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Originally Posted by Grrrrller87
When I check the balls before a match, I try to mark each with the same kind of ink marking... then if the ball gets tossed in with some other balls, or rolls to another court and someone starts practice serving it, we can identify this as one of the game balls without having to re-test it.
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I use the net chain to align the antenna, I also mark the ball(s). Here's a few more:
A. In my pre-matches, I tell the LJ's that there are 4 outcomes to a rally: 1) In, 2) Out, 3) Touch, or 4) I didn't see... I stress that "I didn't see" is acceptable and "guessing" is totally unacceptable... it helps.
B. In most matches, I mentally keep track of the score. Especially if another team is the support crew on a youth court... trust me, catching an inaccurate scoreboard "before" the parents quiets them for the rest of the match, and has saved me countless minutes of "clean-up" because a few times it was wrong because the scorekeeper had also forgotten to record the previous point... huge time-saving trick!
C. With no ball shaggers, at the end of each "game" I look to see where the game ball bounced to, so that it can be retrieved for the next game instead of wasting time trying to find it or replace it.
D. I keep a cornucopia of whistles in my bag... inevitably, I'm using the same whistle as both refs on either side of me; therefore the players get confused... so I switch out to a different whistle (sound) for my court's benefit.
Hope this helps.