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Our well-behaved boys... mostly
Our well-behaved boys... mostly
Two major feathers in the cap of our program were the two awards you see at left. The team "earned" just four yellow cards in 19 games that season, which isn't too shabby. That said, our 2006 team picked up only three in 18, but these awards didn't exist back then.
Below you will see stats/details of how many yellow and/or red cards have been issued in our games over these many years. The records are fairly accurate and dependable, thanks to reliable scorekeepers like Sam Shank, Kevin Konrad, Sarah Kessler, and the late 1980s terrific trio of Ann Garibaldi, Monica Oring (Opdycke) and Amy Passant (Weir).
Just seven times since 1986 have we "out-carded" our opponents. I think we can all be proud of that.
Note: In the mid-2000s, the National Federation of High Schools (NFHS) changed the rules for cautions. Prior to then, a yellow was a yellow, and a red was a red unless it was two yellows. There was a one-game suspension for players who got a red in the 1970s and '80s, but that grew to two games in the '90s. So after the 2004 season, a yellow card was still a yellow card, and a red card was still used after violent conduct (resulting in a two-game suspension), but the NFHS created the concept of the yellow-red - used if a player gets two yellow cards in the same game (resulting in him being out of that game, but no additional suspension). You'll see (yy) or (yr) in the Red Card column up above if one of the reds that season wasn't for one of the "seven deadly sins."
And in case you were wondering, Coach Zerbey did NOT receive a card as a result of his discussion with the referee you see pictured at right, taken during the 2009 District Final at Bay.
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