UGANDA MEN'S LACROSSE RULES:
Simplified version 2017/2018.
Men's lacrosse is a contact game
played by ten players: a goalie, three defensemen, three midfielders and three
attackmen.
The object of the game is to shoot
the ball into the goal.
The team scoring the most goals
wins.
Each team must keep at least four
players, including the goalie, in its defensive half of the field and three in
its offensive half.
Three players (midfielders) may roam
the entire field.
College/University games consist of
four, 15-minute quarters.
High school games are 12-minute
quarters, junior games are 10-minute quarters, and youth games are 8-minute
quarters.
Each team is given a two-minute
break between the first and second quarters, and the third and fourth quarters.
Halftime is ten minutes long.
If the score is tied at the end of
regulation, sudden victory periods are played lasting 4-minutes in duration
until a goal is scored.
The team winning the coin toss can
choose the end of the field it wants to defend first or the first alternate
possession.
Teams change sides between periods.
Each team is permitted two timeouts
each half.
Men's lacrosse begins with a face-off.
The players take their positions on
the field: four in the defensive clearing area, one at the center, two in the
wing areas and three in their attack goal area.
The ball is placed between the
sticks of two squatting players at the center of the field.
The official blows the whistle to
begin play.
Each face-off player tries to
control the ball. The players in the wing areas can run after the ball when the
whistle sounds.
The other players must wait until
one player has gained possession of the ball before they can release.
Face-offs are also conducted at the
start of each quarter and after a goal is scored.
Players must use their crosses to
pass, catch and run with the ball.
Only the goalkeeper may touch the
ball with his hands.
A player may gain possession of the
ball by dislodging it from an opponent's crosse with a stick check.
A legal stick check is the
controlled poking or slapping of the stick and gloved hands of the player in
possession of the ball.
Body checking is permitted if the
opponent has the ball or is within five yards of a loose ball.
All body contact must occur from the
front or side, above the waist and below the shoulders.
An opponent's crosse may also be
checked if he is within five yards of a loose ball.
If the ball or a player in
possession of the ball goes out of bounds, the other team is awarded possession.
If the ball goes out of bounds after
an unsuccessful shot, the in-bound player nearest to the ball when it goes out
of bounds is awarded possession.
The Defensive Team has20-seconds to
clear the ball past the midfield line once possession has been gained.
An Offensive Team has 10-seconds to
move the ball into the
Attack Goal area once they have
possession in the offensive half of the field.
A new 10-second count begins each
time the offensive team brings the ball outside the Attack Goal area.
In the final 2minutes of play, the
team that is ahead in score must keep the ball within the Attack Goal area and
loses possession if the ball comes out (other than as a result of a shot or
pass deflected by the defense).
An attacking player cannot enter the
crease around the goal, but may reach in with his stick to scoop a loose ball
provided he does not contact the goalie or the goalie’s crosse.
A referee and an umpire supervise
field play.
A timekeeper and scorer are provided
by the home team.
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MEN'S LACROSSE PERSONAL &
TECHNICAL FOULS:
There are personal fouls and
technical fouls in men’s lacrosse.
The penalty for a personal foul
results in a one to three minute suspension from play and possession to the
team that was fouled.
Players accumulating five personal fouls
would be ejected from the game.
The penalty for a technical foul is
a thirty-second suspension if the fouled team is in possession of the ball when
the foul is committed.
If the ball is loose, or in
possession of the offending team, when the technical foul is committed, the
fouled team is awarded possession of the ball.
Penalties are released when the full
penalty time has been served or when a goal is scored by the team with the man
advantage (except in some circumstances when penalty time is classified as “non-releasable”).
Personal
Fouls Slashing:
Occurs when a player's stick
viciously contacts an opponent in any area other
than the stick or gloved hand on the
stick or a player swings his stick in an uncontrolled manner.
Tripping:
Occurs when a player obstructs his
opponent at, or below the waist with the
crosse, hands, arms, feet or legs.
When a player trips accidentally
while participating in play, no foul has been committed.
Cross
Checking:
Occurs when a player uses the handle
of his crosse between his hands to make striking or thrusting contact with an
opponent.
Unsportsmanlike
Conduct:
Occurs when a player or coach
commits an act that is considered unsportsmanlike by an official, including
taunting, arguing,, obscene language or gestures.
Most of these violations result in
non-releasable penalty time.
Unnecessary
Roughness:
Occurs when a player strikes an
opponent with his stick or body using excessive or unnecessary force.
Illegal
Body Checking:
Occurs when any of the following
actions takes place:
a. body checking an opponent who is not in possession of the ball nor
within five yards of
a loose ball;
b. avoidable body check of an
opponent after he has passed or shot
the ball;
c. body checking an opponent from the rear or at or below the waist;
d. body checking an opponent above the shoulders.
e. body checking of an opponent who is on the ground.
A body check must be below the
shoulders, above the waist, and both hands of the player applying the body
check must remain in contact with his crosse.
A body check must not be initiated with
the head –this is referred to as Spearing and also results in non-releasable
penalty time.
Illegal
Crosse:
Occurs when a player uses a crosse
that does not conform to required specifications.
A crosse is found illegal if the
stick length is too short or too long, the
pocket is too deep, or if any other
part of the crosse was altered to gain an advantage.
Illegal
Equipment:
A player may not use gloves that do
not conform to required specifications.
A glove is found illegal if the
fingers and/or palms are cut out of the gloves, or if the glove has been
altered in a way that compromises its protective features.
Additional equipment required
includes an approved helmet, colored mouthpiece, shoulder pads, and arm pads.
Additionally the goalkeeper is required
to wear throat and chest protectors
but shoulder pads are optional.
Technical
Fouls
Holding:
Occurs when a player impedes the
movement of an opponent or an opponent's crosse.
Interference:
Occurs when a player interferes in
any manner with the free movement of an opponent, except when that opponent has
possession of the ball, or both players are within five yards of a loose ball.
An offensive player may also not
interfere in any manner with the Goalie while the goalie is within the goal
crease.
Offsides:
Occurs when a team does not have at
least four players on its defensive side of the midfield line and at least
three players on its offensive side of the midfield line.
Pushing:
Occurs when a player thrusts or
shoves a player from behind.
Illegal
Offensive
Screening:
Occurs when an offensive player
moves into & makes contact with a defensive player with the purpose of
blocking him from the man he is defending.
Similar to a “moving pick” in
basketball.
Stalling:
Occurs when a team intentionallyholds
the ball, without conducting normal
offensive play, with the intent of
running time off the clock.
Warding
Off:
Occurs when a player in possession
of the ball uses his free hand or arm to hold, push or control the direction of
an opponent's stick check.
The rules are designed to keep
Lacrosse Safe, Fair, and Fun.
by;
Twesiime Liberty
Public Relations Officer
Uganda Lacrosse Association.
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