My first ejection!

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by fiasco

Girls Jr High game this morning. Game has been pretty chippy throughout, but starts getting really bad when, in the 3rd quarter, my partner calls a T on H1 for trying to knee a girl as she ran by.

How do you try to knee someone as they run by?

[fiasco]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

How do you try to knee someone as they run by?

Um. You bring your knee up towards their body in an attempt to make contact.

Not sure how else to explain that.

She didn't just "stick her knee out." She brought it up in attempt to strike the other girl but stopped short before she did. Plus, the look on her face spoke volumes.

[rngrck]

Thats a tuff one. I might have called intentional foul at that point based on the type of rough play you describe going on all game. From letting them play all game to a T on a particular play may have incited coach a bit. Especially if you had a close game.

[fiasco]

Originally Posted by rngrck

Thats a tuff one. I might have called intentional foul at that point based on the type of rough play you describe going on all game. From letting them play all game to a T on a particular play may have incited coach a bit. Especially if you had a close game.

Forgot to mention that I had already called an intentional foul on white earlier in the quarter.

Either way, I'm not sure an intentional foul covers this type of act, does it?

[rngrck]

You mean on the same player? If not, it doesn't matter how many you call in a game. If you call enough of them on that same player, she's going to foul out soon.

[fiasco]

Originally Posted by rngrck

You mean on the same player? If not, it doesn't matter how many you call in a game. If you call enough of them on that same player, she's going to foul out soon.

No, different player.

During the course of the game, white had two different players called for technical fouls, one player called for an intentional foul and the coach ejected for two direct technicals.

And, even though it was a close game throughout, they still won.

[zebraman]

Originally Posted by rngrck

Thats a tuff one. I might have called intentional foul at that point based on the type of rough play you describe going on all game. From letting them play all game to a T on a particular play may have incited coach a bit. Especially if you had a close game.

Not an option - an official can't call an intentional foul without contact.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by fiasco

Um. You bring your knee up towards their body in an attempt to make contact.

Not sure how else to explain that.

She didn't just "stick her knee out." She brought it up in attempt to strike the other girl but stopped short before she did. Plus, the look on her face spoke volumes.

As the girl "ran" by?

[fiasco]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

As the girl "ran" by?

Yes.

[mick]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

How do you try to knee someone as they run by?

Ha! Good question.
I had never seen it until a GV Thursday night.
In a mess under the basket, A1 grabbed a rebound [in front] and tried to dribble to the other side of the basket. B1 lifted her knee above the waist to impede. Quite strange.
But all I had was a block.