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Originally posted by DownTownTonyBrown
This is not the same as Out Of Bounds.
A1, trapped by B2 & B3 in BC with ball just shy of division line. B2 & B3 are in the FC. A1 attempts pass. B3 jumps (from FC) and blocks pass back into A1's hands.
This is not a BC violation. Trying to pull some similarities to the OOB situation, some of you are basically arguing that it would be a BC violation because the ball achieved FC status when B3 blocked the pass and that A1 'caused' the ball to regain BC status because he is standing in the BC. Not true - read Rule 9-12-2.
This is obviously not a BC violation because Team A never had FC control. It doesn't meet the requirements of Article 2 because B3 touched the ball. So it is not the same as the blocked OOB play where the thrower "causes" the ball to go OOB by catching it while OOB.
The rules do not say anything about the ball must have BC status before Team A may touch it after Team B was last to touch in FC.
I think some of you are adding more than what the rule says.
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Your first situation (A1 trapped by B3 and B2) doesn't apply in this case because A never had possesion in the frontcourt. That definitely wouldn't be a backcourt violation. In the situation described, A had the ball in frontcourt and it was deflected towards the backcourt by B. Also, are you sure on Rule 9-12-2? In the Rule Book I'm looking at, Rule 9 (Violations and Penalties) Section 12 is Goaltending, or am I not looking in the right spot? Rule 9-9-1 states that A player shall not...
Be the first to touch a ball after it has been in team control in the frontcourt, if he/she or a teammate last touched or was touched by the ball in the frontcourt before it went in the backcourt."
However, I'm not sure that exactly applies becuse the ball never got to the backcourt until A touched it again.