Over and Back on Out of Bounds

[chayce]

Situation in a boys HSV game this week:

A1 is OOB in A's backcourt. A1 passes to A2. A2 catches ball with one foot on the floor in frontcourt. His momentum carries forward toward backcourt and his second foot comes down in backcourt. I had a no call based on 9.9.2.1 but the coach disputed the no call. I explained that 9.9.2.1 allows for this one exception on an inbounds pass. However, after thinking about it and re-reading a couple of additional rules, I am not sure of the call (or no call, as the case may be).

Key points:

9.9.2.1 states that it is not a violation after a throw-in, when a player (who jumps from frontcourt)is the first to secure control of the ball while both feet are off the floor and he/she returns to the floor with one or both feet in the backcourt.

The key in this definition is that both feet are off the floor when ball control is secured. In this situation, the player had one foot off of the floor and one on the floor in frontcourt. The second foot came down in the backcourt. It now looks like to me that I used this rule inappropriately since both feet were not off of the floor when ball control was secured.

4.4.2 states that a ball which is in contact with a player is in the frontcourt if neither the ball nor the player is touching the backcourt.

So, since the player had one foot in frontcourt when the ball was secured (the nonpivot, back foot was still in the air when the ball was caught), A1 had frontcourt position. Thus, when his second foot came down, it was an over and back violation. Sounds like I missed it...anyone else had to make this call lately? My guess is you had to explain to one coach or the other. I would love to hear your explanation so I can use it!