Weird prep playoff endings

[HanSenSE]

A couple out here in Northern California over the last few days.

First, in girls basketball between Sacramento McClatchy and Stockton Lincoln. Video seems to be going viral.


Second in a Central Coast Section girls soccer game between Soledad and Watsonville Monte Vista Christian. Game tied 0-0 after regulation, so they play two 10-minute OTs. Still tied. So officials call for two 5-minute OTs. NHSF rule. Soledad scores for 1-0 win. But CCS rules call for PKs after the 10-minute OTs. MVC protests, wins, and two days after game, wins shootout 3-1.

 

[User 149557]

I was at a game in Northwest Indiana when a team from Chicago just walked off the court in the second quarter because they didn’t like the officiating, five minutes after threatening to leave the court and being convinced to keep playing.. My father-in-law, who coached for 40 years, turned to me and said, “Between the two of us, me coaching and you covering games, we’ve probably seen more basketball games than anyone else in here. That’s a new one for me.”

Everyone kinda sat there for 20 minutes and waited to see if they’d come back out. And then everyone wondered if they’d get their money back.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

A couple out here in Northern California over the last few days.

First, in girls basketball between Sacramento McClatchy and Stockton Lincoln. Video seems to be going viral.


Second in a Central Coast Section girls soccer game between Soledad and Watsonville Monte Vista Christian. Game tied 0-0 after regulation, so they play two 10-minute OTs. Still tied. So officials call for two 5-minute OTs. NHSF rule. Soledad scores for 1-0 win. But CCS rules call for PKs after the 10-minute OTs. MVC protests, wins, and two days after game, wins shootout 3-1.

the Stanford band sees nothing wrong with that play.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

A couple out here in Northern California over the last few days.

First, in girls basketball between Sacramento McClatchy and Stockton Lincoln. Video seems to be going viral.


Second in a Central Coast Section girls soccer game between Soledad and Watsonville Monte Vista Christian. Game tied 0-0 after regulation, so they play two 10-minute OTs. Still tied. So officials call for two 5-minute OTs. NHSF rule. Soledad scores for 1-0 win. But CCS rules call for PKs after the 10-minute OTs. MVC protests, wins, and two days after game, wins shootout 3-1.

OK, am I the only one that thought the red team was going to make the shot? That was disappointing.

 

[jr/shotglass]

The woman with the baby was the money shot, though. Although it would've been better had she drawn a charge.

 

[HanSenSE]

No replay. Wow. May be paywalled to some.
https://www.sacbee.com/sports/high-school/article258651818.html

 

[Spartan Squad]

No replay. Wow. May be paywalled to some.
https://www.sacbee.com/sports/high-school/article258651818.html

The section official deferring to the refs is a cheap cop out. It’s clear that game didn’t end properly. Play it out.

 

[Della9250]

Those refs should never work another playoff game. If not one can tell the difference between a shot clock and end of game time, as well as have a bench and fans run on the floor and not call something or stop play is inexcusable

 

[MileHigh]

That is epic fail by the officials. Gotta know the clock. We don't have a shot clock out here, but you've got to be aware of how much time is on the clock in situations like that. Unbelieveable.

 

[dixiehack]

This prep playoff game ended in a forfeit because the AHSAA wouldn’t flip bracket times to accommodate a Seventh Day Adventist school.

Oakwood Academy forfeits game, will not play on the Sabbath | rocketcitynow.com

 

[User 150927]

This prep playoff game ended in a forfeit because the AHSAA wouldn’t flip bracket times to accommodate a Seventh Day Adventist school.

Oakwood Academy forfeits game, will not play on the Sabbath | rocketcitynow.com

This is a huge fail by the association. If this school is a paying member association it follows that there should be a reasonable accommodation of their religious beliefs.

 

[MileHigh]

This is a huge fail by the association. If this school is a paying member association it follows that there should be a reasonable accommodation of their religious beliefs.

Agreed. And the teams playing at 7:30 p.m. agreed to play at 4:30 p.m. That story is lacking a comment from the association.

 

[Batman]

Last season one of our local teams was in a best-of-three softball playoff series. They lost Game 1 on the road and came home for a Game 2-3 doubleheader. They won Game 2 easily and were leading 9-3 in the sixth inning of Game 3 when the opposing coach pulled a rabbit out of her ass.

One of the local team's players hit a home run over the left field fence. The visitors dugout was on the third base side, and that's where the ball got returned to. Opposing coach noticed that the ball didn't have the right NFHS stamp on it and lodged a protest with the umps. Turns out the Locals had accidentally mixed in some BP balls with its game balls, and this one was apparently one of the former. Local coach insists (to this day) he isn't sure if it was a mix up or the ball that got returned was one that was hit over the fence in practice the previous day. And never mind that both teams were playing with the same balls, or that the umps who should have checked them said they were OK.

The state association upheld the protest and ruled that Game 3 needed to be replayed in its entirety. It went by the letter of the law and said it was an equipment violation, which calls for the game to be replayed. Of course, the Opposing team won the replayed game and advanced to the next round.

 

[HanSenSE]

Agreed. And the teams playing at 7:30 p.m. agreed to play at 4:30 p.m. That story is lacking a comment from the association.

There was a similar case of cluelessness about 10 years ago in Texas when an Orthodox Jewish school had a playoff game scheduled on a Friday night and the association (TAPPS, not UIL) was holding fast to the schedule. Don't recall how it ended.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

There was a similar case of cluelessness about 10 years ago in Texas when an Orthodox Jewish school had a playoff game scheduled on a Friday night and the association (TAPPS, not UIL) was holding fast to the schedule. Don't recall how it ended.

A few years after I graduated high school, my district, in all its (still-existing) idiocy, scheduled the homecoming football game on a Saturday that also happened to be Yom Kippur. And the opposing team came from a heavily Jewish area and said they would forfeit if they were made to play that day because they wouldn’t have enough players.

The people in my district were divided between “hey, a win’s a win,” and “why are these guys trying to ruin our homecoming?”, until the league got involved and made the teams play two days earlier instead.

 

[MileHigh]

 

[micropolitan guy]

Wow, that's horrible. Not even seeing how she travelled.

 

[Brian J Walter]

Average age of the officials in that video (and of prep officials everywhere): 94. That's a problem now because they're old and clueless. It's going to be a bigger problem in a few years when they don't exist.

 

[MileHigh]

Average age of the officials in that video (and of prep officials everywhere): 94. That's a problem now because they're old and clueless. It's going to be a bigger problem in a few years when they don't exist.

Been a problem for 10 years in every sport -- and nothing gets done by state associations.

 

[Brian J Walter]

Been a problem for 10 years in every sport -- and nothing gets done by state associations.

Oh, no doubt. They're cancelling JV games and combining JV and freshman teams because of the official shortage. And in fairness to the potential future officials, no chance I'm rolling out there for $75 a game to have a bunch of jackass parents scream at me all night then threaten to jump me in the parking lot.