Stupid
Apparently an Arizona Catholic High School forfeited their state finals because the other team was playing *gasp* a girl at second base. I am not really familiar with this sports league they are in -- it must be made up of smaller schools who choose not to join the AIA, which is the league most high schools (including ours) play in.
These are private schools in a private league, so I guess they can do whatever they want, but this just seems bizarre in the extreme. I would guess that their players were irate.
My son plays in the smaller division of the AIA, and we run into teams that play girls from time to time in baseball and a bunch of schools that play girls on their soccer team (the rule generally is that girls can play on the boys team if there is no girls' equivalent of that sport at the school). I have never before heard of another Catholic school having a problem with this, and given that this is Arizona, there are a lot of Catholic schools knocking about.
In fact, I always find it kind of cool to see girls out there. I remember a few weeks ago we were playing a team who had a girl at third base who the boys thought was pretty attractive. I laughed pretty hard when my son took a big chance to stretch a double into a triple. I knew exactly what he was doing --he wanted to be on third base!
I suppose this will be a better object lesson for the Catholic boys than any gender-equality propaganda film. Adopt Victorian attitudes about women, lose the chance to play for a state championship.
