There seem to be a couple strange calls in the Blue Ridge/CC Game. The Blue Ridge goal came from a bizarre series of play. It started with a pk. CC girls lined up maybe 7 yards from the kicker. They blocked the kick. The ref gives a yellow card to the CC girl saying she didn't give 10 yards, although the kicker never asked and the ref never said anything, no warning or instruction. The other ref across the field said it wasn't b/c of not giving 10 yards but she jumped up and forward when the ball was kicked, although he wasn't the one who gave the card. The CC coach then got a yellow card for challenging the call. Then I think instead of Blue ridge rekicking I think it was a throw in. Shouldn't it have been a rekick? The ball gets bobbled around and gets kicked in. One of the CC player says "thats incredible she (blue ridge player) was so offside". The ref then gives the CC player a yellow card. There was also a foul? or hindrance of play? or injury? called in the box against blue ridge in which the ref called it an indirect so the whole blue ridge team just lined up across their goal. What foul is indirect in the box? Wouldn't they have to take it outside the box? A blue ridge player was lying down stretched out hurt in front of the goal, although I don't remember if she went off the field after the play. There was no whistle that indicated that the girl was fouled so what is suppose to happen. She is blocking the goal and neither team seems to know what to do since they really couldn't kick the ball since it was right next to her body otherwise they would kick her. After about what seemed like a minute the ref blows his whistle to stop the play. Is that why it was an indirect inside the box?
There were strange/missed calls on both sides. Both teams seemed to do a lot of standing around - maybe they were confused about the calls. I can't say it was a very well played game by either side except Blue Ridge's keeper. She did make some good saves. Everybody else seemed a little tired, including the refs. I think having only two refs instead of three makes it very difficult. That with am over zealous fan base yelling about every call or missed call.
