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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2017
Horse Club returning for young equestrians in January
C&M Stables has announced
the Horse Club for equestrians
between ages of 6 and 18 will
soon begin its second session
of the 2017-18 school year.
The weekly one-hour pro-
gram enables Horse Club
members to build on the skills
learned in the previous weeks
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profanity while addressing his
players during a timeout. I
warned him that any further
profanity would result in a for-
feit.
After the game, two
Hillsboro parents told me they
were glad I did admonish their
coach
for
language.
Apparently, he had been using
it all season. When I returned
home I wrote a letter to the
Hillsboro athletic director and
principal about the coach’s
behavior.
In the next four years, I did
not see this coach again.
In 1974, while officiating a
Pacific University JV basket-
ball game against Concordia
Community College, I gave a
bench technical for a profanity
yelled as I ran past their bench.
When the coach insisted I
point to the offending player, I
told him it came from a bench
player. There were no specta-
tors behind the bench area, so it
definitely came from their
bench. Since I could not identi-
fy the player, he took his team
from the court and forfeited.
The Pacific Athletic director
wrote a letter stating Concordia
Pacific would no longer sched-
ule games against them.
I was head girls basketball
coach at Spray High School
during the 1975-76 season.
and use hands-on techniques to
learn safety around horses,
grooming and riding. The pro-
gram also reviews horse and
tack parts, and provides written
handouts on its major sections.
The program goals are for
members to learn the basic fun-
damentals of horsemanship,
how much fun it is to ride and
what wonderful animals horses
are. The afterschool classes last
for 15 weeks, beginning the
week of Jan. 29, and ending the
week of May 13.
To sign up for Horse Club,
stop by C&M Stables, 8 miles
north of Florence at 90241
Highway 101, between the
hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
seven days a week.
C&M Stables was estab-
lished in 1981 by Florence
native Jeff Chastain.
For more information, call
the stables at 541-997-7540.
During the season, I was given
no less than 12 technical fouls.
Each one given was due to the
officials’ administering of the
rules of the game. They were
not about their judgment calls.
It was not until the following
year that I discovered why they
were so poorly trained as offi-
cials.
The next basketball season
there were not enough girls to
have a Spray girls’ team. So I
traveled to the John Day
Referee Association to be certi-
fied. When I arrived, there
were some shocked faces in the
room. Some of these same offi-
cials had given me technical
fouls the previous season.
I paid my dues and we went
into a room. The president of
the association passed out the
final test as we entered the
room. For the next two hours
the test answers were discussed
and answered as a group. This
made sure they all passed.
There was no on-court train-
ing and we were told weekly
assignments would be given
out each Monday.
No wonder I got so many
technical fouls; many of these
officials simply didn’t know
the rules or their enforcement
policies.
Two things happened that
year that showed me they still
held a grudge. The first came
while I was the home-book
scorekeeper. A foul was called
near half court. It was a terri-
ble call and as I marked it in the
book I shook my head in disbe-
lief.
The official calling the foul
saw my head shake and gave
me a technical. When he came
to the scorers’ table, I said
“What? You have got to be kid-
ding me. No one saw that head
shake but you.”
Bam! He gave me another.
The next incident occurred
while I was watching our Spray
boys play a game in Mitchell.
While watching the game, a
foul occurred that should have
put a Spray player on the foul
line.
Instead, the official
awarded the ball out of bounds
for a Spray throw-in.
I yelled from the bleachers
for our player to not throw it in
and lose the free throw oppor-
tunities. After my second yell, I
got a technical and another for
questioning his authority. They
had rabbit ears for my voice
and hawk eyes for head shakes.
So as basketball season
begins, remember the officials
can give a technical to keep the
game under their control.
Or possibly because they
don’t like you.
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