KETTLE
FALLS - Ted Pancoast submitted his resignation on Monday after an incident in
the late moments of Saturday night's 64-54 overtime loss at Liberty Bell.Pancoast said the incident involved a parent of one his players. According to Pancoast, the parent, who was sitting in the stands at the time, yelled a profanity at Pancoast late in the game.
"There are a lot of things that I'd just as soon not get into," Pancoast said on Monday after he told his players, assistant coaches and district administrators of his decision to resign 14 games into his first season as head coach. "I just thought on the way home (from Liberty Bell) that it wasn't worth it. There are other problems too," added Pancoast, who declined to elaborate. "But I couldn't sleep the last couple of days after that happened (at Liberty Bell). It just isn't worth the physical and emotional toll. For my physical health, this is the best thing for me to do."
Pancoast wasn't very happy about the scheduling of a tough Northeast A League road trip to Freeman on Friday night and a Saturday road trip into the mountains of the Methow Valley.
The biggest winter storm of the season had dropped anywhere from six to a foot of snow around the region Friday and Saturday. Numerous high school games and wrestling matches were either cancelled or rescheduled because of the weather. But KF's long road trip to Winthrop went on as scheduled.
"We shouldn't have been down there," Pancoast said of that Saturday road trip. "I didn't get home until 4 a.m. Sunday."
By all accounts, Pancoast and his staff had done a solid job in fashioning an 8-6 record through early January. The highlight to date was a rare State 1A top-ten ranking after the Lady Bulldogs upset then top-ranked Brewster.
The Bulldog girls' program has enjoyed little success in its history. Losses have far outnumbered wins. That trend appeared to be changing this season.