Posted on 01/24/2011 12:42:55 PM PST by greatdefender
It's been called unsportsmanlike. It's been called ugly. The question now is whether Christian Heritage (Utah) High, which routed West Ridge (Utah) Academy, 108-3, in a girls basketball game last week, actually did anything wrong by blowing out an overwhelmed opponent.
The stunning scoreline -- from a varsity game in which Christian Heritage reportedly never used a full-court press -- nearly defies belief. As reported in the Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune, Christian Heritage scored 28 points per quarter for the first three periods and 24 in the fourth, providing a consistent average of nearly two baskets per minute across the entire game. The Crusaders shut out West Ridge (pictured above running on to the court for the team's game following the rout) for the first three quarters, and Christian Heritage starter Josi Rydin even racked up a unique triple-double, with exactly 10 points, 10 rebounds and 10 steals.
"I don’t know why the score was that high, or what the point was," Jamie Keefer, West Ridge’s athletic director and a coach for the girls’ team, told the Salt Lake Tribune. "I don’t think it would’ve happened that way if it were the other way around."
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Still, could have been a lot worse, thanks to the 3 point rule it was a bit closer!
And they thought *losing* was bad.
Should there be mercy rules in other sports?
I think the point was Jamie, that your team sucks.
I just call it a good old-fashioned ass whoopin'.
The coach of the winning team is no doubt one of the biggest a-holes on the planet.
Sounds like a sore loser to me. Losing 108-3 means the girls should have played harder.
evidently West Ridge didn’t have a real team and should have never taken the court.. their athletic director needs to answer to that
At the very least, it doesn’t sound very Christian like
The losing team should have just thrown in the towel earlier. They are the ones that wasted everyone’s time when it got to 55-3.
Or maybe the losing girls didn’t care, and just played at some point just for fun?
It isn’t a crime against humanity or anything ... but running up the score that bad in an amateur athletic situation is a bit obnoxious.
SnakeDoc
Why?
I read the article - he didn’t have enough players to take his starters out permanently, and he didn’t want to insult the opponent by intentionally stopping scoring.
So - what should he have done? Forfeit so the other team felt better about themselves?
The winning team was supposed to take a dive? I don’t get it.
You know, we’re tempted to complain about how “mean” and “unsportsmanlike” this is, but if we were to have the same sort of lopsided victory in, say, a war or something, we’d be ecstatic.
When you win, you win. You play to win, you fight to win, and you always try to crush the enemy.
Basketball isn’t football, where you can decide to simply run the ball instead of throwing bombs when you are way ahead.
What would you have the winning team do, just intentionally pass the ball to the other team. They probably had a shot clock, should they have just let the shot clock expire?
The only question it raised for me is why West Village has a girls basketball team in the first place.
Can you imagine how borring that must have been for the spectators?
I mean, girls basketball is bad enough, but a blow out like that?
If only we took that approach during Gulf War I.
Why do we automatically look to criticize the winning coach when the losing coach is obviously incompetent.
Neither one is particularly praise worthy but the loser is no victim.
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