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rainmaker,
To eject a player for a flagrant, I think you want to be sure the action was of a particularly severe nature. If the girl had gotten "out of control," that suggests a number of contact situations that you should be calling fouls on. How to sit her down? Keep calling those fouls (and keep watching her off-ball to catch those), and the coach will likely have to sit her down to prevent fouling out. If a foul involved significant contact, but was not really purposefully trying to hurt someone, possibly call an intentional foul (either because it was on purpose or involved excessive contact). Then talk to the girl off to the side to tell her to knock it off if she wants to keep playing. Most flagrant contact fouls are going to be obvious to the fans, unless it's an elbow thrown in a crowd but with clear intent (i.e., not part of protecting the ball after getting a rebound). Other flagrant fouls could be technicals : trash talking, particularly vulgar language directed at an opponent or at an official, a hard shove during a dead ball (e.g., after a made basket) where the player falls or slams into the wall, etc. These aren't all necessarily automatic flagrants, but could be depending on their severity. For example, a "mild" shove after a made basket could/should be a normal technical, while the hard shove that sends someone flying could be flagrant. A flagrant does not have to be fighting only. But . . . judgment calls, yes!
[Edited by Todd VandenAkker on Jan 24th, 2001 at 11:02 AM]
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