.

After reading the story, I should add the team I covered did stop shooting 3-pointers after the first half, and stopped pressing at halftime.

Had to read the article, I was afraid it was a scrimage against the Chiefs or something...you think some of the butchey women on the team could have just LUCKED a basket in...or gotten themselves fouled or something.

This kind of puts their forfeit in to perspective, a bit:

"Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with "learning differences," such as short attention spans or dyslexia."

That is kinda where I am at although the winning coach should have pulled back the full court press as stated in the article. To me that is bad form, pull your team back and run your half court D or O and work on parts of the game that you have had trouble with this year. And if your 3rd string is still whooping them so be it but work on stuff and don't make getting to a 100 a priority.

I like the posts that tout the "life lesson" of getting your ass handed to you, but don't seem concerned about the other team not getting a lesson on winning with grace or exhibiting a pinch a sportsmanship.

Yea, because clearly their opponents were a good test of that defensive scheme.

Girls should not be playing basketball.

Way to put the hammer down on a group of girls who have problems bigger than winning basketball games.

Seems pretty obvious to me that Dallas Academy has no business even attempting to play competitive basketball. Drawing from a pool of 20 kids, all of whom have mental issues? That's just ****ing brilliant. :shake:

No shit.

It's a fine, Christian example...

Sorry, but its stupid. The losing team learns nothing, the winning team learns less. Yeah, let's press and shoot 3's in the fourth quarter on a team that is filled with mentally challenged folks.

Just damned brilliant. If my girl played on the winning team, she wouldn't be playing today.

There is more to life than slamming people less capable than you.

All future Oklahoma Sooners, no doubt...

On the one hand they should of not press too hard. The other hand the losing team don't want to think the winning team was taking it easy on them. This will only want to make the losing team try harder. I think they will be a better team for it.


P.s. I like womans basketball i have friends who playing for ku and ksu. They play hard and are exciting to watch.

Knowing that your team that hasn't won a game in 4 years isn't going to be competitive is one thing. Expecting some team with zero clue about sportsmanship to repeatedly stomp on your throat is something else.

They are kids trying to live a quasi-normal high school life with normal high school activities like sports. I can't fault them for that.

I don't feel sorry for the losing team. I feel sorry for the winning team. Those girls are now going to get a lesson about sportsmanship from the national media, when they should have been getting it from their coach. And I don't think the exposure is going to make them feel like the basketball demi-gods that they apparently thought they were on that particular night.

The coaching staff gets all the blame IMO. You can't blame the ladies for giving it their all and not letting up. That is what you are supposed to do.

That being said, the coach is well aware that the other team hasn't won a game in four years. Why press in the first place? He could have played a zone and won just as easily with a half court game.

Why throw down your full house when you can beat them with just a pair?

Oh look, the press found a convenient villain who we can lash out at with no consequence and who may actually pay a price for a stupid but overall harmless mistake which we know only exactly what the people reporting the story decide to tell us. And who is more deserving of our discerning compassion than the learning challenged who were beaten in basketball game.

Never mind that homeless person you passed on the way to work today who may have fought a war for your freedom. Or the families going homeless because greedy bankers found a way to make money off defaulted loans while our government bails them out with our tax money - or the millions of other real atrocities.

Break out the pitchforks and torches fellow townsfolk and get ready to storm the village, we have found our witch.

reminds me when pitt state hung 93 on rolla. They were trying not to score but rolla kept fumbling

So the winning team continued its full court press and bombing 3 pointers for the entire game while playing with an insurmountable lead against a bunch of "learning differences" challenged students.

Great. My suggested punishment would be for the winning team to be forced to play their choice of a professional NBA team, the players of whom would be awarded prize money (donated to their favorite charity) based on the margin of victory.

Unfortunately, I suspect even under those circumstances the NBA players would actually not have the heart to do what these pathetic girls did. Yeesh.

Dude our OCA girls just beat a team in OKC 77-17 on Tuesday night... And they had benchwarmers in all the second half...

They definitely need a mercy rule. Score enough points to start the running clock, put in the third-stringers, and get the game over with. I can't bash the losing team because they simply don't have enough talent.

The Covenant head coach is an absolute freaking douchebag...running a full court press and having his team bomb 3 point shots in the 2nd half then they were already up by 53 points and knew the other team had no chance.

Boy that's a lot of class there.

Can't really blame the players as they were just following instructions.

No point in Dallas Academy having a team either...seems like they're not gaining anything at all by having four winless seasons, etc.

Right, that's fine. Were they playing full court press and raining 3's at every opportunity?

Winning 100-0 isn't where the winners went wrong here. What went wrong was continuing to do everything possible to win by the greatest possible margin until they scored 100 points with 4 minutes left in the 4th quarter.

QFT.

Don't weep for the losers: The ones who have attention deficit disorder have already forgotten about this loss, and the ones who suffer from dyslexia couldn't correctly read the scoreboard and ensuing news articles about the game.

ROFL

OK, by the way. I just found out that the opposing school has 8 girls on its team, 20 girls in their entire school, and they have learning disabilities (like dyslexia, ADD and the like). This is pretty bad. I take all the other stuff back.

No shit. This really pisses me off.

Did you see what I just wrote? The losing school was for students who had learning disabilities.

Yeah, I missed this the first time I looked over the story...

This.

I'm still pissed off. Subjecting disabled kids to competition they don't have a prayer against is seriously wrong.

Why? Just because.........nevermind. I can't see arguing this out with you so I'll just say I disagree.

It's youth sports. get a grip

exactly.

This is the most tired drawn out phrase...

It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't always linked up with something that is idiotic to associate with the idea.

It is like rally cry for middle aged guys who are mad and have no idea why.

You are subjected to contact with females every day. You don't stand a chance with any of them, but nobody prevents you from trying.

There are some things that I agree this phrase could be used for, but not a mercy rule for a game played against kids with learning disabilities.

But don't write "Hitler" for a kid on a cake.......

That is a really good joke. But I think you should only be counting his mom. So really, he comes in contact with A single female, his mom.

the ones with dyslexia may very well have thought the score was 001-0.

Maybe teaching a little human compassion in the course of a high school basketball game would lend itself to those kids growing up to give a shit about someone other than themselves. In some ways, reporting stories like this one might shed some light on why no one in today's society cares about these "real atrocities".

By the way, update on the story is that the school has apologized. They've also canceled the the field trip scheduled for the "light puppies on fire" club.

Learning disabilities has nothing to do with playing basketball.

There is no mercy rule though....so what do you do? Do you want them to just run down to the opposite side of the court and sit there until the shot clock runs out? Miss shots on purpose? I'm not condoning what they did...but what do you expect them to do?

Exactly. A few posts on here make it sound like they were picking on special olympic kids or something.

I bet only half of the NBA can read.

Those bastards!

I'm betting half the NBA can not spell NBA......

Well, good for you, I guess. :spock:

Their is no shot clock in high school basketball. So they could have ran the clock out.

Seriously? You can't think of answer to your own question?

Here's a start....

1. Stop using the press
2. Stop shooting 3 pointers

Those are the obvious ones that you would probably see even at a NCAA div 1 level.

Then there are other things like just running down the shot clock on every possession.

There's a pretty wide margin between beating a team soundly, and pouring on an ass-kicking so brutal that it makes national headlines. Let's not pretend to be so stupid as to need the difference spelled out.

Yeah because that looks better. Let's just waste so much ****ing time that the game becomes one huge game of keep away.

They could have ran a stall offense.

I'm pretty sure if they wanted to, at halftime ask the opposing coach if he wanted to forfeit. I'm sure he probably would have. The winning teams coach is a heartless douchebag. I hope they make him the janitor next year and every day someone lays a big poop apple floating around in the toilet for him to clean up.

They should have just shut off the score board at half time.

Chill dude,

Just because there are much worse things doesn't mean we can't talk about the other smaller douchbag stories. :shake:

This is where sports can be bad.
The Dallas school is terrible, has been terrible, and always will be terrible. but you know what? Those girls get to put on a uniform and play two games a week. Many times that is good enough.
The Covenant team showed poor form in this score runup. They didn't get better doing it. They didn't learn anything from it. They simply got to be bullies for an evening.

A guy at my high school, who was a state caliber wrestler, set the school pin record (in time). It was against a girl who was wrestling in her first match. Do you think he is proud of that?

I'd much prefer to look back on my athletic career and be one of the girls who carried the opposing hitter around the bases last year (when she hit the HR, but got hurt...and her own teamates couldn't touch her, by rule), than any girl on this team.

Sports should be about getting better. High school sports should be about getting better, but also learning. No one in that winning lockerrroom learned a thing about sportsmanship.

The more I think about this, the more baffled I am that not a single player, asst. coach or parent had the class to tell the HC to cool it.

It's almost too cliche to be a hollywood script... the rich private religious school beating up on the school for problem kids.

Starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Denzel Washington.

And Tugg Speedman...

I think the biggest problem is that nobody involved acknowledges the basic fact that this tiny little school simply does not have enough bodies to field a competitive team. Period. Why does nobody get this? They have a 40% participation rate (8 out of 20) and still can't win a game, ever. Why roll these poor kids out as cannon fodder every game? It's just not right.

I'll bet continuing this disgrace has more to do with adults justifying their salaries than anything else.

Who Would Jesus Destroy?

I agree to a point only if it is a hated rival school..

But after being up 50-0 I would call the dogs off..

Well if it were against the WNBA they might have a chance..

Once I get down to the 3rd string kids after being up 50-0 I would have them run out the clock and take ridiculous shots from way beyond the arch.. And certainly not press..

I sure as hell can blame the ladies..they are old enough to know when enough is enough. If I was on a team playing against a group of kids with mental problems such as theres, I would plainly tell the coach that he needs to settle down with the pressing and shooting 3's. As a matter of fact, my freshman year in basketball we were playing a team and our coach was going for a hundred(beat the other team something like 84-6), pressing in the fourth and I told him to stop pressing or take me out. He said if I refused to play he'd sit me out the rest of the season and I told him that was fine, I didn't want to play for an asshole anyways. The other players recognized what I was doing and came out in support of me and we clearly stopped him from being a prick. Some places just don't have the talent level that others have, no reason to rub it in. That'd be like the USA invading Djibouti.

The coach for the winning team was fired yesterday after sending an email to the local newspaper saying he would not apologize, and his team played with class, and honor.

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/9134384?MSNHPHMA

I wonder if he can coach football.....at least they actually played "to win the game"

Herm might have found the perfect job opening... a place that will revere him for keeping the score down.

I love this PC World we live in:shake: