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[ChuckElias]

Originally posted by Tim Roden
Another would be the tendency to not be able to wrestle free a held ball. In a boys game we can let them fight for a ball and one will win. In the girls game we will more often then not call a held ball.

In my first season of calling girls HS ball, after calling 7 years of boys ball, I had a situation that I will never forget which is a perfect example of Tim's point.

The ball had been knocked away from the dribbler and rolled a few feet. A1 goes to one knee to retrieve the ball. As A1 lifts the ball off the floor to attempt a pass to a teammate, B1 reaches down and puts both hands on the ball.

The moment B1 touched the ball, the two girls literally stopped playing and just looked up at me to blow the whistle. I even waited a couple seconds and they just sat there. I couldn't believe it. They just stopped. Finally, I had to blow the whistle.

This was a varsity game, too.

Chuck