Oh oh, now what?

[Rita C]

Three man, I'm lead. I don't remember what lead up to this point but A1 jumps to keep a ball from going out of bounds on C's sideline. Her momentum carries her out of bounds. Ball heads toward endline, same player comes inbounds and jumps to pull ball back inbounds again. Her momentum carries her out of bounds again. C whistles.

Soon one of the coaches calls a timeout. I run to partner and asked him why he whistled the ball dead. He said, "She had gone out of bounds and was the first to touch the ball inbounds. That's illegal."

At halftime, I find out my other partner agrees with him. I'm a bit of a rules nut, so I'm wondering where this rule is since all I can remember is that a thrower can't be the first to touch the ball on a throw-in. If I missed this rule, there's more I don't know, so I want to find it.

After the game, I'm talking with one of the officials on the C game. I describe the situation and she says, "Why would that be illegal?" I agreed with her, but it wouldn't be the first time I didn't understand the why for a rule.

During the varsity game she and I finally find 7.1.1 in the casebook. Surprise! She and I had it right.

Our next question was, how do we let the varsity guys know without showing them up? (BTW, the one on the C game agreed with us.)

We thought "Neener, neener" wouldn't go over well.

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