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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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Wow, that school apparently starts them young on the self-righteous moral superiority. Stop making Catholic schools look bad, guys. I'm a deist who loved her Catholic K-8 and high schools, because a good education and peaceful learning environment don't have to come with a heaping side of ugly exclusionism.
To chiefobob – Yes, I think that you have got it right. We shouldn't be down on the youngsters, because they probably didn't have anything to do with the decision.
Our Lady of Sorrows Academy... Yeh it's a pretty sad school. This is pathetic. The schools decision to forfeit did not stand up for jack (other than some prudish council's beliefs). They only took away the players opportunity to play for something they worked so hard to get to. If it were my kid, I'd be looking for another school...
As long as she is wearing a cup I have no problem with this.
I believe she was wearing two. And that was the problem. She had a distinct equipment advantage.
For catholic school that's still progressive, at least they didn't burn her for being a witch.
Of course, women are inferior to men.
Actually, lot of Americans really believe in that (ask GOP's base).
That is ridiculous. I would be very upset if I were on either team.
“It takes tremendous moral courage to stand by what it is you believe, and they are doing what they think is right,”
Even if what you believe is DUMB AS HELL?
Hitler stood up for what he thought was right too and killed 6 million people to prove his point. Being a bigotted mob, a/k/a an all boys baseball team doesn't take much courage. Sounds about right for Arizona, 18 boys against one girl.
Yet another colossal example of the bigotry that abounds in Arizona. Should put a fence around it and charge admissions. Sounds like the perfect place for the KKK and Nazi party. Come to think of it, it is!
They should have played, and kicked the chick teams butt. They could have always "beaned" her and took her out of the game like they try in the pro's....
Afraid shed wax them. Puzzys.
I thought Arizona is done with its weird stuff, but what do I know. Arizonians outdid it.
They were just afraid the girl would clean their clocks!
There is a possibility that these boys were raised in a way that they saw the possibility of running into a girl as wrong.
What a bunch of idiots in Arizona. Unreal.
Don't blame Arizona, blame the pin-heads in the Catholic church.
You just wrote off an entire state of your fellow countrymen because of one sensationalized story in the mainstream media. Who's the idiot, dude?
Now I know why people fear Sharia Law. Because they've seen what the Catholics are capable of. Honestly, the source of all evil in this world is religion. Pretty sure it was invented by Satan. And he's laughing his ass off these days.
I'm concerned about an American Taliban trying to establish a form of Sharia law in America. However, I'm not as concerned with the Catholics as the Evangelicals. That seems to be the group that's trying to control my bedroom and the rest of my home. That also seems to be the group that is trying to systematically do away with any law protecting women's rights. These pseudo-Catholics are radical extremists that are too extreme for the rest of the Catholic church; not much to see there.