With just five seconds remaining in a Texas schoolgirls regional basketball final, the match's referees have inexplicably run off the court after being unable to decide the conditions under which a late foul occurred, and declared the game over!
Run, refs, run! Source: YouTube
That was clearly the only thought going through the heads of these three basketball referees when they stuffed up a pivotal call in double overtime.
There was a lot riding on the game — it was a regional final between two girls' high school teams. Basketball doesn't get any bigger.
The Celina Ladycats were trailing Argyle by just one point with 4.8 seconds left. Kynese Davis, otherwise known as the miniature, female reincarnation of Michael Jordan, was racing up the court with the ball. She snapped a last ditch shot from behind the three point line.
FOUL! Davis was fouled as she shot the ball, with time still left on the clock. She strolled to the free throw line, ready to sink two buckets and win the game.
There was just one problem. The referees hadn't called the foul. They got it all wrong.
As both teams looked on, completely dumbfounded, the three officials fled the court. Or, as ocker Aussie rugby star Nick Cummins might say, they scarpered from the scene like rats up a drainpipe.
We haven't seen a finer set of Forrest Gump impersonations in years.
Their Forrest Gump impersonations were very convincing. Source: News Limited
The missed call was so ridiculous that the Ladycats' coach, Jordan Davis, ran after the fleeing referees yelling, 'Are you kidding me!?"
Obviously, the officials were too busy scarpering to explain their decision at the time. A statement was released later, implying they'd made a judgment call that time had run out before the foul.
It hadn't. And that still doesn't explain why they left the court so briskly.
One veteran referee said it was "the worst ending to a basketball game I've ever seen in my many years of officiating".
That just about sums it up.
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