You have to dig through this history books to find examples of what Froid-Medicine Lake girls basketball team did to Brockton on Friday, and there aren’t many entries. At the final buzzer on Friday they’d won 102-0, cementing just the 20th shutout in basketball since 1907 in a disastrous game where everything went wrong for Brockton.
Everything went wrong for this high school basketball team that lost 102-0
“At the end of the day, they all went home and asked: ‘What’s for dinner, Mom?’”
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James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.
Brockton never really expected to win the game. Froid-Medicine Lake boasted three starters who were over six feet tall, while Brockton’s tallest player was just 5’7 -- but nonetheless they had a game plan, until players started dropping like flies. For a variety of reasons players kept calling out saying they’d miss the game, leaving Brockton with just five players total, including an eighth-grader, and a sophomore who hadn’t played basketball since she was 11-years-old.
Terrance Johnson, the team’s coach, explained to the Great Falls Tribune what went wrong.
“We knew what we were getting into,” Johnson said. “We spent two weeks getting ready for this game, but when we got down to five players, all of our plans went right out the window.
“We got down quickly and stopped taking stats in the first quarter. I’m not sure if we even hit double figures in field goal attempts.”
At halftime the score was 59-0. Refs elected to use a running clock for the entire second half, to end the misery as quickly as possible, but it wasn’t enough. When one of Brockton’s only available players went down with an injury it was too much.
“She was coming down the floor and came to a jump stop, and she went down,” Johnson added without naming the player. “She just sat on the floor while the refs held the ball until the clock ran out.”
The opposing coach, Lance Brekke felt bad for what happened to Brockton, and questioned why the game was continuing in the first place.
“I know the referees could have called the game after it went out of hand,” Brekke said.
It’s easy to say that Froid-Medicine Lake should have taken their foot off the gas and let things end, but they were just playing until the buzzer. Brockton’s coach isn’t harboring any ill will towards his opponents, even after getting beaten by 102 points and shut out.
“My girls did everything possible to score, and we were trying to find a way to get a crooked number up there,” Johnson added. “They did nothing wrong. At the end of the day, they all went home and asked: ‘What’s for dinner, Mom?’”
It’s going to be a long time before we see anything like this again.
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