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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
While it is this type of violation by the letter of the rule, this is not the type of action intended to be covered by this rule. It is written in the context of a defender covering the thrower and preventing the thrower from being able to make a throw. It was never intended to apply to a player half way down the line that is in no way affecting what the thrower can do. This is not something I'm going to call. Likewise, I'm not calling a violation on a teammate of the thrower for stepping on the line while trying to get open in a similar location.
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Camron,
Are you aware that at the NCAA level, the defender can't break the boundary plane until the ball does? So even a defender near the intended recipient of a throw-in pass 25ft away from the thrower would be covered by this rule should the pass be at a sharp angle. In other words, the rule is intended to apply to this at the NCAA level, so I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss it at the HS level.