Quarter Length

[pfan1981]

Long time listener, first time caller. First year officiating, worked every game as the official scorer at our local for 5 years and partnered with a guy that has been doing it a decade.

At a freshman girls game, the guy at the scoring table has 7 minutes on the clock to start the game. I have worked 5 games previously at the same school with the same scoring table. The coaches ask for 8 minutes per quarter, I told them that every previous game has been 7 minute quarters. They informed me that it is not up to you and that it's up to the coaches. I defer to my non-normal partner who really didn't give a darn, so he says sure.

I wanted to say, "I hope you are not keeping a win-loss record since your games don't have a consistent length. And if we have overtime, how long would you like that to be."

Has anyone ran across this? In 5 years of doing every middle school, JV, and Varsity games at the table I never heard of this coming up.

Who is it up to? Thanks,

Ben