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.