FAIRFIELD — For the past three years, Fairfield High School athletic director Mike Schmidt has conducted a junior officiating clinic with the help of Montana Officials Association referees mentoring the event.

As a byproduct of the clinic, six students from Fairfield have joined the MOA and are now officiating middle school and younger basketball games.

"We've had some evaluations from other refs and basically it's been a lot of experience," Fairfield senior Deron Lear said of getting involved with MOA. "Took some classes online, watched videos."

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"I had to take a test that (the Montana High School Association) sent out and had to do a concussion protocol," Fairfield freshman C

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