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I was at the game Tuesday night. Mayer played well. VL played well. I have coached and seen many 1a games in my life, but this one has to rank in the top 5 for most one-sided officiated games I have ever seen. I don't like to blame officials, as poor officiating usually evens out, but this game was unbelievable. Mayer is basically 8 football players playing basketball. Still, they are quick and talented. They are also very physical; easily the most physical team in 1a west. Tuesday night, the Mayer team was whistled for 7 fouls in the entire game. 4 in the 1st half and 3 in the 2nd. I would venture a guess that this was the fewest number of fouls Mayer has EVER had in a game. After a 12-0 run Valley took a 7 point lead midway through the 3rd. Then they were immediately taken out of their game by no calls and bad calls. VL (and every other team) knows that when you go to Mayer you always get the short end of the calls, but this was totally shameful. Roland (Mayer AD and Coach) should be ashamed at what went on last night. This is not a dig on the Mayer boys. They were respectful and great sports. They took advantage of every opportunity that the refs gave them. They will be a tough team the rest of the season.

Valley knows that on a neutral court, things will be different. They look forard to the regional tournament and another shot at Mayer!

I know that the AIA assigns officials and the coach/ad has little say. Still, the same officials always seem to do the Mayer games. One of them was the same official that ejected VL's scorekeeper 2 years ago for arguing Mayer changing the score at halftime when they found an uncounted basket. Also, since mileage is paid to officials and the home team pays them, they always get officials that live closer to home to keep the cost down. This tends to provide them a little "Home Cookin" so to speak.

My point about being embarrassed was saying that I would have been embarrassed if my team had such lopsided officiating in my gym. I would most likely be apologizing to the opposing coach.

Also, I am not a coach, only a fan.