For shame, for shame, for shame.
MSHSAA
That's kinda fun to 'say'. I've heard it as 'Mah Shah Shah'... it's the governing board for Missouri High School Athletics.. Missouri State High School Athletic Association.
I guess, a couple of nights ago, Principia High School defeated Highland High School in a Girls Basketball, Class 3, Sectional game, 46-45.
Or, so they thought.
Apparently, the folks manning the scorebook, at some point in the 3rd quarter, gave Principia one more point than was actually scored on a basket. Proper procedure is to, Stop Children Whats That Sound, Everybody Look What's Going Down.
No, that ain't it. Well, kinda sorta. I guess the proper thing to have done was to sound the buzzer, call the refs over, get the scorebook and the scoreboard to match, resume play.
That didn't happen. It sounded messy... it was brought to ref attention at halftime.. I guess they checked the official book, somehow by then, it matched the scoreboard. They did not check the visitor's book or the home team's book, which, didn't match and which the refs WERE SUPPOSED TO CHECK.
Video evidence after the fact confirmed an error was made, but, because a proper protest was not carried out (or something like that, perty please, just trust me, they goofed and I gotta breakfast to go to and I don't wanna be late!).. anyways, they couldn't deduct a point, call it a tie, then, have em resume in the form of an overtime.....
Sooooooooo... tonight (I think) yellow busses will once again roll.. basketball players, coaches, managers, cheer folks and their poms will hop on... . parents, aunts, uncles, owners of Casey's (I assume there'll be one, aint there one in every smalltown) will buy gas that's now higher (VICTOR! Sorry, kinda) and......
They will restart the game with 48 seconds remaining in the 3rd quarter, Highland ahead 34-29. Yain't gotta pay to get in.... if you choose to stay home, it's free on whadever the MSHSAA TV channel is (I think it's normally ten bucks).. Different refs. Principals in charge of discipline will sit RIGHT BEHIND scorebook people... I made that part up.
And play ball........
Facebook recount of the recount........ there's like 40 comments now, ranging from "This blows my mind"... to "WOW" to "this happened before with Principia, hmmmmm".. 'Good for MSHSAA for getting it right".... and your normal "Tastes Great - Less Filling" dependent upon which team you root for... but my favorite was........
"I’ve never known this to happen before. Is there a statute of limitations? If not, Edina Girl’s-vs-Baring Girl’s 7/8 Grade Elementary Tournament’71-‘72 should be restarted in 3rd quarter when the foul was assigned in error to Cheryl Reed fouling her out. Baring Freshman Girls were in charge of the clock and books. Do you guys remember this?
I’d love to see 69-66 year olds playing a quarter of basketball!! I WOULD TOO! LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Back to the blog... my thought when I woke up....... a blog about "Things that make me feel good"
First feel good I read today started very sad (in the '30's, I think) a racially motivated bus bombing... a little girl was the only white onlooker who assisted the folks injured on the bus. The town ostracized her. Sadly, it was a different, highly incorrect day and age. She grew up to continue a lifetime of care, concern in the medical field. I felt good after I read that.
Then, Ricky Fowler, PGA golfer, won some Arnie Palmer "Good Guy": award for his work with youth. Ricky's golf game hadn't been great, he was down for a long time, it's finally coming back around, he's a good dude, and he spoke glowingly of his love for Arnie and how much he positively impacted his life... and this, in front of Palmer's relatives... Again, I felt good after reading.
Then, the scoring errror... and the thought of hopefully seeing 60+ year old grannies playing some hoop... another feel good.
And finally, for you perverts... I honestly did think of "Quickies" to add to the list of things that make one feel good. But, who's keeping score ya know?
Love, Victurd
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