A W spelled "l-o-s-s"

 You can start up the jokes now, at South Bend Washington's expense. God knows the school's girls basketball coach and athletic director deserve every one of them.

So, who you gonna schedule next? Lebowski's Little Achievers?

What, Lollipop Acres Daycare wasn't available?

Only 100 points?

And so on. And so forth.

So on, so forth, and, man, what a spectacle, that girls basketball game between the Washington Panthers and Gary Lighthouse College Preparatory Academy the other day. The Panthers won 100-0, and, no, that's not a misprint. The final score really was 100-0.

How embarrassing.

For South Bend Washington, not Gary Lighthouse.

Washington, see, is a loaded outfit fueled by a senior class that won a 4A state championship as sophomores and a regional title as juniors. Lighthouse is a 2A school with an enrollment of 496 that has now lost 29 straight games. Last year the Lions played just nine games and lost them all by, shall we say, comfortable margins.

So, yeah, it was gonna be a slaughter.

And, yeah, Washington head coach Steve Reynolds has every reason to sound as defensive as he sounds about it.

"I get penalized when I go out of state, as far as rankings and the girls trying to make the Indiana All-Star teams and all those kinds of things," Reynolds told Austin Hough of the South Bend Tribune. "So, this year, I'm like 'OK, I'm going to try and stay in Indiana as much as I can.'

"But when we call teams, they don't want to play us, so then we have to go to that second tier of teams, and my (athletic director Garland Hudson) is trying to do the best he can."

That's how Gary Lighthouse, which scored just 80 points in their nine games last season, was scheduled less than a month before the season. It should never have happened. Hudson should have either tried harder, or not tried at all.

In other words, if he and Reynolds can't find someone to play, then you don't play. Or  you suck it up and schedule out-of-state anyway, because if there are girls on the Washington team good enough to be Indiana All-Stars, they're going to be Indiana All-Stars regardless.

Besides, you think that farce the other day helped their chances? Really?

Look, no one gets anything out of such a "game", least of all South Bend Washington. It doesn't help them get better; you can even argue it makes them worse because if you're opponent is that uncompetitive you can get away with ignoring the fundamentals that make you good. 

So, there's that. 

South Bend Washington 100, Gary Lighthouse 0?

Yeah, it'll show up as a W for the Panthers in the record book. But it'll look for all the world like it's spelled "l-o-s-s".