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East Coast Conference Match Reports

At last night’s chapter business meeting, there was a discussion about reporting cautions for ECAC games. I discussed this with Steve Rossetti at ECAC this morning to get clarification. Steve said that the East Coast Conference asked ECAC to provide summary reports indicating all misconduct (yellow and red cards) for men’s and women’s games.

Referees who caution players in East Coast Conference games must notify Steve Rossetti via email or using this form (which includes a list of East Coast Conference institutions) of the misconduct.

Please note that this notification is ONLY for East Coast Conference schools.

For 2008, only ejections must be reported to the ECAC for the East Coast Conference.

Fighting Ejections

When a player, coach or other bench personnel is ejected for fighting, there are several additional administrative requirements for the referee. Fighting is defined in the NCAA Soccer Rules Book as, “deliberately strikes or attempts to strike another player, coach or bench personnel in a malicious manner or leaves the bench or coaching area to participate in an altercation.” The referee must:

At the time of the ejection:

• Notify the player, head coaches and scorekeeper that the ejection was for fighting. It is very important that the players, head coach and scorekeeper are notified that the ejection was specifically for fighting before you sign the official NCAA score sheet and leave the site.

Immediately after the game:

• Contact the Regional Representative by email with the information about the fighting incident.
• Notify the conference assignor of the fighting ejection by phone with an email follow up, if necessary. Use this online ejection report for ECAC assigned games.

All other ejection forms and notifications must be made as well. Applicable forms and notifications are available on our web site.

Ejection Procedures

As a reminder, if you are the ECAC assigned referee and have to terminate the game or eject a player, make sure you fill out and submit the ECAC ejection/termination online form. In addition, you have to fill out and submit the Supplemental Ejection report. If the ejection is for fighting, you must notify the Region 2 coordinator, Neil Edkins via email. You can download these forms and view these links in the Library and Documents section of our web site.