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I don’t care how good one basketball team is or how bad the other team is, losing a game 102 to 0 requires something pretty bizarre to happen. And what happened to the Brockton High School girls basketball team in Montana in their game against the Froid-Medicine Lake Redhawks definitely qualifies as bizarre.
According to the Great Falls Tribune, losing a high school basketball game 102 to 0 is so rare that “it is the very first time any basketball team has been shutout in the state of Montana, and only the 20th time it has ever happened in any level of basketball since 1907.”
So how on earth did Froid-Medicine Lake manage to lay such a beatdown on poor Brockton? Well, like I said, it was pretty bizarre.
[Terrence] Johnson, who has been the varsity coach in Brockton for seven years, normally would have had “nine or ten girls” available at game time. But as that hour drew closer for the Warriors’ first game of the 2017-18 season, he started losing players for various reasons.
Finally, he got the word at noon Friday.
“My other girl came down sick and couldn’t go, so we had to start the game with only five players,” Johnson said. “We had one eighth-grader, a first-year freshman and three sophomores. One sophomore was playing for the first time since sixth grade, the freshman had never really played ball until this year.
Ouch. It was their first game of the season too? Not a great way to kick things off.
But wait, it somehow gets even worse for Coach Johnson and the Redhawks…
“We got down quickly and stopped taking stats in the first quarter. I’m not sure if we even hit double figures in field goal attempts.”
Those five players went down to four when one of his sophomores turned her ankle early in the second half. The Warriors would lose a second girl in the final 10 second to a knee injury.
“She was coming down the floor and came to a jump stop, and she went down,” Johnson added without naming the player. “She just sat on the floor while the refs held the ball until the clock ran out.”
The Redhawks were up 59 to 0 at halftime and they used a continuous running clock for the final two quarters, but even that wasn’t enough to slow down the onslaught.
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Not that Johnson or any of his players held it against the Froid-Medicine Lake players or coaches…
“My girls did everything possible to score, and we were trying to find a way to get a crooked number up there,” Johnson added. “They did nothing wrong. At the end of the day, they all went home and asked: ‘What’s for dinner, Mom?’”
Good for them. I hope it was pizza.
H/T The Big Lead