Halftime Questions

[BillyMac]

Started my new life as a subvarsity official tonight. Girls junior varsity game. Within the first minute I call two easy rebounding fouls on White #44, White's tallest player, one down the offensive end and, after our switch, one down the defensive end. Not an especially rough player just wrong place, wrong time.

For some reason her coach doesn't take her out of the game. In the next minute White #44 and White #13 both push and "sandwich" an opposing player. I've got the whistle. In a split second I decide not to call a multiple foul (I never have called one, never seen one called, I'm not even sure how to penalize) and consciously, intentionally, and deliberately made a decision to charge the foul to White #13 instead of White #44.

I never even tried to think it over and figure out who, if anybody, fouled first, I just knew that I wasn't charging White #44 with her third foul in the first few minutes, all called by me.

I should practice what I preach, but I guess, sometimes I don't.