Playing with 4

[iubirdman]

As a coach had a situation come up in our game yesterday, and need clarification on a rule.

Team A has 6 players dressed, one of the takes a charge and gets dinged up and has to leave the game. Team A does not want to play the one sub for the last 20 seconds of the quarter as they want to save her that quarter to play the varsity game.

Have had many officials tell us in the past that if they are dressed, on the bench, healthy and eligible to play they have to play. Last night they told us you could play with 4 and leave an eligible player on the bench, just wondering which is correct.

I loked in the case book last night, and it appears that if you have kids eligible to play, you cannot play with less than 5, but looking for clarification for future reference