A School Won 92-4 in Basketball. Then the Coach Was Suspended.
By Neil Vigdor
Jan. 6, 2022
The scoreboard, stuck on zero for the visiting team until the game’s final
quarter, wasn’t broken.
直到比賽最後一節，客隊的記分板仍舊掛蛋。
The full-court pressure and man-to-man defense had been just that
suffocating. Just as unrelenting were the barrage of three-point shots and
fast-break chances.
全場壓迫+人盯人防守簡直令人窒息，三分球和快攻機會同樣無情。
But the lopsided result of the high school girls basketball game in
Connecticut this week might have made even Bobby Knight blanch — the final
score between Sacred Heart Academy and Lyman Hall High School was 92-4.
本週在美國康乃狄克州舉行的高中女子籃球賽的最終比賽結果可能會讓傳奇教頭
Bob Knight臉色慘白。
因為主隊聖心中學以92：4大勝客隊黎曼霍爾高中。
Now the coach of Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic high school for girls in
Hamden, Conn., near New Haven, has been suspended for one game by the school’
s administration, which apologized for the manner in which “the outcome of
the game was achieved” on Monday night.
聖心中學的總教練最終被學校管理層禁賽一場。
聖心中學是一所天主教女子中學，學校位於康乃狄克州附近的Hamden。
校方週一晚間為「比賽出現這樣的結果」發出道歉聲明。
The suspension of Jason Kirck, the third-year coach of the Sharks, one of the
top-ranked teams in the state, was confirmed on Thursday by Al Carbone, the
commissioner of the Southern Connecticut Conference. Sacred Heart won the
league’s Division 2 championship last year.
南康乃狄克聯盟主席 Al Carbone 證實了聖心總教練被禁賽的消息，
而被禁賽的聖心中學總教練 Jason Kirck，已經是第三年執教該球隊了。
聖心中學在康州的女籃實力屬於頂尖，她們去年贏得二級聯賽的冠軍。
“It raises a red flag,” Mr. Carbone said on Thursday of the score. “It’s
not just it was an 88-point margin. How does it impact our student-athletes?”
Al Carbone在談到這種大懸殊比分時表示：「那是個警訊，這不僅僅是場88分差的比賽，
而是這會對我們學生運動員造成何種影響。」
It wasn’t the first time that a scholastic sports program had drawn
criticism for running up the score on an opponent and prompted a debate over
the boundaries between athletic prowess and sportsmanship.
但這並非校園體育賽事因大比分差所引發批評的首例，
不過是再一次介於"實力"與"運動家精神"之間的論戰。
Mr. Carbone said that Mr. Kirck, who has two daughters who play basketball
for Sacred Heart, would miss the team’s highly anticipated game against
Hamden High School on Thursday night. The decision to suspend him was made by
Sacred Heart, according to Mr. Carbone, who said that the league did not have
a mercy rule in basketball.
Carbone說，總教練Jason Kirck自己的兩個女兒就在聖心打球，
下周四聖心要對上漢登高中，到時Kirck將被禁賽不得執教。
據Carbone所言，禁賽決定是聖心中學下的，而他表示聯盟中沒有所謂的憐憫條款。
Administrators at Sacred Heart did not immediately respond to phone and email
messages seeking comment on Thursday, but expressed remorse over the episode
in a statement to GameTimeCT, a scholastic sports website that is part of
Hearst Connecticut Media Group.
聖心中學管理層上週四並未回覆相關詢問，
但校方在給Hearst Connecticut Media Group學校體育網站GameTimeCT的聲明中，
表達了歉意。
In a statement, Sister Sheila O’Neill, the school’s president, said: “
Sacred Heart Academy values the lessons taught and cultivated through
athletic participation, including ethical and responsible behavior,
leadership and strength of character and respect for one’s opponents. Last
night’s Girls’ Basketball game vs Lyman Hall High School does not align
with our values or philosophies.”
聖心校長Sheila O’Neill在聲明中表示
「聖心中學相當重視參加體育活動所能學到和培養的東西，當中包含道德、負責、
領導力、品格強化、以及給對手的尊重。昨晚對上黎曼霍爾高中的女子籃球賽，
與我們的價值觀和理念不符。」
Mr. Kirck, 47, did not immediately respond to phone and email messages on
Thursday.
Lyman Hall High School, a public school in Wallingford, Conn., did not
respond to messages left for its girls basketball coach or its athletic
director.
47歲的聖心總教練Kirck沒有回覆這則聲明或電子郵件。
黎曼霍爾高中是康乃狄克州Wallingford的一所公立高中，該校教練或體育總監對此沒有
回應。
In a statement to media outlets in Connecticut, the coach, Tom Lipka, said
that Sacred Heart kept trying to force turnovers and never relented with its
fast-break offense.
在給康乃狄克州媒體的聲明中，黎曼霍爾高中的教練 Tom Lipka 表示，聖心中學全場
不斷壓迫我們發生失誤，也從沒放棄過快攻機會。
“They showed no mercy throughout,” Mr. Lipka said.
Tom Lipka說「他們毫無憐憫之心。」
Sacred Heart raced out to a 29-0 lead after the first quarter of the
32-minute game. At the half, the lead was 56-0. And by the end of the third
quarter, it had ballooned to 80-0.
聖心中學打完首節以29:0領先，中場結束56:0，打完三節已經是80:0了。
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心得：差88分我記得不是最大比分，之前好像有差破百的有點忘了
話說這兩隊28日還要再度交手......
不過這種學生聯賽大比分差引起討論好像屢見不鮮，潛規則嗎? 大家怎麼看?
如果不能PO在NBA版請版主跟我說，我會自D，感謝