Current Events

As every minute passes a new moment is documented, and posted online.  Yet today I saw an event thatcaught my eye.  Well I was on CNN.com I saw an article called "Baseball final forfeited because of girl at second Base."  This intruiged me, as the society we live in today is very accepting.
The story highlighted how Paige Shultzbach, is good enough to play with the boys, since he school no longer has softball.

It also talks about how the team was undefeated and about to play their championship game, against another Catholic schoool whom they had played twice before during that season.
Paige had sat out those games in respect to that school, especially since it was on their home turf.  Yet when it came to the Championship game on a nuetral field, Paige wanted to play, which is understandable.
The opposing school saw Paige, and decided immediately they would not play against a girl, it was against their ideals of seperating boys ang girls, especaillyin sports, therefore Paige's team won.

I have two questions from this story.
1.) In this day and age, isn't this considered sexist?
2.) If the teams had played together before wouldn't they have noticed Paige in uniform on the bench and been curious, wouldn't someone on the team have noticed her, and how did the students feel about it?

And here's a discussion question for fun:
How would you feel if you were in Paige's shoes, what would you have done?