High School Boys Basketball: Pascagoula ghosted during ‘War on the Shore’
If the year 2020 wasn’t already strange enough, the Pascagoula boys basketball team is still scratching its head following one of the most bizarre on-court moments you’ll ever see at any level.
On Saturday, the Panthers were playing Brother Martin out of New Orleans at the 30th annual War on the Shore hosted by St. Stanislaus.
They were leading 18-16 midway through the second quarter when Crusaders Head Coach Chris Biehl inexplicably slammed his clipboard to the ground, effectively calling game and not the good kind.
Pascagoula Head Coach Lorenzo Wright admits a missed traveling call is what made the opposition travel all the way back home without finishing the game or issuing an apology after the fact.
Now an important teaching tool for his players on what not to do. “We kind of laughed at it. It was kind of one of those things where we couldn’t believe what just happened cause they’ve never experienced it, I’ve never experienced it and we’ve just kind of adopted a mindset of to try to make teams quit. So, it’s just one of those things. We talked about not quitting. We always talk about overcoming adversity, and even though sometimes in life you get bad calls, you get bad breaks, you get things that happen to you, that doesn’t mean you have to quit and you’ve just got to find a way to press on through.”
After Saturday’s forfeit and last night’s win over West Harrison, the Panthers are now 9-2 heading into the Christmas break.
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