I must say that I have never seen a more indecisive refreeing job in the 11 years I've played and watched soccer than I have in the Irmo-Dorman game. For those of you who could not make it to the game here's what happened. When the score was 2-2 with 7 mins left in the 2nd OT Dorman and Irmo's sweeper got tangled up and at some point in the mix up between the two players you could see that one of them had a hand-ball, Dorman got past the defender and scored. At first it was called a goal. However, the center referee and the AR went back and forth between one another and then back and forth between the coaching staffs. The end result was that the ref. completely changed his call and Dorman was given a free kick at the edge of the 18; giving the impression that Irmo had a handball. On the freekick Dorman hit the underside of the crossbar, the ball bounced and was headed over the goal by a Dorman player. It was difficult to tell but the referee called it a goal. Finally, with less than 5 secs left Irmo's right defender banged a ball towards the goal, Dorman's keeper tipped it with her hand, but it went over her and Meg Korpita helped make sure it went in as the buzzer went off to tie the game 3-3. However, the ref. called it a no goal. With no offense to Dorman, who played very well, but there is no way between the time that was wasted and run off the clock that there was not an extra second to call it a goal, Especially in a game as important as a State Championship game. I was not on the field so you could not be sure of all the commentary that occured, but from watching the game, Irmo was truly ripped off and it's a shame.
