Thoughts on getting routed in a high school sport contest

my oct 15, 2014 comment to this thread
http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/184363/15Oct2014/Eastwood_vs_Rogers_girls_soccer

For Eastwood coaches, it's tough to play players who normally see little action and then tell them, "Don't play."

I see no problem with the score. That's life in sports. Sometimes, you get routed.

During my senior year of high school basketball, we began the year with a decent record. I started at guard. But then injuries and a suspension wrecked our key players after only a few games, so I got moved from guard to forward. At 5' 11" and maybe 145 pounds, I struggled with guarding opponents who were significantly larger.

Until we got used to our new lineup changes, we got beat easily. One team defeated us 74-20 on our home court, during the week, so I had to go to school the next day. And this occurred before high school basketball implemented the three-point shot.

Our record was only 4-17. I also played baseball, and we went 22-4 in my senior year. I got to "enjoy" both extremes that year. The beauty of playing sports.

I assume that a mercy rule does not exist in Ohio high school soccer.

If it's an emotionally destructive event for the losing team, then the high school athletic association needs to implement a mercy rule. The concerned parents should lobby the governing body to implement the change.

This fall, Ohio started a new mercy rule change for high school football. A blowout game, however, is not shortened to three quarters. Once the score differential reaches a certain level, the game clock is not stopped.

Obviously, that type of change does not work in soccer, since the game clock is normally not stopped, I think.

From this Wikipedia page :

In United States high school soccer, most states use a mercy rule that ends the game whenever one team is ahead by 10 or more goals at any point from halftime onward.

I'm more impressed that Rogers offers soccer than the goals scored by Eastwood.

Hopefully, the Rogers girls are proud that they are playing a sport. They get to experience the team camaraderie. It's easier to skip playing a sport and spend that time doing something else. And hopefully, the Rogers girls are learning, working, and improving, regardless of the scores.

I do not subscribe to this thinking:

• "you beat these young kids spirit who may never play soccer again because of it"
• "some Rogers players may never want to play the sport again."

Would people say the same thing if these were boys instead of girls?

First, these are high school students, not elementary school kids. I think that the high school girls are strong enough to deal with this.

And with all of the other bullshit drama that exists in the life of a high school student, getting crushed in a soccer match is probably easy to handle.

Maybe concerned outsiders should find out when and where the Rogers girls soccer team plays again and then show up and support them.

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my second comment

I believe that a need exists for a simplified website that provides info on all high school sports, especially scores. Finding a website with the score of the game was harder than I expected.

The Rogers - Eastwood game was played on Mon, Oct 13.

I couldn't figure out how to get this site to function properly.
http://www.ohiohssports.com/girlssoccer

At least this site include the records of the teams, but it annoyingly prompts readers to join the site.
http://www.maxpreps.com/games/girls-soccer-fall-14/eastwood-vs-rogers/10-13-2014-Vo2-GiqT-0uQ5693dDb_Dw.htm

Seems to be a bit overdone for simply showing the score.
http://www.bcsn.tv/game/show/8521805?subseason=169857&referrer=1285222

This was probably the schedule for the Rogers girls soccer team. It's lacking info. The outcomes for some games are missing.
http://www.bcsn.tv/schedule/team_instance/849455?subseason=169857

I think that Rogers ended the season with a 2-7 record, and Eastwood has a record of 9-3-4.

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my oct 17, 2014 comments

I heard the Eastwood caller on Fred's show this morning.

This was Rogers first year with girls soccer, and apparently, the Rogers coach formed the team two weeks before the season started.

After the Eastwood game, the caller said Eastwood fed the Rogers girls.

According to the caller, it sounded like Rogers still had fun.

The Rogers girls should feel good about playing on the first girls soccer team for the school. Same for any other Toledo schools.

It seems like that it takes some courage or at least a fair amount of curiosity to participate in a brand new school sport even if the student has never played the game before and does not know all the rules.

The lesson for adults is not to be afraid to try something new.

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And credit to the Rogers coach or coaches for starting the team.

Was this also Waite's first year with girls soccer? If so, when those two teams played this fall, that should have been an excellent story.

Has anyone in the local media done a story on the new girls soccer teams in Toledo? I wonder what ignited the coaches to start teams, and what interested the players to participate.

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