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Girls freshman game last night where home team was clearly better than the visitor and had doubled the visitors score at halftime.
Mid-way through the third period the visitors get a defensive rebound and she holds it above her head. Smaller home team player reaches up and pulls hard on the ball, resulting in visiting player on her back on the ground and home player with the ball. I was trail on opposite side with all this taking place right about on the lane line, opposite side, about second block from the bottom.
It was clearly all ball, not a bit of skin attached. It was also clearly in my partners area. There's probably 6 or so players around this, so a few bodies but with the ball up high we had a clear view.
Within a few seconds home girl gets stipped (Beavis he said "home girl gets stripped") and visitors recover. Girl is still on the floor, maybe three seconds has elapsed. I blow my whistle and signal that I have a time out.
Girl is sobbing a bit and coach is a bit hostile but nothing severe at all. Player gets up a few seconds later and walks to the bench, we have a sub and move on.
Partner and I talked about it later and both agreed a very clean steal. We had generally been letting them play, even letting them wrestle a bit for held balls so we wouldn't have 15 held ball whistles.
We thought later that we could have blown the whistle immediately when she hit the floor and called a held ball, but the home and visiting girls only simultaneously held it for a second. It happened in a flash. "Without undue roughness comes to mind".
Given the score (home team up maybe 25-11) and player ability, what do you recommend?
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