6.
At the nationals, the Redwood City girls
won their first two games. In the third
round, their opponents were from
somewhere deep in Orange County.
Redwood City had to play them on their
own court, and the opponents supplied
their own referee as well. The game was
at eight o’clock in the morning. The
Redwood City players left their hotel at
six to beat the traffic. It went downhill
from there. The referee did not believe
in “one, two, three, attitude, hah!” He
didn’t think that playing to deny the
inbounds pass was basketball. He began
calling one foul after another.