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[NM_Birder]

16. If the girls played the game through to the end,

even while being pasted with a score like that,......then the lesson they need to know is sinking in. regardless the odds, DO.NOT.QUIT.

Don't quit on yourself, don't quit on your teammates. Don't blame the ref, and don't blame the other team superior skill, work as hard as you can, stick together, play your game and don't quit.

Rely on yourself, don't depend on someone else changing the rules for you, give it all you got regardless the score. High school basketball will be irrelevant in short order, but sticking together and not quitting is the lesson here, not "but someone should have stopped the game to keep the losing team's self esteem in place".

There are winners, losers,... and fighters. Fighters may lose a game but are always winners, losers who quit don't understand the team mentality and quitting will always be the option out. these girls are fighters that may not win the games, but in the home lives the article describes, sticking together regardless the odds makes them winners.

If you played ball, then you know it's not just about the score, they lost every game they played, ..... but they still show up and played as a team. THAT is what high school athletics is about, surprised you don't see that with 50 years experience.