Girls basketball team plays most of 2nd half with 4 players

[c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s]

and almost pulls out the win. They only dressed five girls and one fouled out early in the third quarter. Lost the game 49-45.

https://www.crestonnews.com/2020/01/22/bulldogs-hold-on-against-shorthanded-maroonettes/abjgov/

 

[JMA1125]

Maroonettes?

 

[stormchaser2014]

Sounds like my sister's college team.

 

[IASTATE07]

Tyler Hetu apparently liked 13 from Diagonal.

 

[simply1]

Lol

O-M head coach Kim DeJongh knew this was going to be a point of attack for her team.

“It worked to our advantage, by them getting down to four players,” said DeJongh. “... It was a point of emphasis. We went into halftime with them having two girls with three fouls, so we were attempting to attack them to hopefully get it to the situation of having four.”

 

[Farnsworth]

My High School girlfriend's team only had 6 people total, and had to dress 5 several times. This happened to them a lot actually. Normally the other team would go down to four as well and they'd do 4-4. Some refused to. This was in 8 man football country.

 

[IASTATE07]

My High School girlfriend's team only had 6 people total, and had to dress 5 several times. This happened to them a lot actually. Normally the other team would go down to four as well and they'd do 4-4. Some refused to. This was in 8 man football country.

Teams refused to? I'm not sure why you would penalize your own team because the other team doesn't have numbers and can't stay out of foul trouble.

 

[Farnsworth]

Teams refused to? I'm not sure why you would penalize your own team because the other team doesn't have numbers and can't stay out of foul trouble.

Ya I get that, it's an extremely small and not that competitive of a conference. Probably not even around anymore.

Refused is probably a poor choice of words. I guess more times than not teams would always match up on numbers, so it seemed normal to us. I don't think it was ever requested that they go down on players.

One game they ended up playing 3 on 5 for awhile.

 

[BCClone]

I played two JV games with 5 players. First one, a teammate asked they coach what the roll of tape sitting on the bench next to him was for. He said if someone gets hurt I’m taping them up and throwing them back in.

Had one teammate pick up 4 fouls late in the third so we moved to a zone and put them in a safe spot. We won that game also. Against Mr.Jannys hometown.

 

[Acylum]

Maroonettes?

It's like marionettes, but different.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

 

[Bret44]

Good ol' Diagonal. I miss the old Bluegrass Conference. Fox Valley, Russell, and Lineville-Clio are all closed and Diagonal can't be far behind. Playing basketball in tiny, hot gyms. Good times.

 

[IASTATE07]

Good ol' Diagonal. I miss the old Bluegrass Conference. Fox Valley, Russell, and Lineville-Clio are all closed and Diagonal can't be far behind. Playing basketball in tiny, hot gyms. Good times.

I've heard Diagonal has money, but students also spend half the day at Mt. Ayr.

 

[c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s]

I've heard Diagonal has money, but students also spend half the day at Mt. Ayr.

Smallest public school in the state. Second smallest overall. Twenty one total students in grades 9-11.

https://www.ighsau.org/upl/downloads/library/2019-20-beds-numerical.pdf

357. Iowa School for the Deaf 31
358. South Page, College Springs 30
359. Waterloo Christian School 27
360. Isaac Newton Christian Academy 25
361. Scattergood Friends 23
362. North Iowa Christian School 22
363. Diagonal 21
364. Promise Academy at Quakerdale 6

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Teams refused to? I'm not sure why you would penalize your own team because the other team doesn't have numbers and can't stay out of foul trouble.

I’d assume it’s more of an understanding of the school size of the opponent and your amount of respect for them.

 

[besserheimerphat]

Teams refused to? I'm not sure why you would penalize your own team because the other team doesn't have numbers and can't stay out of foul trouble.

How about because its ******* high school basketball and sportsmanship should mean something? Maybe that's why?

In D1/1-AA or NBA, sure. Play your best five against whatever they have. But at lower levels it just doesn't matter. If people's livelihoods weren't involved, I'd say it didn't matter at these levels either. It's just a game.

 

[Farnsworth]

Smallest public school in the state. Second smallest overall. Twenty one total students in grades 9-11.

https://www.ighsau.org/upl/downloads/library/2019-20-beds-numerical.pdf

357. Iowa School for the Deaf 31
358. South Page, College Springs 30
359. Waterloo Christian School 27
360. Isaac Newton Christian Academy 25
361. Scattergood Friends 23
362. North Iowa Christian School 22
363. Diagonal 21
364. Promise Academy at Quakerdale 6

Why 9-11 and not 9-12? Seems weird as some high schools are 9-12, some are 10-12.
Interesting data though.

I'm trying to figure out what's going on with 364. I tried googling but all I get is they only have 4 students, men only, and serves grades 9-10.

edit: and thanks for that info, it assisted me in finding out the school I was referring too merged into a regional school.

 

[IASTATE07]

How about because its ******* high school basketball and sportsmanship should mean something? Maybe that's why?

Calm down, ****. Teams are still playing games to win. Nobody is pulling their fifth starter in a close game.

 

[CyHans]

Why 9-11 and not 9-12? Seems weird as some high schools are 9-12, some are 10-12.
Interesting data though.

I'm trying to figure out what's going on with 364. I tried googling but all I get is they only have 4 students, men only, and serves grades 9-10.

edit: and thanks for that info, it assisted me in finding out the school I was referring too merged into a regional school.

Maroonettes?

I graduated HS in 1980 and our high school didn't have girls sports until the early/mid 70's and I think that was common for other schools too. When more schools got girls sports they felt they needed a more feminine name for the team name. We were the Cyclones/Cyclonette's. I never understood why they had to distinguish them that way. Now you see it more as Cyclones/Lady Cyclones but I'm still not sure why one name doesn't work for both.

 

[LivntheCyLife]

Why 9-11 and not 9-12? Seems weird as some high schools are 9-12, some are 10-12.
Interesting data though.

...

I think the data is compiled during the summer to predict enrollment for the upcoming school year. Not sure how grade 9 is handled although with public high schools it seems pretty easy to predict. Are there any 10-12 private schools?