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Intentional is not the same as flagrant. I see the severity of the foul as being on the flagrant/non-flagrant continuum. Intentional is fouling and not going for the ball, which can be light or severe.
I called intentional the other night on a girl who reached with both hands and pushed her opponent in the hip, no where near the ball. The coach yelled tht it was a bad call, that she was going for the ball. Laugh! After the game he wanted to talk and he said that he was more upset that we didn't call the 'ticky tack' fouls on his team as they were trying to stop the clock. I said, we didn't call ticky tack fouls for 3 1/2 quarters so we weren't going to call them then. I believe that the time of the game doesn't dictate whether a foul is intentional, rather the 'intent' of the foul. I have called intentional fouls in the first half before.
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