Posted on 11/03/2023 5:40:51 PM PDT by massmike
The “horror” of a field hockey player being struck in the face by a shot from a male on the opposing team has one local superintendent calling on the MIAA to revisit its guidelines that allow boys to play a girls’ sport.
Dighton-Rehoboth Superintendent Bill Runey is making the push after a male member on the Swampscott High girls’ field hockey team took a shot that hit the face of a female player competing for his regional district.
The brutal injury, coming from a corner play in the third quarter during Thursday’s state tournament matchup in Swampscott, caused the D-R player to be treated at a hospital for what Runey described as “significant facial and dental injuries.”
Males are allowed to participate on female teams in Massachusetts based on the state’s Equal Rights Amendment, according to the MIAA handbook.
Video shows the Swampscott player taking the corner, shooting the ball and in an instant, the D-R player squatting to the ground, screeching in pain. Her teammates are visibly shaken by the hit, with trainers rushing the field to care for the player.
Play stopped for roughly 10 minutes before it resumed.
The same player taking the shot for Swampscott scored both goals as the team defeated D-R in a 2-0 shutout.
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Boys.... Girls...
That is not the only issue!
A careful review of the video clearly shows that this was a deliberate attack at the “other skater’s” neck...
He needs to be charged with manslaughter, at a minimum...
I didn’t know running laps was a contact sport. Hope she healed well.
What’s the new way going to be?
Dighton-Rehoboth ?!?!?!?!
Swampscott ?!?!?!?!
Where the }{€££ do they come up with these “names” ???
Good Lord, no wonder these kids are confused.
Do they name their Dogs “allorettina three hundred and a what the heck is that thing” in this place ???
Goofy A$$€D Yankee’s.
I’m sure glad that I’m a Damned Yankee !!!
(for those that don’t know, A Damned Yankee is one that went South of the Massey-Dixie Line and never went back North.
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The purple haired class. And I assure you, they are master debaters.
Missing teeth are never fully healed. Bridges and implants require a lifetime of dental supervision and (sadly) revisions ( re-dos).
Going back to my high school years (1968-1971) certain sports were classified as female sports. Field Hockey was strictly female sport. Weird but LaCrosse was also strictly female physical education class along with Archry.
The DM found a video tape of the guy pulling the same move on another player two years earlier., but caught the guy off balance and he fell sideward head over heels.
females should simply shut down the competition by refusing to compete/
Agreed. Men shouldn’t be allowed to compete in women’s sports. But, this boy hit a ball into the girls’ face. Couldn’t a female player have caused the same injury? Just an honest question.
I’ve been watching a lot of old crime shows from the 70s on up. All these petite women beating up big burly criminals and only rarely bested in a fight?
Yeah, right. But this is why everyone thinks women are equal to men physically...
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