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Rooster · 01-23-2009, 08:41 AM

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

EyePod · 01-23-2009, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Chiefnj2

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.

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.

plbrdude · 01-23-2009, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Chief Chief

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.

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

jspchief · 01-23-2009, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Otter

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.

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.

CoMoChief · 01-23-2009, 01:28 PM

Learning disabilities has nothing to do with playing basketball.

**The Franchise** · 01-23-2009, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Amnorix

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.

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?

Rooster · 01-23-2009, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by CoMoChief

Learning disabilities has nothing to do with playing basketball.

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.

**ChiTown** · 01-23-2009, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by jspchief

....... They've also canceled the the field trip scheduled for the "light puppies on fire" club.

Those bastards!

**ChiTown** · 01-23-2009, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Rooster

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.

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

Frazod · 01-23-2009, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by rad

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

Well, good for you, I guess.

lightsout04 · 01-23-2009, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by pestilenceaf23

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?

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

jspchief · 01-23-2009, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by pestilenceaf23

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?

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.

**The Franchise** · 01-23-2009, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by lightsout04

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

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

lightsout04 · 01-23-2009, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by pestilenceaf23

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.

**ShortRoundChief** · 01-23-2009, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by pestilenceaf23

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

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.

lightsout04 · 01-23-2009, 02:09 PM

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

01-23-2009, 08:41 AM
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