I thought this was kind of cool. Mercer Island Northwest Yeshiva girl's basketball team forfeited their playoff consolation bracket game because it interfered with the Jewish "Fast of Esther", and Northwest Yeshiva is an Orthodox Jewish school. The Fast of Esther is a one day dusk-til-dawn fast to commemorate the three-day fast of Purim. Purim is the celebration of Esther's deliverance of the Jews in the Persian Empire from Haman's plot to have them all killed, as told in the Book of Esther in the Bible. This is a very important holiday to Jews, especially female Jews.

I'm disappointed the state athletic association couldn't reschedule the game, especially since the school was so pro-active in addressing the issue beforehand. In any case, it is nice to see some girls showing that sometimes, there are things more important than sports.