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The basketball team at Washington Math Science Technology Public Charter School hasn’t had an easy inaugural season—and that has nothing to do with whether techies can be jocks. Because the eight schools in the D.C. Public Charter School Athletic League lack adequate gymnasiums, the league crossed the District line to play its games at the Run n’ Shoot gym in District Heights, Md. (“A League of Their Own,” 2/11). But when students scuffled outside the facility after an early March match, Run n’ Shoot booted the league just before its season-ending tournament. At the last minute, organizers managed to rent the gym at Archbishop Carroll High School, a Catholic school on Harewood Road NE. Ultimately, the New Vistas Preparatory Public Charter School girls and the Techworld Public Charter School boys won championships. League officials hope to add tennis and volleyball next year. “We shouldn’t have the same problems we came face to face with this year,” says Torrance Dawkins, athletic director for the Richard Milburn Alternative Public Charter High School. —Laura Lang