[DownTownTonyBrown]

Girls Varsity game last evening. I called my first elbow swinging violation of the season. I was so excited that I yelled it out in the direction of the coaches and the scorer's table then had to go over to the scorers and explain my mistake ... that this was just a violation like a travel call, and that I didn't need to explicitly tell them about it. They kindly said that I hadn't confused them.

The coach was a bit excited and felt his player was properly pivoting - arms and body moving together. I just shook my head and said "No. White ball."

All in all, this was an extemely ugly game; You all know how we can generally get through a game with 20 to maybe 30 fouls. I'm certain we called more than 50 - we reached double bonus for at least one of the teams in the 1st quarter and again in the 3rd.

Our first player to foul out was about a minute into the 3rd quarter. I think only 4 or 5 players fouled out but that was likely because we passed on twice as many fouls as we called.

We did well in that we avoided any "T" situations - no one got too terribly bent out of shape. There has got to be a better solution than call more fouls. Anyone want to offer up some ideas?