Sixth grade girl tossed from rec game!

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Reffing Rev.

Some members at Bible Study this evening told me (rather they asked me about) their 3 & 4 grade tourney this morning. Apparently their star player was ejected in the semifinals for a flagrant technical foul (as the story was relayed to me, she was elbowed in the eye and then during the following dead ball shoved the other girl to the floor.) The coach lobbyed for a regular technical foul and received a regular direct himself. Less than 2 minutes later ejected girl on the bench apparently made a sarcastic comment about the refs' rules knowledge which earned the coach an indirect T for bench misconduct, and the girl was ordered out of the gym with adult escort, so the assistant coach left. At halftime while the girls were warming up a ball got away and one of the girls was running after it when the ref grabbed it and threw it away from her. She said, "Thanks, jerk." and got ejected. The refs applied the indirect tech to the hc and tossed him as well. There being no further adult coaches the refs forfeited the game at halftime.

When asked about this my first-gut reaction, was to recognize that a lot of these 3 &4 grade tourneys are refed by high school players and parents with no knowledge.

Yet what I told them was, its sounds like a bunch of girls need to fix their attitudes before their next game.

Other than applying the indirect to the coach on the player T, looks like they got it right.

Somehow, I'm doubting the ref threw the ball away from her, and I have no problem DQing a 4th grader for calling the ref a jerk.

I'd be pretty upset as a parent if my 9 year old behaved this way.