It's not often that a girls high school basketball game makes national attention. In fact, it's rare that many outside of the players and coaches and their families and friends even know how girls teams are doing.
But a recent match up between the Covenant School and Dallas Academy has been all over the news of late.
These two private schools in Texas played a game, a game that probably should not have been scheduled. The results of the game were a 100-0 score in favor of the Covenant School.
Now, there is pressure from all over for the Covenant School to forfeit the game. That's going too far.
The point of sports is to do your best. Win or lose, you give it your all. This same story comes up every time a college football powerhouse plays a smaller school with much less in the way of resources to recruit and train their players.
"Call off the dogs" is the cry. I say, if you don't want to get beat by 100, play some defense. Players will tell you that when you stop playing your hardest, that is when you are more likely to get hurt.
If I were from the Dallas Academy, I think I would be more offended at the forfeit than the 100 point beat-down. And any true competitor would feel the same way.
OK, I just rolled over and got my butt handed to me, but in the stat column, I win, and you lose? How is that right?
For the Covenant School to forfeit, is on the same page as not keeping score at little league games. It sends the wrong message.
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