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7 replies · 1,268 views · Started 07 March 2003

Hrmmm.........

Sorry about this....

It�s not a good time to be on the girls basketball team at Lakeshore Public Academy.

Lakeshore Public Academy in Hart, MI lost a heartbreaker to Walkerville High. Well, that�s not exactly true. They got the crap beat out of them 115-2. Not 115-102, but 115 to 2. That�s a spread of 113 points.

115 to 2?!

Well at least they got two points. You would�ve hated for that game to get out of hand. At least they got two. You would�ve hated to see that turn into a rout. Seeing as the game started out close in the first half at 0-0, you never want to see it get away.

115-2? Are you kidding me? I don�t know what�s more amazing�that one team managed to score 115 or the other team only scored 2.

The �star?player for Lakeshore, Melissa Hawley said that she and her teammates were giving their best.

�We never gave up, they were just a lot better than we were.?br>
Melissa Hawley

Uh, yes Melissa, they were 113 points better than you. And not that I would encourage anyone to quit in a sporting sense, but Lake Shore should have quit. There�s nothing to learn losing by 113 points. That doesn�t build character. That doesn�t do anybody any good. Walkerville doesn�t get any better and Lake Shore doesn�t get any better.

Look, I know somebody has to win and somebody has to lose. It�s sports, it�s competition. But it�s high school, not the NBA. You learn how to accept defeat graciously in a loss. You learn sportsmanship and how to deal with it. But none of that is learned losing by 113 points.

What does a coach tell his players after a game like that? The coach shouldn�t have put his team in that position. You don�t learn anything by being embarrassed by 113 points.

And in place of a ball they had a very powerful magnet attracted to the basket, but whose attraction turned to repulsion for several seconds after each contact.

That's like a damn basket every few seconds. . . how could that ever happen?

Our high school team once won a football (American football) game by 69-0. It was ended about half a quarter early because either everyone got tired of it, or the officials wanted to report a score of 69-0.