Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
It comes down to this: Hero's wanted to play past 3:55pm in order to get the first half in and declare a win. However, Hero's did not want to play full game. LBC coach said if you are going to break the rules and play past 3:55pm then play the full game. LBC Coach was not going to play past 3:55pm to just hand Hero's the win. now they're mad. If you read below, why would the coach agree to play past 3:55pm just to get the first half in. Hero's, the great power of club lacrosse, trying to steal a cheap win and unfortunately for them the LBC coach new the rules and their 5 coaches on the sideline didn't seem to... Hero's is the better team most of the time, why try and steal one.

Here are the rules from NGLL website:

All games will be postponed during lightning and/or thunder. Games will resume 30 minutes
after the last sight of lightning and/or crack of thunder is heard, but they will end 55 minutes
after the original scheduled start time.
• A game score will stand at the point it was delayed if at least one complete half has been
played.

I am still confused. Were there enough to girls to play the game and finish the half? It sounds like there were before the 3:55 timeframe. According to the first post, LBC had 15 girls ready to play at 3:45, with 12 on the field ready for the draw when the refs said the game could resume. If that is the case, there were 10 minutes to get in the last 6 minutes of the half. So, how is that Heros cheating? Sounds like LBC wanted to avoid the loss.

Coaches should not be able to not play because the players they want on the field are not there. If there were enough girls to finish the half, and enough time to finish the half, which it sounds like there clearly was, this should be a forfeit by LBC.


So to summarize, four teams were playing. Hero Green, Pride Red and Heros White were able to get their players to the field on time, but LBC wasn't?

The fact that the Pride/Heros game finished on time pretty much defeats any LBC argument. Beyond that, failure to follow referee instruction can be grounds for immediate forfeit.