When I went to Mt. View a week ago I saw a few things I had never seen before. This time, I saw two, and a pretty amazing comeback sparked by a player who didn't score all game.

Mt. View won 41-40, after leading by 17 late in the first half. There were a couple of bizarre plays in the fourth quarter.

With 4:39 left in the game, Winslow freshman Elizabeth Ferry was at the foul line for two shots. Ferry's first shot hit the rim, bounced over the backboard and off the padding, then came back down, hit the rim and fell in.

Mt. View coach John Donato and his assistants argued that since the ball hit the top of the backboard, the shot should be no good. The officials counted the shot.

Even more bizarre was the sequence when Ferry fouled out with 2:14 to play. Before Mt. View's Dakota McAdam went to the line for a one-and-one, the players from both teams huddles with their coaches. Winslow coach Tom Nadeau didn't immediately send in a sub for Ferry, and was hit with a technical foul.

McAdam missed her free throw, but Alexis Bennett made one of two, in a game Winslow eventually lost by one.

"You can't look at that as something that cost the game," Nadeau said. "A missed layup, a turnover, a missed shot, a missed block-out on our part on the other end -- one play's not going to decide a game. It's going to be a combination of plays."

Coaches have 30 seconds to send in a sub when a player fouls out. I couldn't think of any reason why this rule should even be on the books -- who does it benefit when a player checks in at the beginning of the huddle, rather than the end?

Then I talked to my colleague Gary Hawkins, who told me that before that 30-second rule was introduced, a coach who was upset that a player fouled out would retaliate by stalling and acting like he couldn't decide who to put in the game, just to irritate the referees.

That does make sense, and the referee apparently called the play as stated in the rule. Still, it's a tough way to get a technical foul. Nadeau was focused on talking to his team, not trying to get back at someone.

Another note from this game: In all the years I've been watching basketball, I can't remember seeing a player score zero points and do so much to help her team as Winslow senior Jade Herman. After entering the game in the second quarter, Herman played about 15-18 minutes, and never took a shot.

But on plays where other players might have hesitated, Herman was making a nice pass or knowing where to be. She also had nine of her team's 36 rebounds. Herman showed a great command of the game's fundamentals, and all the little things she did added up to a big impact.