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I made contact with a player while stepping between two players who I thought were about to go at it. In the process I totally forgot that I signaled intentional foul when I first blew my whislte (which was correct). I'm very lucky the player didnt cold clock me... As I blew the whistle I closed down hard. A1 was yaking and B1 turned around suddenly and said something... it was that point in time I got inbetween them and accidently bumped B1 with my chest which is an aggressive type of body language. I didnt intent to bump him but I did. I've never been in a situation where I felt like I had to step in between two players. I walked with B1 to the bench and told the coach he should probably sub him before B1 recieved a technical foul. It was a close game. Meanwhile... I go to finally report the foul and I totally forgot about the intentional call 1 and 1. A coach goes balistic. sayingYOU CALLED AN INTENTIONAL! So I asked my partner and he said with all the follwoing stuff that insued he forgot. So we gave them the one and one.

Things I learned:
1)If two players wanna go for it - let them do it and take numbers.
2)Only step inbetween players if they're more than 4 feet apart so you dont accidently bump a player
3)ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS make mental note of the foul you signaled before you started trying to keep the game from tunring into a wrestling match.
4)Again, if two players wanna do something referee the fight and penalize accordingly.

A cardinal sin, making contact with a player. It just totally took me out of my game because soon as I got him away from A1 I'm thinking oh crap I just became the aggressor!

So thats my story...