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Baseball final forfeited because of girl at second base
The Arizona Charter Athletic Association state championship baseball game wasn't played Thursday night because Mesa Prep's second baseman is a girl.
Paige Sultzbach, a freshman, is playing baseball because her high school doesn't offer girls softball. But the school Mesa Prep was to face in the final, Our Lady of Sorrows Academy, said its boys would not compete against a team with a girl and forfeited the game - and the state title - to Mesa Prep.
"As a Catholic school, we promote the ideal of forming and educating boys and girls separately during the adolescent years, especially in physical education,” Our Lady of Sorrows said in a statement, according to CNN affiliate KTVK.
“It takes tremendous moral courage to stand by what it is you believe, and they are doing what they think is right,” Mesa Prep Headmaster Robert Wagner told KTVK.
But Sultzbach's mother, Pamela Sultzbach, said her daughter and the Mesa Prep team were being done a disservice.
"This is not a contact sport. It shouldn't be an issue. It wasn't that they were afraid they were going to hurt or injure her, it's that (they believe) that a girl's place is not on a field," Pamela Sultzbach told the Arizona Republic.
"I respect their views, but it's a bit out of the 18th century," Amy Arnold, Mesa Prep's athletic director, told the Republic.
Mesa Prep and Our Lady of Sorrows played twice during the regular season, but Sultzbach sat out, as they were away games for her team.
“It was on their field, and I felt the need to respect their rules,” she told KTVK.
The final would have been on a neutral field, and Sultzbach wanted to play.
Now, despite being hailed as state champions, Mesa Prep will feel like they've missed something, Pamela Sultzbach said.
"This team has worked so hard," she said. "They're undefeated. They had one game left. At our school, we're taught that when you start something, you complete it, and they weren't done."
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Slow news day at CNN, give us a news flash from the fourth grade, how low can you go. MYOB.
If this were a public school league, I'd have a huge issue. But it's a private school league. PRIVATE. So let them have their antiquated ways and let them be the bigots that they are. It's a private school, so each of their parents are CHOOSING to send them there.
The comments involving cooties are hilarious. Thank you, commentors.
now if the high scool team didn't offer boys baseball and only girls softball would the boys be aloud to play softball?
republicans in the making
Our Lady of Sorrows...LOL got that right!
Hmmm What Would Jesus Do??!!? oh thats right SHUN FEMALES because OBVIOUSLY they are no match for Boys. Some where Yogi Berra is doing cart wheels in his grave 😛
He's not dead, dimwit!
TheMightyThor might know it - hence the smiley? - but I want to remind everyone else that Yogi Berra has not left the room. He walks among us still, taking every folk in the road.
Considering that Yogi is still alive you've just made your own Yogism. Of course Yogi did once say that you should always attend people's funerals if you want them to attend yours.
Maybe all associations should evaluate their core beliefs and make sure their bylaws and rules are in accordance. If this athletic association wants to avoid similar situations, make requirements for membership, Clearly the acceptance of minority players is a problem for this school (and I mean that they caused the problem by demeaining women as unequal and something lesser or not worthy of their acknowledgement)
Antiquated religious ideology. If churches are going to continue perpetuating obsolete myths about what a women's place is, there days are numbered. What's wrong with kids today? Are you telling me not one of those boys complained about not being able to play?
She's cute.
Please...it's 'freshwoman' – not "freshman."
It says they played twice during the year, then at the end it says that Mesa was undefeated. So Mesa played two away games at our Lady of Sorrows and beat them twice. It almost seems as though they didn't want to get beat a 3rd time so they used this horrible excuse to get out of playing. I feel bad for the players on both teams.
The Catholics are still living in the dark ages. It sure makes religion look silly doesn't it.
As a society we really, really need to get rid of this archaic way of thinking.
Our Lady of Sorrows = Bedwetting Boys
There's no crying in baseball!
Maybe the Our Lady of Sorrows team was afraid they'd be beaten by a team with a girl on it, LOL