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NOT UNSPORTING BY DEFINITION
I'm STUNNED that no one has stated this so far, but according to the NFHS definition of an unsporting foul, this clearly does NOT qualify.
RULE 4 Definitions
SECTION 19 FOUL
ART. 13 . . . An unsporting foul is a noncontact technical foul which consists of unfair, unethical or dishonorable conduct.
Bart,
Since your play involved physical contact, it just doesn't qualify as unsporting under NFHS rules, the rules which you specified that tournament follows, no matter how much anyone might want it to.
I too understand what the people who run the tournament are trying to do, but they need to realize that they are using the word "unsporting" in a different manner than the NFHS rules book. They are using the common language definition while the NFHS rules book gives a very narrow and specific meaning to the word which officials must use to categorize the fouls that occur during a game.
Therefore, the tournament directors need to amend their regulation so that it says "two unsporting, intentional, OR flagrant technical fouls charged to one team terminates the game, and that team forfeits."
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