NFHS 11 man football

[benbret]

Team B22 intercepts A's pass in the end zone. B22 attemps to run the ball out of the end zone. While the ball is still in the end zone B65 holds A18 in the end zone. A53 tackles B22 by the face mask at the 5 yard line. What is the correct enforcement?

[jTheUmp]

2 options:
Option 1: Fouls offset, repeat the down.

Option 2: B can decline the penalty for A's facemask foul and take the result of the play after enforcement of B's holding penalty. Since B's foul occurred in the end zone... safety, 2 points for team A.

"But jTheUmp" the Team B coach whines "we got the ball with clean hands, why can't we keep the ball?"

"Shouldn't have held in the end zone, coach"

I suppose it's also theoretically possible that B would decline A's foul AND A would decline B's foul, resulting in 1-10 for Team B at the B-5, but I'm unable envision a 'real-world' situation where Team A would elect that option.