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Sunny,
Thanks for your story! We have been going round and round on this thread about when we should or should not (and what we CAN or CANNOT do by rule). But your story points out that ideally, we should not have to deal with fans.
Of course we don't always have an ideal situation, do we? I agree with most on here who have said that most of the time we should just ignore anything going on outside the fence. If someone is getting disruptive to the point where I just can't ignore it, then I am going to the coach (both of them if need be) or a league/tournament director (we never have ADs at our high school games unfortunatly) and ask them to get it under control.
We can argue all day over whether or not I have rule book authority to toss a fan; but I do have authority to stop the game until someone takes care of the problem. Or, as Mike points out if the situation were to warrent I will call the police (I am pretty sure that outside the fence IS their jurisdiction) and make a complaint when they arrive. I have never had it go that far yet, but that is my standing game plan.
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