Blowout
Okla. High School Hoops Team Loses 112-2
EARLSBORO, Okla- (AP) - The Hanna High School basketball team can take some consolation: It didn't get shut out.
It did, however, lose 112-2 on Friday night to Earlsboro.
“It was embarrassing to watch,” Earlsboro coach Jim Walling told The Oklahoman. “But you can't just tell your kids not to score. I've been coaching 27 years and have never been involved in something like this.”
The Wildcats led 42-0 after one quarter and 73-2 at halftime. Walling pulled his starters in the second half, and game officials kept a running clock, stopping it only for free throws.
Each player on Earlsboro's 10-man boys' roster scored. Seven players finished in double figures.
The worst part about this isn't that they lost so badly, it's that they lost so badly THAT IT GOT PICKED UP BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Now what would be just a normal garden variety high school type humiliation, gets to be blown up into a grand national fiasco. I looked this up on Google News, and AT LEAST 54 other publications picked up this story. Sucks.
