Score Keeper Training Kansas City Youth Lacrosse Assn. Prepared by Jack Yates

Who Are the Score Keepers? Home/Visitor Team Responsibilities: Table Officials. The teams designated on the schedule as the home teams have the responsibility to provide a scorekeeper, and the teams designated as the visiting team have the responsibility to provide a timekeeper. It is good practice to have all table officials to be cross trained so they can work together with knowledge of what the other person’s responsibilities are. Table officials are required to be neutral in their behavior and duties during the game.

The Score Sheet Form Three Part Form o Original for league, copy for each team Information limited to what league needs to capture: o Names of bench officials o Names of teams, including names of program, division, head coach and numbers of players, who scored goals, personal fouls, running score, and time outs taken. o Score verification by bench and field officials. o Accurate copies require firm pressure with ball point pens provided. o Keep forms dry if at all possible. Umbrella, plastic laundry bag or whatever you can do. o No objection to collecting other information (ground balls, nature of foul, saves, shots attempted, face off wins, etc.), but that must be done by someone else on another form. Capturing full stats requires at least one spotter, and is better captured by others in the stands.

Job 1: Rosters Report to Table 15 minutes before game starts. Collect Rosters from head coaches or field manager. o From the Bylaws: “Coaches are required to have an exchange roster with name and jersey number. If the coach does not provide the roster and the start of the game is delayed as a result, that team will be assessed a one minute non-releasable conduct penalty to be served by the team’s In Home designee. If the game is delayed 5 minutes or more after the time scheduled for the game to start because of a team’s failure to have the roster to the scorer in a timely fashion, the team responsible for the delay will be assessed an unsportsmanlike non-releasable 3 minute conduct penalty to be served by the starting attackman so designated by the coach as the InJome. Obtain from coaches the names/numbers of InHome (must be a starting attackman), and Goalie. ” Enter InHome’s name and number on top line and Goalie’s name and number on bottom line. Enter information on top lines: Date, Field Name, Scorer’s Name, Time Keeper’s Name, Home Team and Visiting Team. o Please identify the team by organization (Brookside=BS, Blue Valley=BV, Lawrence=LAW, Leawood=LW, Lees Summit=LS, Mill Valley=MV, Northland=NL, Olathe=OL, Overland Park South=OPS, Pembroke Hill=PH, Pembroke Hill/St. Paul’s=PHSP, Prairie Village=PV, St. Paul’s=STP, coach’s last name, uniform color and division (U-11, U-13A, U-13B, U-15A, U-15B). Example: Coach PV U-13B Red.

Suggestions on Roster Entries Enter remaining player information. o Except for InHome, it is helpful to list players by ascending jersey number as it makes it easier to locate the proper line when scoring. o The InHome is the first listed person on the team’s roster and must be a starting attack. The InHome is who serves penalties against a coach, fans, or where the culprit cannot be identified. Should InHome not be available to serve a penalty for any reason, the second person on the roster is the new InHome, and so on if they keep disappearing. o If short on time, do just numbers, and come back during stoppage of play to enter last name and at least first letter of first name.

Job 2: Keeping Score Goal Scored: Put tally mark (|) next to name in Goals column, and a slash mark (\) on the running score line below player names. o Be sure number of tally marks is the same as the running score line. o If Own Goal, e.g. goalie drops ball into goal, or accidently kicked into goal by defensive player, add a player named “Own Goal” and put tally mark next to that and record on running score line. o If unsure who scored the goal, ask the coach of the offensive team as they always know. o Do not score goal until the officials are ready to start play or if there is a flag down on the play, as goals can be waved off if shooter in the crease, ball did not go in and the official made a mistake when calling it a goal, or ball had not crossed goal line before time expired in the period and many other reasons (15 listed in Rule 4.9.2).

Job 3 Recording Penalties Fouls Assessed. Applies only to Personal Fouls, most easily defined as those called where the assessed penalty if 1minute or more. o If any question that the foul was a personal foul, ask the official before play resumes. o These are tracked by slash mark through the number in the PFouls column. o The timekeeper should also record personal fouls on the Personal Foul Reporting Sheet. o Should a player fouls three times during the course of the game, the bench officials should advise the coach of that player has three fouls and will foul out if and when he receives another personal foul.

Fouling Out and Ejections Two ways a player fouls out during a game o Is assessed four personal fouls during the course of the game. o Accumulates 5 minutes of penalty time as assessed by the officials during the course of the game (excluding 1.5 Multiplier). Once either of these ways occur, the Score Keeper should immediately so advise the near side official. o Line through the player’s name on the score sheet with “FO” as shown on the exemplar Ejection: If a player is ejected from the game by an official, line through the player’s name with and “E” or “EJ” as shown on the exemplar with a brief comment about the circumstances in the margins of the form.

Job 3: Verifying Entries Your score sheet is the official record of the game. o At the end of every quarter, confer with the timekeeper who is from the other team, that your sheet accurately reflects the score to that point in the game. o The officials will often check with you between periods and at the end of the game to make sure their tallies and yours match. Yours is the official score. Obtain signatures of the two field officials, the time keeper and you. This is the final verification that the score sheet is deemed accurate by all 4 officials.

Job 4: Distributing Copies Each score sheet is in three parts: Original, and two copies. o Original is given to one of the field officials, who will give the original to the Board Secretary as the official record of the game. o Deliver one of the copies to each of the coaches. If they leave before then, give the copies to the field official.

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