California high school girls basketball team beats opponents, 161-2

In an obvious case of a good team meeting a not-as-good team, a high school girls basketball squad in Southern California beat their opponents, 161-2 — and it’s not even the record for the most points scored by a team in a game in the state’s history.

After Arroyo Valley High School of San Bernardino, Calif., beat non-league opponent, Bloomington, by 159 points, there was almost as much finger-pointing as points from the winning team, the San Bernardino Sun reported.

Arroyo Valley (14-1), which is about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, had already won games by 98, 81, 74, 73 and 67 points earlier this season.

And Bloomington (0-9) had already lost one game this season by 91 points.

“People shouldn’t feel sorry for my team. They should feel sorry for his team, which isn’t learning the game the right way,” Bloomington coach Dale Chung told The Sun.

Chung said Arroyo Valley played a full-court press for all of the first half, which ended with Bloomington trailing, 104-1. Arroyo Valley coach Michael Anderson called off the press after the first half but switched to a half-court trap for the third quarter before retreating in the fourth, which was played with a running clock.

“I didn’t play any starters in the second half,”  Anderson said. “I didn’t expect (Bloomington) to be that bad. I’m not trying to embarrass anybody. And I didn’t expect my bench to play that well. I had one (bench) player make 8 of 9 3s.”

Anderson said he didn’t post the lop-sided score to Maxpreps.com and didn’t report the game to media outlets. But a picture of the scoreboard with the final score was posted to the team’s Facebook page before the page was deleted Thursday night.

“The game just got away from me,” he said.

Five years ago, a coach in Texas was fired for not apologizing for a 100-0 win. He said his team played the way they were taught, with honor and integrity.

In hindsight, Anderson said he should have pulled his starters after the first quarter and “I wouldn’t play the game at all.”

He was reprimanded after the game.

"He’s a great X’s and O’s coach. Ethically? Not so much," said Chung.  "He knows what he did was wrong."

The 161 points is the second-most by a girls varsity team in California history, eclipsed only by the 179 points Riverside Poly scored against Riverside Norte Vista on Jan. 26, 1982. Cheryl Miller scored 105 points in the 179-15 win.

Bullied Iowa high school girls' basketball coaches quit: Report

Five girls' basketball coaches for an Iowa high school reportedly announced their resignations due to a recent string of unreasonable accusations and criticism from a handful of parents of players.

And they are calling it bullying.

The harassment from some players' parents and other critics of the program have driven the coaches at Independence Junior/Senior High away from their coaching jobs in the northeast Iowa city, reported KWWL.

Assistant coach Rob Ratchford said Monday that he and head varsity coach Rod Conrad had endured too many menacing or irate phone calls.

The coaches said parents bullied them so much they gave their resignations last week.

The basketball coaches said parents have been constantly harassing them about playing time for their kids, but now they say it’s gotten to the point of bullying.

“I received phone calls this week threatening to fight me...wanted me to come over to the house and fight them,” said Ratchford.

Ratchford said he knows that criticism comes with coaching.

"You read things on social media and you try to ignore those kinds of things: People approaching you on game day and phone calls on game day, and phone calls after the game," he told Cedar Rapids television station KCRG.

Ratchford also said he's worried the girls might suffer.

"We're there to teach the kids," he said. "The parents need to step back and realize what the kids are actually gaining out of having a great coach in Independence."

Ratchford said despite all this, he's happy with how the school handled the situation.

School officials told KWWL on Monday that they have not formally accepted Conrad's resignation and can't comment on personnel issues.