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[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

The officials cannot charge a team a technical foul for six players on the court when the officials put the sixth player on the court. B6 came onto the court when beckoned by the trail official. The trail official screwed up.

True play. Throw-in on the sideline, table side, by Team A. I am the administering official. Substitutes for Team A come in the game. I count four players for Team A between me and my partner, who is in the lead position opposite the table (this is still when we officiated Cadillac) signals me to put the ball into play. The fifth A player approached me from her team's backcourt. As she got past me I handed her the ball for a throw-in. She looked kind of startled and then passed the ball into a teammate. It is then I saw a fifth A player on the court. I stopped that game for a technical foul for six players on the court. I only saw four players because the fifth unseen player was very small and she was behind a tall player. The player I gave the ball to for the throw-in was one of the players who were coming out of the game. My mistake put six A players on the court. No technical foul. No muss, no fuss. Team A got the ball for a throw-in and the game went on.