Fight in girls game - sort of

[JugglingReferee]

I've seen an official issue calls and when asked about what was done/said to warrant the penalty, the official could not give answer. Yikes!

Just bad news, no matter how one tries to justify it.

[VaTerp]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

I've seen an official issue calls and when asked about what was done/said to warrant the penalty, the official could not give answer. Yikes!

Just bad news, no matter how one tries to justify it.

Well if you can't give an answer then no you have no business calling it.

Good thing I'm capable of giving more than adequate answers that justify my decisions to all who matter.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by VaTerp

Well if you can't give an answer then no you have no business calling it.

And that's exactly my point. If someone asked me what the defender said to qualify as a taunt, I wouldn't be able to give an answer. Therefore, according to your own statement above, I would have no business calling it.

BTW - the defender made no gestures or anything like it. The only thing that moved when she spoke was her mouth.

[APG]

Mark, you never answered the question I asked earlier. By rule, you should of ejected the bench personnel that came off the bench, save the coaches whom I'm assuming were in peace keeping roles, due to a potential fight. Why did you decide to set aside that rule (maybe it's a local rule for your league)?

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

Mark, you never answered the question I asked earlier. By rule, you should of ejected the bench personnel that came off the bench, save the coaches whom I'm assuming were in peace keeping roles, due to a potential fight. Why did you decide to set aside that rule (maybe it's a local rule for your league)?

The game would then have been over and both coaches discussed it then asked us if they could just continue the game without anyone from the benches being ejected because they just kind of walked out to see what was going on, not to get involved. Even though HS rules don't care why they came out, we agreed to continue the game because we wanted to let the kids play.

[VaTerp]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

And that's exactly my point. If someone asked me what the defender said to qualify as a taunt, I wouldn't be able to give an answer. Therefore, according to your own statement above, I would have no business calling it.

BTW - the defender made no gestures or anything like it. The only thing that moved when she spoke was her mouth.

My point is that I could still give a satisfactory answer about my decision, given the context of the entire situation, without knowing exactly what was said.

But I'm not going to continue to debate that point anymore. As I said, I know how I would have, have, and likely will handle similar situations.

I'm more interested in exactly how you administered everything that you did call?

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by VaTerp

My point is that I could still give a satisfactory answer about my decision, given the context of the entire situation, without knowing exactly what was said.

A1 committed a foul, which was ruled intentional, not flagrant, then said something, you have no idea what, then B1 slapped A1 across the face. So you ejected both.

How do you justify this, sir?

And your "satisfactory" answer would be?