Editing Running up the score (section)

===Lacrosse===

High scores, and wide margins of victory, are not uncommon in [[field lacrosse]]. While there is no [[mercy rule]] ending the game at a certain point, in American high school lacrosse the game is played in running time, with the clock stopped only for timeouts and injuries, should one team open up a lead of 12 goals or more in the second half.

Teams have been criticized for high scores at the expense of weak opponents. In a 2019 college game, [[NCAA Division II]] [[Colorado Mesa Mavericks|Colorado Mesa]] (CMU) defeated [[NCAA Division III|Division III]] [[Johnson & Wales University#Denver campus|Johnson & Wales-Denver]] (J&W) 52–0, setting an NCAA record for most goals, and largest margin of victory, in ''any'' college men's lacrosse game at any level.{{efn|The previous record for Division II had also been set by CMU's 33-0 victory over J&W the previous season.<ref name="GJ Daily Sentinel CMU-J&W story">{{cite news|last=Arnold|first=Patti|title=Colorado Mesa issues apology for men's lacrosse team's blowout win|url=https://www.gjsentinel.com/sports/cmu/colorado-mesa-issues-apology-for-men-s-lacrosse-team-s/article_88b19560-5ce7-11e9-b52a-20677ce06c14.html|newspaper=[[Grand Junction Daily Sentinel]]|date=April 12, 2019|access-date=June 15, 2019}}</ref>}} Among many of the game's lopsided statistics, Johnson & Wales was unable to get a single shot while the victors recorded 81 (68 of which were on goal), won all but three of 56 [[face-off#Field lacrosse|face-offs]] and picked up all but nine of 81 ground balls. Twenty-one of Mesa's players scored at least once, more than all the players J&W put on the field. The game was ended early in the fourth quarter after a Mesa player was injured seriously enough to require hospitalization following the game's final goal.<ref name="SI CMU-J&W lax article">{{cite news|last=Gartland|first=Dan|title=Bloodbath is an understatement|url=https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2019/04/11/thursday-hot-clicks-colorado-mesa-johnson-wales-lacrosse-record|newspaper=[[Sports Illustrated]]|date=April 11, 2019|access-date=June 15, 2019}}</ref>

''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' said it was "perhaps the most one-sided game in the history of NCAA sports", rivaling the [[1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game|Cumberland-Georgia Tech game]].<ref name="SI CMU-J&W lax article" /> CMU was criticized for continuing to [[shot on goal (lacrosse)|shoot on goal]] and not letting the [[shot clock]] (a new rule in NCAA men's lacrosse that season) expire. The university's athletic department later issued a statement apologizing for "the unsportsmanlike nature of the final score", saying that the team's coaches regret the decisions they made which contributed to that outcome and players and fans "deserve better".<ref name="GJ Daily Sentinel CMU-J&W story" />