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H.S. Girls BBall Team Wins 100-0…Wants to Forfeit Victory!

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

So apparently an episode of One Tree Hill is threatening to come to life, and the girls’ basketball team from Texas high school The Covenant School is suffering crippling remorse after trouncing an unworthy adversary Dallas Academy 100-0 and wants to forfeit the game because they feel bad.

A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 game has a case of blowout remorse.

Now officials from The Covenant School say they are trying to do the right thing by seeking a forfeit and apologizing for the margin of victory.

“It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened,” Kyle Queal, the head of the school, said in a statement, adding the forfeit was requested because “a victory without honor is a great loss.”

The private Christian school defeated Dallas Academy last week. Covenant was up 59-0 at halftime.

A parent who attended the game told The Associated Press that Covenant continued to make 3-pointers — even in the fourth quarter. She praised the Covenant players but said spectators and an assistant coach were cheering wildly as their team edged closer to 100 points.

Awarding the demoralized team a pity win, would you say this is fanning the fire, fueling the fire, or is this jet-fueling the fire? You want to get these kids back a little self respect, where was the coach’s order to have one of the irrational teens take out some kid who went 10-15 from behind the arc with a cold-cock out of frustration. (If everyone directly involved is hell bent on making a teeny bopper drama out of this, I’m not going to be the one who reverts. No way.)

Rivals.com – School seeks to forfeit 100-0 win