Upon Further Review

Couldn’t imagine they would ever end a regional football game in the third quarter.

Don’t think you’ll ever see a regional basketball game be called due to darkness and the two teams told that, well, the way the score was when it got dark is going to be the final result.

Actually, that will never happen. Football and basketball bring in some sweet ducats, you know. Which is the main reason why Group A and AA have split into two divisions when it comes to state championship play. (And, please, don’t give me that “So more kids have a chance at a state title,“ garbage. Because it’s all, as they say, about the Benjamins.)

So that’s why Monday’s Region B golf debacle at The Manor Golf Club in Farmville is such a, well, debacle.

What is supposed to be one step of VHSL crowning glory for the golfers, turned into a Mel Brooks-esque farce thanks to the wonks in charge that planned this so-called event. (By the way, click the link and imagine Mel Brooks is a Region B golfer and pigeons can play the part of the people the scheduled this event. Yeah, that’s how the kids should feel.) Turns out, the scheduling genius who put this thing together decided the best day for Region B to have it’s regional tournament was on the same day Hampden-Sydney College was also hosting a golf match. What was supposed to start at 10 a.m. (the Region B tourney) didn’t start until sometime around noon which, to put it bluntly, left the high school golfers no time to finish 18 holes.

The solution? They didn’t finish. Instead they only counted 13 holes, which is akin to only counting two quarters in a football game.

The bottom line here: Whoever planned this thing should never be allowed to even schedule the Region B tiddlywinks tournament. Or, how about this, let this guy (or girl) go to Wilson Memorial, Riverheads and Buffalo Gap (and every other school that wasn’t allowed to finish and had to watch its postseason cut short) and explain why they did what they did. Why couldn’t they schedule it for another day?

I mean, how bad does Region B look if you could say the Southern Valley DoesStink does a better job scheduling events?

Forcing the Rockbridge County girls soccer team to lose a home game thanks to scheduling is one thing (one thing, by the way, Rockbridge High School did in the spring), but treating the high school golf postseason like it’s some sort of insignificant footnote is another.

Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame on somebody. And somebody needs to be accountable for this.

And another thing: Glad to see the Wilson Memorial volleyball team decided to wake up.

Hey, I don’t know who decided to hand this talented group of volleyball players the district crown before the season is even over (our guess is nobody but themselves did that), but they have to realize that if you want to go into Region B play as the team to beat, you can’t be losing to Luray on the road and then let Stonewall-freakin’-Jackson take you to five games in your house.

In. Your. House. Nope. Never. Can’t do it.

“[The team was] asking me questions they knew the answers to,“ said Wilson coach Kim Claytor.

Yeah, that’s not real good Green Hornets. Just ask Stuarts Draft football.

Here’s what we like about Claytor — she’s fiery. She doesn’t accept mediocrity, especially when she knows she doesn’t have a mediocre team. (Because the Green Hornets are the furthest thing from being mediocre). So what does she do in an attempt to fire her girls up? She takes the first chance she gets to argue a bad call and get herself slapped with a yellow card. Fine. Great. You gotta do that when your team is sleepwalking though a pivotal (and yes, they’re all pivotal) Shenandoah District match.

“I told them, ‘I got a yellow card, and this needs to be worth something,‘ “ she said.

What we like about the Green Hornets? They responded.

Next question.

Why on god’s green earth does a coach, during the district schedule, have to get a yellow card to fire up a team? Come on girls. Really? You don’t know how talented you are? You don’t know that the past two seasons you’ve been bounced out of Region B? You don’t know that if you want to reach the pinnacle of high school volleyball in the Group A (Division 2?) tournament, that you have to play with intensity every time you take the floor?

Do the math, Green Hornets. Do. The. Math.

Final thoughts: Updated Power Ranking will be up by 1 p.m. today. Wilson needs to play with intensity every time it takes the floor and whoever scheduled the Region B meet ought to be flogged.

Now where’s my Cat o’ nine tails?