Guarding/Screening Equals Block/Charge Play.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

This was a H.S. game played under NFHS Rules. That said, despite the Secondary Defender (NFHS and NCAA Men's/Women's), RAs (NCAA Men's/Women's), and Lower Defensive Box (NCAA Women's) the Guarding and Screening Rules have not changed for over 60 years except that "Establish" was changed to "Obtain" in the NFHS Rules in the late 1990s (and that is a story for another time) and the requirement that the Defender in the Guarding Rule and the Screener in the Screening Rule must be entirely Inbounds (NFHS and NCAA Men's/Women's).

I will give a hint as to how to adjudicate this play: Think the Screening Rule and not the Guarding Rule.

MTD, Sr.