Girls Basketball Team Posts 100-0 Victory

There have been some incredible streaks in the history of organized sports that amaze us, exemplifying the very best and worst of athletic accomplishment. These performances inspire hours of water-cooler chatter and supply topics to media on slow days.

The 1972 Miami Dolphins perfect season.

Cal Ripken Jr. playing in 2,632 consecutive games.

Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak.

Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point performance.

But we now have another sports performance to live in infamy, courtesy of two girls high school basketball teams in Texas.

The Covenant School cagers defeated Dallas Academy 100-0 last week.

Yes, Covenant scored 100 straight points while allowing Dallas to put nothing on the scoreboard.

This incredible story has opened a proverbial can of worms, leading many to protest on the Covenant's apparent unawareness that they were completely throttling their opponent.

The Covenant raced out to a 59-0 lead at halftime. After the start of the second half, spectators stated that the Covenant persisted in their offensive attack, utilizing a stifling full-court press and deadly three-point shooting. The Covenant did however appear to cool their jets once they had reached triple digits, with about four minutes left to play.

Eight girls from Dallas Academy are listed on the varsity basketball roster, which represents 40 percent of their entire school's female population, 20, compared to the 400 of the Covenant School.

While many criticize the coach and his team running such a ridiculous score, we must remember that there was a time where success was looked upon benevolently in our society. Surely no one would have picked Dallas to defeat the Covenant, so the margin of defeat was perhaps greater than foreseen, but not completely surprising.

Is there a difference between a defeat 100-0 or 110-10 loss? Perhaps, but we would likely have gone our entire lives and never heard about The Covenant School or Dallas Academy if the score was different.

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