officiating question

[ibtxn]

someone help me understand

long in bounds pass two girls opposite teams going for the ball collide in the air..90% of time ref will call a foul..

how is it determined who the foul is called on... seems most of the time its on the defending player

?

 

[Hampton Roads 6]

I would say the refs think the defender is denying offensive player the ball. sort of like pass interference in football.

 

[gtownfencecrew]

There was a call similar to this in the boys game between Page and Riverheads last night but it wasn't on an inbounds, it was on a long pass down the court up in the air. The two boys collided and the foul was called on the Page player (Page was throwing the long pass). When Coach P asked the ref how it was a foul and how it was called on our player, the ref said the Page player came in from an angle and the Riverheads player was more stationary. Maybe they just see one player's angle and call it that way I'm assuming.

 

[bowlingref]

In the rule book it has this kind of play described. At times two players may collide violently and there is no foul. Not being there it is hard to judge what happened. A similar play happened at the Seigel Center in a championship game. No foul was called and the team with the biggest player got the ball and won the game. It just a violent play.