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Originally Posted by Cory
Ashlee, do you know where specifically in the rules it says there's a 5 point penalty for unintentional incursions into the side goal?
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I can't find it anywhere. I took it to mean that any time a team went into the goal more than 3", it was automatically assumed to be intentional, and a DQ.
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Unfortunately, that was what was defined to the referees at the event itself. However, looking back at the rules and the manual I could not find an actual POINT amount for deduction into the goal. Its something I couldnt find at the time either. Which I find interesting because all the regular ref's were told to call was the corner incursion, and which team incurred into the goal. We were never given the decision on what penalty was given for that incursion.
You have to understand, we had to work with the interpretation of the rules that we were given by our head ref, and unfortunately that was how he interpreted those rules. Specifically though, there is no place in the rules or in the referee manual that specifically states that its a 5 point penalty. Neither is there in the game rules that I can see.
I can state at Portland regional, the penalties on both cases were meant to try to deter teams from going into goals that were having difficulty with heavy impact. During one of the matches we did have a goal break, and have to do a playover.