i was there ... it was a cheap shot body check that whiplashed her to the ground ... the game was stopped for over 20 minutes ... ambulance onto field and she was put on a body board. Heard later on that it sounds like she might be ok ... hopefully it was being very careful, but it was a scary situation. Duke was incredibly rough with wild cross checks etc, and the refs let it get out of hand.
I was watching Ohio State vs Penn State yesterday and couldn't stop wondering why the refs do not enforce the horizontal stick to body rule in college?
The injury to Rix was more of a hip check/leg whip kind of thing ... the Duke girl got beat and she threw her body into her ... should have clearly been a red card but only got yellow ... there was a cross check a few minutes before that where a BC girl was getting around Duke defender and the cross check came up under BC girls arm to her ribs and literally lifted her of the ground and sent her crashing to the turf ... you could hear the crack of the contact in the stands ... The game is hard to call, but the lack of qualified refs even at this high level, is astounding ... something has to be done between simplifying the rules, and finding better referees. Something really bad is going to happen soon, hopefully it didn't just happen yesterday to one of the best players in the world.
