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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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You would have hoped we had progressed further then this by now. What's really sad is, it was not likely the kids who made the decision to be losers before they even got on the field. What a terrible life lesson.
Well at least they are staying true to their Catholic faith that dictates women are 2nd class citizens.
C'mon Catholisism, get with the times and quit moving at the speed of wood.
Generalizations like that make you look dumb. Think before you type.
Glimroc,
This CNN article fails to mention that Our Lady of Sorrows is a Society of St. Pius X school within the article. The Society of St. Pius X is a Catholic separatist group and not recognized as a Catholic organization by the Vatican.
Give me a break. If my child's prviate, Catholic school pulled something this IDIOTIC, I'd pull my child, and my money, so fast their heads would spin. In this day and age, thinking like that sets society back to the middle ages and makes me embarrassed to share the same faith.
Catholic School Mon,
You don't have to worry. CNN failed to mention that Our Lady of Sorrows is a Society of St. Pius X school within the article. Currently the Society of St. Pius X is a Catholic separatist group and not recognized as a Catholic organization by the Vatican.
You should be embarrassed to share any faith with anyone.
Someone needs to tell this church that Galileo was right – the earch is not the center of the unverse. Once they come out of the dark ages, then we'll see if they can deal with a girl playing sports.
CNN I know you hate the Catholic Church, but I cannot believe you would so distort the facts of a story and throw all Catholics under the bus!
FACT is Our Lady of Sorrows Academy is a Society of St. Pius X (AKA Lefebvrians) school not a Roman Catholic School. The Society of St. Pius X congregation believes that they are Catholic however they are not currently recognized as a Catholic organization by Rome. There are current talks between Lefebvrians and the Vatican about reconciliation but those talks have caused a riff among the leadership within the Society of St. Pius X.
The fact that CNN would fail to mention The Society of St Pius X within the article is the equivalent of leaving out the word radical in front of Muslims when describing the attacks on September 11, 2001.
Just Poor Reporting CNN. Very Poor Reporting!
Thank you – you beat me to this. I am not Catholic, but this misinformation was disturbing. Good post!
The church said they were Catholic....not CNN.
Thank you for the clarification.
The Roman Catholic Church is at war with women. They've thrown nuns under the bus with the recent nun crackdown. And they won't even discuss women's ordination because the disciples were all men. Who gave birth to Jesus? Man had nothing do with that one. And who did Jesus appear to first after the resurrection and is called the apostle to the apostles?
Sorrows, indeed. Losers.
Religion is the cause of almost every problem this world has.
Too true
Baseball is boring as hell anyway
This is what religion is teaching these days? Wow, just wow
Religion just screws everything up, doesn't it? What a waste of time and energy this archaic, mind-control tactic is. We've killed more people in the name of religion than anything else...way to go. yay you.
"Our Lady's" baseball coach must be the sissiest coach in America.
Sounds like they were just scared of getting beat. As a Catholic, I find the Church's overall treatment of woman unacceptable.
Silly Catholics, such antiquated and rudimentary beliefs. Its cute
Also to anyone saying "would boys be aloud to play on a girls team" get real. You can't make that comparison. FACT Men are built differently than women. Also FACT Some women can still compete with men and if they can they should be able to play. Men going to play with women is simply not fair. Not because men are better than women necessarily but in the majority of cases men are stronger, faster and more agile and that's just genetics.
Derek,
This CNN article fails to mention that Our Lady of Sorrows is a Society of St. Pius X school within the article. The Society of St. Pius X is a Catholic separatist group and not recognized as a Catholic organization by the Vatican.
Just more of the same from "The Church of Holier Than Thou"!
Really, are we even surprised anymore when so-called religious people use their "faith" to discriminate against others?
Religion – the world's ultimate dividing force.
I'm reminded EVERY day why I left the Catholic Church. Knuckle draggers..
Jennifer,
This is not a Roman Catholic school. CNN has failed to mention that Our Lady of Sorrows is a Society of St. Pius X school within the article. The Society of St. Pius X is a Catholic separatist group and not recognized as a Catholic organization by the Vatican.
and they are none the worse because you left.
As a Catholic, I am offended by both your characterization of Catholics as "knuckle draggers", by Our Lady of Sorrows stance on the issue, and by the article's representation of what some would consider an extremist group as mainstream Catholicism. I went to Catholic schools and we had a co-ed soccer team. This is why Muslims view the war on terror as a war against Muslims, because enlightened people such as yourself will label, generalize and characterize an entire group based on the actions of a few extremists. While it may be a catholic school, do you stop to consider that perhaps some of their views come from outside of their religion?