Unchristian or unladylike?

I don’t normally read sports news but the headline for this story, “Texas girls hoops team seeks forfeit of 100-0 win” caught my eye.
The long and short is that one of these teams was far superior to the other – hence the score. The winning school is a fairly large Christian academy while the losing team’s school is very small focusing on supporting students with learning disabilities. Now the winning team’s school says it wants the forfeit because the game “does not reflect a Christ-like and honorable approach to competition.” I’m guessing an “honorable approach to competition” might also be called unsportsmanlike.
At any rate the story bugs me. Would this be happening with boys teams? Would it have happened if the losing team wasn’t somehow being viewed as “disabled” even though their issues are cognitive rather than physical. Apparently the losing team didn’t even take it that hard. Am I seeing something that isn’t there?

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