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School seeks to forfeit 100-0 win

Associated Press
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DALLAS -- 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.


Samantha Peloza grabs a rebound in practice a week after their 100-0 loss.
"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.

"I think the bad judgment was in the full-court press and the 3-point shots," said Renee Peloza, whose daughter plays for Dallas Academy. "At some point, they should have backed off."

Dallas Academy coach Jeremy Civello told The Dallas Morning News that the game turned into a "layup drill," with the opposing team's guards waiting to steal the ball and drive to the basket. Covenant scored 12 points in the fourth quarter and "finally eased up when they got to 100 with about four minutes left," he said.

Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with "learning differences," such as short attention spans or dyslexia.

There is no mercy rule in girls basketball that shortens the game or permits the clock to continue running when scores become lopsided. There is, however, "a golden rule" that should have applied in this contest, said Edd Burleson, the director of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools. Both schools are members of this association, which oversees private school athletics in Texas.

"On a personal note, I told the coach of the losing team how much I admire their girls for continuing to compete against all odds," Burleson said. "They showed much more character than the coach that allowed that score to get out of hand. It's up to the coach to control the outcome."

In the statement on the Covenant Web site, Queal said the game "does not reflect a Christ-like and honorable approach to competition. We humbly apologize for our actions and seek the forgiveness of Dallas Academy, TAPPS and our community."

Covenant coach Micah Grimes did not immediately respond to a message left by The Associated Press on Thursday.

Queal said school officials met with Dallas Academy officials to apologize and praised "each member of the Dallas Academy Varsity Girls Basketball team for their strength, composure and fortitude in a game in which they clearly emerged the winner."

Civello said he appreciated the gesture and has accepted the apology "with no ill feelings."

At a shootaround Thursday, several Dallas Academy players said they were frustrated during the game but felt it was a learning opportunity. They also said they are excited about some of the attention they are receiving from the loss, including an invitation from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to see an NBA game from his suite.

"Even if you are losing, you might as well keep playing," said Shelby Hyatt, a freshman on the team. "Keep trying, and it's going to be OK."

Peloza said the coach and other parents praised the Dallas Academy girls afterward for limiting Covenant to 12 points in the fourth quarter. She added that neither her daughter nor her teammates seemed to dwell on the loss.

"Somewhere during that game they got caught up in the moment," Peloza said of the Covenant players, fans and coaches. "Our girls just moved on. That's the happy part of the story."
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Yall thinki they should forfeit?
 
Unapologetic coach of 100-0 win fired by school

Unapologetic coach of 100-0 win fired by school

Associated Press
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DALLAS — The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper saying he will not apologize "for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity."

Kyle Queal, the headmaster for Covenant School, said in The Dallas Morning News online edition that he could not answer if the firing was a direct result of coach Micah Grimes' e-mail disagreeing with administrators who called the blowout "shameful."

Queal did not immediately answer phone messages or e-mail from The Associated Press.

On its Web site last week, Covenant, a private Christian school, posted a statement regretting the outcome of its Jan. 13 shutout win over Dallas Academy. "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christlike and honorable approach to competition," said the statement, signed by Queal and board chair Todd Doshier.

Grimes, who has been criticized for letting the game get so far out of hand, made it clear in the e-mail Sunday to the newspaper that he does not agree with his school's assessment.

"In response to the statement posted on The Covenant School Web site, I do not agree with the apology or the notion that the Covenant School girls basketball team should feel embarrassed or ashamed," Grimes wrote in the e-mail, according to the newspaper. "We played the game as it was meant to be played. My values and my beliefs would not allow me to run up the score on any opponent, and it will not allow me to apologize for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity."

A phone number for Grimes could not be located by The Associated Press. The Dallas Morning News said Grimes did not respond to their repeated e-mail requests for a telephone interview.

There was no answer at a number listed for Doshier.

A parent who attended the game said 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.

Covenant was up 59-0 at halftime.

Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with "learning differences," such as short attention spans or dyslexia.

There is no mercy rule in girls basketball that shortens the game or permits the clock to continue running when scores become one-sided. There is, however, "a golden rule" that should have applied in this contest, Edd Burleson, the director of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, said last week. Both schools are members of this association, which oversees private school athletics in Texas.

The story has received national attention, and the Dallas Academy team has been recognized for refusing to give up during the lopsided contest.
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This is BS. It would have been completely diff had he cheated or something but he won fair and square
 
I didn't know that you you're only supposed to beat your opponents by a certain margin. I was always taught that you do your best.
 
^ I asked a co-worker who is athletically oriented and he said that he agrees that the team won dishonorably. He said that it isn't patronizing to dumb down your game because the other team already knows they suck. He didn't really have a logical explanation and just said "it's etiquette".
 
not if its the only win they get for the season.

dont wanna be the detroit lions of high school christian basketball.
 
Damien said:
^ I asked a co-worker who is athletically oriented and he said that he agrees that the team won dishonorably. He said that it isn't patronizing to dumb down your game because the other team already knows they suck. He didn't really have a logical explanation and just said "it's etiquette".
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playing football, my coach never paid attention to margain. He always brought up the Oilers comeback to Buffalo. He played he defense and offense however he wanted to play regardless if we were up by 21 in the fourth. Highest margin we had was 70-28.
 
haha, i heard this on the radio coming home, that is ridiculous.
they're mentally challenged kids, so they should play other chalenged kids, not "normal" kids. that's just mean. and unfair.

edit: plus they haven't won a game in 4 years, get a clue school officials
 
This is fucking disgusting!

I have played on some really good wheelchair rugby teams. When we play some team that's just starting out and not as good as we are we take it easy on them. Play the first quarter normally; press and play as hard as we can with our top unit. Take it as a practice. After that we sit back in a zone and give them tips as we play the rest of the game. Result is that they stayed in the game. Guaranteed that they felt better than if we had played as hard as we could for the entire 4 quarters. Not one team has called us patronizing. Most praise us when we went back to the hotel for a beer.

What did the Covenant School learn? That it's OK to shit on someone when they're down. When that someone goes down, it's OK to keep pummeling them. Good life skills training.

What did the kids at Dallas Academy learn? Not what they're supposed to. These kids are liable to have self-esteem and other personal issues. Those issues would not have been helped by a coach that kept hoisting up threes and pressing kids that have a hard time. Sports is one tool to teach kids to have fun, learn about being on a team. At that age and at that level, sports is about teaching people good ethics and how to be good people. This did none of that. Good on the Academy players for moving on. They do know who the winners were. And hey they get to meet Mark Cuban.

If it's the same as my school leagues, these teams have to play each other.

The is such a thing as winning honourably. This was not that. Much more the opposite. I hope a lot of you don't have kids if this is what you're going to teach them.
 
this is total bullshit. the coach should be fired. what a complete lack of sportsmanship.

for those of you saying just that teams should just play the same way no matter what, have you ever actually played on a sports team? and pullstring, 78-28 in a football game is a far cry from 100-0 in a basketball game. if your football coach left his first starting players on eith that kind of margin, he was simply a bad football coach.

edit: forgot to answer the question: no. forfeiting a 100-0 game (especially after the fact) is retarded.
 
Being a good loser is part of sportsmanship.

I will tell you, I always love playing people superior to me in a sport. I will eventually get better and be alot better for it learning from my mistakes of a lose.

U play to win, not to give them a "better sunny happy feeling about how well they played."
 
I don't disagree with anything you just said, however none of that really excuses the coach's behaviour. the game was probably won around 50-0. at that point it's two birds with one stone.
 
I still dont see how the coach did anything wrong.

Dumbing down his game,IMO, damages the integrity of the game. And short attention spans and dyslexia arent set backs when it comes to sports.
 
...have you ever actually played on a sports team?
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lol nope. But what you, Disabled Traveler and my co-worker said makes sense. It's about being a good sport. I just think that firing the coach is a little over kill, if that's what he or she was in fact fired for.
 
Dumbing down his game,IMO, damages the integrity of the game. And short attention spans and dyslexia arent set backs when it comes to sports.
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I agree. I was always taught to give it my all. I have played on many sports teams when I was younger - basebell, basketball, and football(american). I always gave it 100% no matter who my team was against and I expected my teammates to do the same. Of course we were never in a position like this but even if we were my opinion would be no different, you play as hard as you can everytime or you dont play at all.
 
the coach's morals should be questioned - he no doubt made an ethical sports error by still pressing full court and attempting three point shots. however, this is not an offense that means he deserves to be fired. sports are played to be won.

this is a sign of the times. economically, the government is bailing out impotent CEO's and their failing corporations. America is ushering in a new age where we award those that do not deserve to be awarded. giving the team a forfeit victory substantiates this claim.

none of the articles I read mentioned that the losing team was mentally handicapped, which gives this story a rather humorous angle.
 
If the team that won 100-0 was fighting for a top seed in state finals, they should have run up the score. But they weren't. They are a Christian school that is trying to do the Christian thing now, by forfeiting the unsportsmanlike win.
 
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