Tripping and withholding the ball from play

[barney19]

Question 1: Does tripping have to be deliberate? What if two players get tangled up and both go down?

Question 2: This seems to be particular to middle schoolers: loose balls, 6 middies scrumming for the ball. Someone steps on the balls inadvertantly. Is this called? Does witholding the ball from play have to be deliberate? Also, what constitutes exactly withholding the ball from play?

Question 3: This goes back to the previous post because Federation rule 6.13 says a player shall not, "trap it with his crosse longer than is necessary for him to control the ball and pick it up with one continuous motion." A goalie clamping the ball and dragging it back to the safety of the crease isn't one continuous motion is it?

Thoughts?

[eevans]

#1: Tripping does not need to be deliberate for it to be called any more than a slash has to be deliberate to be called. We adjudicate the foul/advantage gained, not the intent. Two players getting tangled up doesn't sound like a trip ("positive primary action") to me.

#2. Stepping on the ball in the midst of a loose-ball scrum is not withholding.

#3. Goalie raking it back into his crease is doing a continuous motion. If he's inside the crease and puts his stick over the ball and keeps it there and makes no attempt to scoop the ball...that's withholding. Usually what will happen if he does that same manuever outside the crease is that the savvy attackman will try to slide his own stick underneath it to free the ball.
eric evans

[barney19]