Pec Claims Rugby Scrum

The main point of any sports story should never be the referees.

The game between the Pecatonica and Stockton girls basketball teams was supposed to be a top five show down, full of hot shooters and star players making big plays. But, instead, the story of the game was how Pecatonica was able to adjust to the physicality of play being allowed, by the men in stripes much better than Stockton.

Make no mistake, the officiating was not one sided, it was not unfair, it was perfectly bad both ways. In the first half, a defender could jump out and body block the ball handler, and as along as their ha...