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| brumdog44 | Feb 21 2009, 02:35 AM Post #1 |
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The guy picked last in gym class
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South Bend Washington's girl's basketball team finished the season undefeated. Skylar Diggins lead the team in scoring at over 28 points/game and is the consesus #1 ranked high school senior guard in the nation. Jasmine Watson, a 6'3" transfer from Elkhart Memorial, is the 23 ranked forward in the nation and averages over 12 points and 8 rebounds/game. The team averages 80 points per game and has blown out some very good competition (they beat 17-5 Penn by 43 points, they beat 4A sectional champions Michigan City (20-3) by 36 and Gary West (17-6) by 22). They now play 20-3 Elkhart Memorial in the regional, whom they beat 70-54 earlier in the season. Now the interesting part. Jasmine Watson player her freshman through junior years at Elkhart Memorial, which lost to Washington last year in the regional. Watson played AAU ball with Diggins and was close to her. Supposedly Washington's coach began courting Watson to transfer and she did. Memorial challenged the transfer stating that there undue influence from Washington and that Watson's transfer was for athletic reasons. The IHSAA agreed, and denied Watson's eligibility at Washington. For the first eight games of the season Watson didn't play, then she got an injunction in a South Bend court. Her lawyer stated that if the IHSAA appealed, it would take months to for it to reach the Indiana state court and that the season would be long over. The IHSAA has chosen to appeal (probably rightly so in this case). If the IHSAA wins the appeal, they may involve the restitution clause and force Washington to forfeit all games in which Watson played...this would mean all tournament games as well, so the state runner up could be declared the champion. Unfortunately that would be little consolation to teams that were beaten previously in the tournament by them. Now a state representative from South Bend is grand standing and starting a bill downstate that would eliminate the IHSAA and put athletics under the rule of the department of education. While I have disagreed with some rulings from the IHSAA, putting athletics under the jurisdiction of education would be a HUGE mistake. |
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