Central Pennsylvania Lacrosse Officials Association (CPLOA)

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Central Pennsylvania Lacrosse Officials
Association(CPLOA)

• Officials Training
• Rule 5 Personal Fouls
• Rule 6 Technical Fouls
• Rule 7- Penalty Enforcement

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Rule 5 - Personal Fouls

• Violations of a serious nature
• Cross check
• Illegal body check
• Illegal crosse
• Use of illegal equipment
• Slashing
• Tripping
• Unnecessary roughness
• Unsportsmanlike conduct
• Penalty time
• 1 3 minutes
• Depends on officials judgment of
• Severity
• Perceived intent

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Cross check

• Applying a check with the crosse
• Thrusting
• Holding away from body
• Crosse between hands
• If hands are together, not a cross check

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Illegal body check

• Bodychecking is a part of the game
• Bodychecking illegal when
• Body check when opponent
• Not possess ball, or
• Not within 5 yards of loose ball
• From rear, below waist, above shoulders
• If player turns, not illegal
• Judge initial contact
• Body check when opponent on ground
• When anything other than feet touching ground
• Avoidable body check after
• Pass or shot
• Turning
• Spearing
• Minimum 1 minute, non-releasable (3 min. if
  vicious)

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Illegal crosse

• One or three minute non releasable
• Deep pocket
• 1 min. non releasable
• Altered crosse
• Length, head dimension, etc.
• 3 min. non releasable
• Stick remains at table
• Player adjusts crosse (for stick check)
• 1 minute non releasable - automatic
• Additional 1-3 min. NR if crosse is illegal

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Illegal equipment

• Fingers and palms of gloves
• If cut, illegal (1 min. NR)
• If holes worn, instruct to tape the holes
• Not wearing shoulder pads, arm pads
• 1 minute NR
• Does not apply to goalie
• Goalie has option to not wear these pads
• Goalie must wear
• Throat protector
• Chest protector

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Slashing

• Swinging the crosse
• Deliberate viciousness and reckless abandon
• Player need not be struck
• Striking a player
• Head (helmet)
• Neck
• Back (flank)
• Chest (stomach)
• Arms (when not playing the crosse)
• Unless used to deflect stick check
• Cannot deliberately beat on the arm
• 3rd hit flag down, slash
• Legs (always)
• Pass, shot, scoop
• Not a slash

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Tripping

• Obstruct a player below the waist with (causing
  to fall down)
• Legs, crosse, hands, etc.
• Must be positive primary action
• When standing
• Any secondary action
• When not standing
• Not tripping if
• Trip over own crosse being checked
• During a scoop

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Unnecessary roughness

• Excessively violent push or hold
• Violent contact of a screener
• Excessively violent contact which is avoidable
• May have been otherwise legal
• Check delivered with punching blow
• UNR is not fighting
• Fighting is not related to the game of lacrosse

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Unsportsmanlike conduct

• 1 Arguing with an official
• 2 Threaten, profane, obscene
• Language
• Gestures
• 3 Bait, call undue attention to self
• Repeatedly commit same Technical foul
• Deliberately fail to return to field
• Deliberately fail to substitute properly
• Note fouls in red (1, 2, 3) are 1-3 min and
  are
• Non-Releaseable

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Fouling out

• 5 personal fouls
• Disqualified
• Time served by self
• Substitute may enter after time served
• Man-down time is complete

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Ejection

• Deliberately striking or attempting to strike
• Leaving bench during an altercation
• Use of tobacco (any kind)
• Second non-releasable foul
• Flagrant conduct
• In officials judgment
• Penalty
• 3 min. NR
• Ejection for remainder of game
• Ejected coach leaves premises
• Ejected player leaves premises if supervised

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Rule 6 - Technical fouls

• Violations of a less serious nature
• Crease violation
• Goalie interference
• Holding
• Illegal screening
• Illegal procedure
• Conduct foul
• Interference
• Offside
• Pushing
• Stalling
• Warding off
• Withholding
• Penalty time
• 30 seconds (releasable), or
• turnover

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Crease violation

• Attacking team violates the crease
• Player steps on crease line or in crease
• Defense enters own crease with ball
• Defense may receive a pass in the crease
• A player may never enter opponents crease
• A player may enter own crease
• Unless possesses the ball
• May receive pass in the crease

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Goalie interference

• Obstructing or touching the goalie while in the
  crease
• Goalies stick may not be touched inside the
  crease
• Goalies body may not be touched if he is in the
  crease
• Goalies stick may be checked outside of the
  crease
• Unless he has possession and he is in the crease
• If a toenail is in the crease, he is in the
  crease
• He is out when nothing is in the crease
• He has possession when he has the ball
• i.e., a clamp is not possession
• Goalie does not have possession
• Play on (slow whistle)
• Award laterally if his team does not gain
  possession
• Goalie has possession
• Play on (slow whistle)
• Award at center faceoff X if they fail to clear

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Holding

• Holding is
• NOT NECESSARILY AN ILLEGAL ACT
• Definition Impeding movement of player or his
  crosse
• Permitted when
• From front or side, if
• Opponent has possession
• Opponent within 5 yards of loose ball
• From rear, if
• No more than equal pressure applied
• Must be closed hand, shoulder, forearm, both
  hands on crosse
• Illegal
• Handle between hands
• Step on crosse
• From behind if more than equal pressure exerted
• Free hand (hand not on crosse)

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Illegal screening

• Block a defensive player
• Impede a player with the crosse
• Offensive player must be stationary
• There must be contact for a screen to take place
• Officiate just like basketball
• No contact, no foul

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Illegal procedure

• Technical in nature (long list)
• Touching the ball
• Illegal actions with the crosse
• Throwing the crosse
• Participating without the crosse
• Crosse in face of opponent
• Avoidable lateness
• Leaving penalty box too soon
• Delaying game
• Participating from out of bounds
• Not in restraining area at face off
• Not 5 yards away
• Substitution infractions
• Goal-crease violations
• Time out violations
• More than 10 players
• More than 1 unsuccessful inspection requests
• More than 4 long crosses
• Creating delay (rolling ball away)

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Conduct foul

• Coach enters field of play
• Coach violating coaching box
• Using electronic communicating devices
• Players violating bench area
• Objecting to an officials decision
• Arguing, gesturing
• On opponents side of the field
• Band, other artificial noise

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Interference

• Obstructing free movement of opponent who
• Does not have possession
• Not within 5 yards of loose ball

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Offside

• Failure to keep
• 3 players on attack half of field
• 4 players on defense half of field
• Usually 3 goalie
• If goalie goes across, another player must stay
• Requirements may be met by ANY player
• We dont care if it is A, M, D, or G

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Pushing

• Pushing defined
• Thrust or shove
• Not a violent blow
• Permitted from front or side
• If player
• has ball or
• within 5 yards of loose ball
• Not permitted
• From rear
• If player does not have ball
• Player not within 5 yards of loose ball
• Interference
• Illegal screen

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Stalling

• Stall warning for
• Failure to attack the goal (occasional)
• Last two minutes of game (common)
• Team that is ahead
• Must keep ball in attack box
• Stalling violation if
• Attacking team
• Passes ball out of box
• Runs ball out of box
• Not stalling violation if
• Shot ricochets out of box
• Deflection by defense

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Warding off

• Player in possession shall not
• Use free hand, arm, other part of body to
• Hold, push, control direction of movement of
• crosse
• body
• Of player applying a check
• Player in possession may
• Protect his crosse with
• Hand, arm, other part of body when
• Opponent makes a play to check his crosse

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Withholding ball from play

• Player may not
• Lie on the ball
• Trap the ball with his crosse
• Longer than is necessary to control and pick it
  up
• Withhold ball in any other manner

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Penalty Decision Tree
Foul Occurs
Technical
Personal
Flag down slow whistle
LOOSE Ball?
1 3 min
No
Yes
NO FLAG No Whistle
Releasable
B Fouls
A Fouls
Non Releasable
PLAY ON
Take Ball Away
30 Sec
Simultaneous Unsportmanslike Conduct Spearing Ille
gal Crosse Illegal Equipment Fighting
Permit Offended Team to Gain Possession
A Scores Cancel Foul
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Rule 7 Penalty Enforcement

• Procedure
• Penalty time
• Player shall
• Leave field at once
• Report to scorers table
• Remain at scorers table
• Sit or kneel in front of scorers table
• If goalie
• 1 minute allowed to warm up new goalie

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Penalty time

• Time begins when play resumes
• If goal scored
• Team scored against, released (if releasable)
• Team scored, not released
• All NR penalties serve full time
• If not released, carries over to new period
• Penalties on opposing players
• Shorter time is NR for both players
• Multiple penalties
• NR served first

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Resuming play

• Resume play at
• Spot ball became dead
• Outside the attack box
• At center face off X (if defensive half)
• For time-serving penalties only

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Team penalties

• No definite player involved
• No player in the game
• In-home must serve
• Next attack also for multiple fouls
• A substitute must serve his own time

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Simultaneous fouls

• Opposing players
• During a live ball
• Dead ball when sequence not known
• Technical fouls cancel if
• No flag down or play on
• Team in possession commits
• Technical, no time served
• Personal fouls, time served
• Award ball
• Less total penalty time
• If same total penalty time
• Team in possession retains possession
• No possession, AP

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Slow whistleFlag Down

• Foul against team in possession
• Drop flag
• Yell flag down
• Hold whistle (allow play to continue)
• Blow whistle when
• Ball hits the ground (except a shot)
• Goal scored
• Ball goes out of bounds
• Defense get possession
• Shot is no good
• Player carries ball out of goal area
• Player loses equipment in scrimmage area
• Loose ball occurs
• Attack commits foul
• Fail to clear

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After slow whistle

• Enforcement after slow whistle
• Personal foul
• Time is served (1-3 minutes)
• Technical foul
• If goal scored
• No penalty
• If no goal
• Penalty served (30 seconds)
• Ball awarded to team fouled
• Spot of ball when play suspended
• Outside box
• If there were simultaneous fouls
• No goal

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Play on

• Loose ball
• If offended team is disadvantaged by whistle
• Hold whistle (allow play to continue)
• Verbally signal play on and
• Visually give play-on signal
• Play on is over if
• Offended team gains possession
• Offended team commits
• For crease violation with goalie possession
• Play continues until offended team is
  disadvantaged

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Play-on enforcement

• Offended player gains possession
• No whistle
• Play continues
• Offended player fails to gain possession
• Blow whistle, award ball to team offended
• Goalie in possession
• Play on until goalie makes outlet

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Correction of errors

• Misapplication of rule
• Coach may approach scorers table
• Double horn at next dead ball
• If coach is right, no time out charged
• If coach is wrong, time out charged
• Coach may not debate judgment calls
• Inadvertent whistle
• Team in possession restarts
• If ball loose, AP
• Inadvertent flag
• Wave flag
• Possession same as inadvertent whistle