GIRLS
New England Youth Lacrosse All-star Jamboree and Tournament Rules

The Girls will follow US Lacrosse-sanctioned Girls’ Youth Lacrosse Contests are found in the 2005 edition of the US Lacrosse 2005 Women’s Rules- Official Rules for Girls and Women’s Lacrosse Rulebook, beginning on page 89, in the section titled “Official Rules for Girls Youth Lacrosse”.

  1. Team Certifications: All Coaches will be required to check-in to the Registration Tent at least 45 minutes prior to the start of their first game to certify their teams, pick up a final game schedule, pick-up T-shirts and any last minute changes.
  2. Length of Game: All games will consist of two, 19 minute running-time halves, with a 2-minute halftime. There will be a central horn at the Start End of Half, Start of Second Half and the Stop all games. Five-minutes prior to the end of each game, warnings will be provided by two short blasts of the horn. If neither team is ready to begin play, the game clock will rundown from the common start time reducing the length of game for those teams. No overtime periods will be played.
  3. Substitutions: Substitutions will be done on the fly except for penalties. Substitution should be on the whistle and on the fly with delay of game strictly enforced for any substitution on the whistle that takes longer than ten seconds.
  4. Slaughter Rule: A five-goal rule will be used for all games. As long as a team has a five-goal lead, the opposing team will have the option to receive the ball at the centerline following the goal or facing off. All coaches are requested to take appropriate steps to manage the total goals scored by their teams in a slaughter situation.
  5. Offensive Stalling: The team that is leading the game must keep the ball in its attack area during the last two-minutes of the game.
  6. Time Serving Penalties - Personal and Technical Fouls: All time serving Personal and Technical Fouls will result in a fast break for the offended team. A player who has committed a violation of the rules must leave the field and may be substituted (delay of game will be strictly enforced for any substitution that takes longer than twenty seconds). Prior to the whistle all middies for both teams will be behind the midfield line (except one middy for the offended team who will line up 5 yards from the midfield line on their offensive side of the field) and all defensemen for the offending team shall line-up in their defensive area. Offending Personal Foul players shall be withheld from the game for a period of 2 minutes, offending Technical Foul players shall be withheld from the game for 1 minute, coaches shall be responsible for keeping track of the time.
  7. Team time-outs: Each team may take one 30-second time out per half. No time-outs will be permitted in the last five minutes of the game. The game clock will continue to run during these Team time-outs and any Official time-outs.
  8. Unsportsmanlike conduct: In addition to the Federation or the US Lacrosse rules, any player, coach or anyone associated with the team who: uses derogatory language (starting with damn) whether addressing a player, coach or official; engages in fighting or trash talking; argues with an official unnecessarily will be ejected from the game and/or from the tournament and three fast-breaks assessed against them. Anyone ejected from a game will not be allowed to participate in the next scheduled game. Anyone ejected from the jamboree/ tournament will not be allowed to participate in any remaining games in the jamboree / tournament.
  9. # of Coaches on a Sideline: Each team will limit the # of coaches in the bench area to two, a Head Coach and an Assistant Coach. All others besides these two coaches should refrain from communicating with the officials during a game.
  10. Game scores: Officials will keep track of all game scores that will be reported to the Registration Tent. A win will be given two points, a tie will be given 1 point and a loss will be given zero points which will be posted near the Registration Tent. The team with the highest amount of points at the end of the four games in their bracket will be the champion or will continue on to play the winners in other brackets to determine the champion. See below for ties rules/clarification. PLEASE NOTE: It is the coach’s responsibility to check with the Tournament Director at the completion of their 5th game to determine who or if they will play to determine 1st and 2nd Place in their Division. The Referees or Umpires will be turning in scorecards at the conclusion of each game; each coach is suggested to initial these cards as evidence of agreement of the final score of each game.
  11. Awards for Champion and Runner-up for each Division: There will be awards for both Tournament Champion’s and Runner-up’s for all Divisions. All Games will be held at the tournament ONLY. Any team who decides to leave prior to the Champions or Runner-up’s being decided will forfeit their rights to any award.
  12. Girls Rules (U13 & U15)
    1. U13 will play using Level B rules
    2. U15 will play using Level A rules
    3. Three seconds closely guarded rule – U13 AND U15
      Good defensive position.
      The three seconds closely guarded rule will be a point of emphasis.
      No holding the ball for more than 3 seconds when closely guarded/marked and the defense has both hands on her stick and is position to legally check were checking allowed. The Umpire count is aloud: “one thousand, two thousand, three”, whistle.
    4. Modified Checking for U15’s
      Checking is only allowed if the ENTIRE stick is below the shoulder level. The check must be
      in a downward direction and away from the body.
    5. There will be NO checking for the U13’s.
  13. Rules for Addressing Ties in Brackets: In the event of a tie in a Bracket after all teams complete their four games, the following strategy will apply to determine the champion:
    1. If 2 teams in a bracket are tied those teams will play a 4 Minute - Sudden Death - to determine the champion of that bracket. If there are more than one brackets, the winner will be invited to play another champion of another bracket until the Division Champion is determined.
    2. If 3 teams in a Bracket are tied the following play-off methodology will apply:
      1. Representatives from each team shall pick an “A”, “B” or “C” from a hat,
      2. “A” shall play “B” for a 4 Minute – Sudden Death until a winner is identified,
      3. The Winner of the “A” vs “B” shall play “C” for a 4 Minute – Sudden Death to determine the winner of the Bracket. The winner will be invited to play another champion of another bracket until the Division Champion is determined.
  14. Rules for addressing 3 Bracket 1st Place Teams competing for 1st and 2nd Place for a Division:
    1. Representatives from each team shall pick an “A”, “B” or “C” from a hat
    2. “A” will play “B” for a 40 Minute Game
    3. “B” will then play “C” for a 40 Minute Game,
    4. “C” will then play “A” for a 40 Minute Game,
    5. The winner of 2 games shall be the 1st Place Winner of the Division and the winner of 1 game will be the 2nd place Winner of the Division.
  15. Water: Each team is responsible for bringing a water container to the tournament. A water source will be available at the tournament site.
  16. Clean up of bench areas after games: Each coach is requested to ensure that the bench area is picked-up after each game. Trashcans are available near bench areas and trash bags, if needed, are available in the Registration Tent. If you see a full trashcan, please notify a tournament worker who will all be dressed in a Warrior T-Shirt and Hat.
  17. Resolution of problems or disputes: The Tournament Director (in consultation with the Girls and/or Boys Official, if required) will make all final rulings/decisions on any and all problems or disputes.