108-3?

This will be my first and last post about high school girls basketball, I promise.

I just read about a beating of epic proportions. Christian Heritage High (Utah) utterly destroyed conference foe West Ridge Academy 108-3 last week.

The soccer moms might want to leave the room for this one, because I have no problems with that score after reading the winning coach's comments after the beating.

Heritage's coach after the game, from the article:

"That's why I'd rather have a team play me straight up, and that's why I played them straight up. Because I didn't want to taunt them, I didn't want to embarrass them, I didn't want them to think we could do whatever we want."

Someone gets it. This isn't 2nd grade CYC basketball on a 7-foot hoop. These are 17 and 18 year old kids. If the score was so bad, they could have forfeited. Or, if they were feeling really crazy, they could have hit a shot or two. Or 50.

So maybe West Ridge doesn't belong in the same universe as Heritage, let alone the same conference.

It's not the other team's fault they played a terrible squad.

And anyone who's ever played at the YMCA has seen that guy. He's the guy who played in college. He's better than anyone else in the gym and it's not even close. And for some reason, he likes to mess around, passing up easy layups or dunks just to dribble around instead of putting you out of your misery. That's 100 times worse than losing 11-0 and stepping off the court.

If a bunch of hacks at the local rec would rather be played straight up, a legit high school varsity team should feel the same way.

And if not, I'm sure there's a CYC league they can join. Maybe their moms will give them capri suns and cookies after the games too. And if they're lucky, maybe they won't keep score.