High School Basketball Game

[Skrappy1]

Evidently there is no shot clock in high schools in Vermont. A 3-pointer in the 2nd quarter turned out to be the game winning basket! That's just stupid.

 

Second quarter 3-pointer proves decisive

Associated Press

 

MILTON, Vt. - Hard to imagine a 3-pointer in the second quarter of a high school boy's basketball game would turn out to be the winning basket — unless it's one of only three made in the entire game.

 

That basket, along with an earlier field goal, was all Bellows Free Academy-Fairfax needed to beat Milton on Wednesday night. The final score: 5-2.

To the teams' credit, the score was the result of an apparently deliberate stalling strategy.

 

It could not immediately be determined if the score was a state or national record low, but the contest certainly attracted attention.

 

"We've been talking about it all morning over here," said Bob Johnson, the director of student activities for the Vermont Principals' Association, which governs high school sports.

 

"It had to have been one of the most boring games in the world," he said.

 

The scoring was kept way down on purpose, a strategy made possible by the fact that Vermont high schools don't use a shot clock. No player went to the free-throw line as Milton committed five fouls and BFA had one.

 

BFA took a 5-0 lead and neither team scored in the second half.

 

"It was the ultimate deliberate stalemate," Milton coach Jim Smith said. "They didn't come out after us and we didn't go in against them."

 

Smith said the slowdown was implemented because BFA (7-4) has a strong scoring presence, while Milton (2-8) does not. The Milton players believed their best chance to be competitive was to just hold onto the ball.

 

The strategy almost worked.

 

"We had a shot go off the rim that would have tied it," Smith said. "We were one possession away to tie the game. We have not been in that position for quite some time."

 

Alex Weber's basket gave BFA a 2-0 lead in the first quarter. Shadoe Adams' 3-pointer made it 5-0 at the start of the second quarter. Brian Phelps scored later in the period and Milton trailed 5-2 at halftime.

 

"I've never had a player hit a game-winner in the second quarter before," BFA-Fairfax coach Glen Button Jr. said.

[broncosn05]

Defense was either AWESOME. Or they just stink.

[Scrambled]

Did i read that this was a Basketball score :bigshock:

 

I thought hockey had returned

[Donutrun Jellies]

Evidently there is no shot clock in high schools in Vermont.  A 3-pointer in the 2nd quarter turned out to be the game winning basket!  That's just stupid.

 

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True -- no shot clock, but I bet the VPA institutes a shot clock for next season ... (Ironically, Milton has a tough time passing school budgets, so they tend to have nothing in the wallet for stuff like newly mandated shot clocks!!!).

[Chief Dick]

Sounds to me like these 2 coaches got together before the game and agreed to this. Sounds fishy to me.

 

5-2 ?

 

That's got to be impossible.

[Donutrun Jellies]

Sounds to me like these 2 coaches got together before the game and agreed to this. Sounds fishy to me.

 

5-2 ?

 

That's got to be impossible. 

 

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Nope ... one started the stall, the other followed suit ... If it had been a conspiracy, why go to 5-2? Why not try for a 1-0? We're not sophisticated enough here in rural Vermont for a real good conspiracy in high school basketball -- we still understand that they're just kids playing a game.

[Herdmaster]

Two "schools for the blind" it sounds like.

[BeachBum]

Another example of coaches getting in the way of kids having an enjoyable sports experience. If you asked the players, "Do you want to lose 5-2, or 80-40", which would THEY choose. Let the kids play. If they get beat so what.

 

Fire the coaches.

[Chargerz]

That HAD to be an exciting game! :

[Ralph Furley]

Two "schools for the blind" it sounds like.

 

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Exactly what I was thinking...