i cant find the correct penalty to call when a wing middie comes in and hits the face off middie.....when is the face off middie allowed to be checked? is this situation mentioned in the ncaa rule book?? thanks

[Edited by jdicqitdi on Jun 6th, 2001 at 10:13 PM]

There is no explicit language in either the NCAA or Federation rulebooks in the sections on Facing Off that covers this. What you have, though, is a sure-fire recipe for an illegal bodycheck "above the shoulders" or "from the rear" when the player is bent over scrumming for the ball on a faceoff and the wing middie comes flying in and body checks him. The faceoff man's head and neck are about waist high or lower at this point and it would be almost inconceivable that he could be checked from the front and not have contact with his head and neck.