Marmaduke games

I think I may need to clarify a few things from the games at Marmaduke this past Saturday. It was ‘not’ an official game. This was considered a practice game. Marmaduke doesn’t start their season until December, that’s why our next games with them will not include a 6th ‘B’ game. They select their traveling teams in the next week or two and kick-off the season in early December. Also, that explains why they didn’t have ‘official’ referees, a clock that actually stops when the ball is out of bounds and an official bookkeeper keeping count of player fouls, timeouts, etc. With that being said, it was a good 1st test for our girls. The coach from Marmaduke told me they start their girls in Kindergarten. These girls play ball year round. Their season won’t end in February…they will be involved in summer leagues. Our next game is Tuesday but our conference play will start this coming Saturday against Lake City. We have specific rules to play by in the conference games. These are listed below:

4th grade:
Referees must have an official referee card.
5 seconds in the lane instead of 3.
12 foot free throw line
Game is 4 5:00 minute quarters.
Overtime is 2:00
4 full timeouts per game
No pressing until the fourth quarter.
If a team is up by 20 they can’t play defense outside the 3 pt. line.
If you are up by 20 in the 2nd half the clock runs continuous.

5th grade:
Same rules as above except:
Game is 4 6:00 quarters
Overtime is 3:00
No pressing until 2nd half

6th grade:
Same as 5th except:
Pressing is allowed anytime.

Our conference games include the following teams:
Caraway, Bay, Trumann, Lake City, Monette & Harrisburg.

Conference record will decide our ranking for the tournament at the end of the season. Everyone else on the schedule is a non-conference game. The rules for non-conference games will be decided between myself & the opposing coach. Hopefully, this will give you a good understanding of the layout for each game. So, let’s show up Tuesday night at our place and kick-off the season with a good effort. 5th grade won’t be playing since CHE doesn’t have a 5th grade team, so, we will have 5th grade practice this Tuesday night in the old gym at 7:30. I’ll send a note to school Monday.