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Originally posted by Snaqwells
Another thing I noticed during the game last night, amidst our 16 held balls in the first game, was that there's a major difference in the held ball mentality between the girls and the boys. With the girls, getting the held ball seems to be the goal. With the boys, a held ball is a consolation prize for not getting the ball ripped away quickly enough.
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Stayed and watched some of the varsity games Wednesday night. In the girls game, two opposing players tie it up, but the home team player tries so hard to tear it away that she literally flings the other player about four feet through the air. She lands on her backside and skids another couple of feet.
Isn't that pretty much exactly the definition of a held ball? Two players holding it so tightly that neither can get it away without using undue force? Usually you give them a second or two to see if either of them will get it away, right? This one happened very quickly: visitor grabs it, home team player sends her flying! Based on the observation that they were obviously holding plenty tightly and that undue force was required to extricate the ball, perhaps this should have been called a held ball?
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