According to my good friend Danny Ventura of the Boston Herald, Bridgewater-Raynham emerged the winner in the three-pronged coin flip that determined the Old Colony League's representative in the upcoming MIAA playoffs.
The flip, which was staged earlier this morning at a restaurant in the shadow of the Sagamore Bridge, was forced when Barnstable defeated Attleboro Sunday afternoon and B-R held off Taunton later that evening, creating a three-way tie at the top of the league standings.
With representatives of all three schools flipping coins, Barnstable's coin came up heads and the other two tails, eliminating the Red Raiders immediately. Then it came down to head-to-head competition between B-R and Taunton, and that was that.
I certainly hope someone bought a Happy Meal for the Barnstable reps ... given where that program had been in recent years and how far it has come, it had to be crushing for everything to be riding upon a coin flip.
Leagues have the responsibility of setting their own tiebreaking procedures. The Hockomock, for instance, would eliminate the school that had most recently represented the league in the playoffs in the event of a three-way tie, Other leagues use a mathematical formula similar to the old football ratings.
In any event, I don't think that anyone who saw B-R fend off Attleboro in the waning seconds would doubt the Trojans' credentials. There just has to be a better way to settle these things than pure chance.
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