Arizona high school Our Lady of Sorrows forfeited a championship baseball game because the opposing team had a girl playing second base.
The Arizona Charter Athletic Association state championship baseball game wasn’t played Thursday night because Mesa Prep’s second baseman is a girl.
Paige Sultzbach, a freshman, is playing baseball because her high school doesn’t offer girls softball. But the school Mesa Prep was to face in the final, Our Lady of Sorrows Academy, said its boys would not compete against a team with a girl and forfeited the game – and the state title – to Mesa Prep.
“As a Catholic school, we promote the ideal of forming and educating boys and girls separately during the adolescent years, especially in physical education,” Our Lady of Sorrows said in a statement, according to CNN affiliate KTVK.
They have that right, I guess — but denying their own students the opportunity to win the championship they had played for, and tainting the other teams’ championship with a default, seems pretty lame and unsportsmanlike to me.
