Marked Men

[RushmoreRef]

Went into a game the other night in which we knew we had players from both teams that are a handful (physical, talkers, the whole deal)...We'll say they are A1 and B1.

With about 5 minutes to go in the half, A1 fouls B1 hard from behind on a rebound and both fall to the ground in front of me (C) with their legs tangled. I run in to separate and as I get there A1 tries to get up in a hurry and B1 grabs A1's leg because they are all tangled. A1 responds by kicking her leg, not at B1 but kicking it to get loose. During all this I'm right there saying "relax" and "up easy".... Neither I or my partners see any kicks land but it looked ugly and the crowd's reacted accordingly.

We're in front of B's bench and their coach goes nuts saying "She kicked her right in the face" and calls timeout mostly to yell at me about how cheap the other girl is and how much problem they had with her last season, he wants her tossed and we've got nothing....I explain that the kick didn't land and was instigated by his girl grabbing her foot....He wouldn't leave it alone so I finally said "that's what I've got, you don't have to like it but we're going with it".....

Going by that, should I have done what I did....or a double T since they were both girls that have been problems in the past? B's coach would have gotten a "T" 9 times out of 10 but I don't "whack him" because of the situation that led up to it...Right or Wrong?