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OCONEE COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT YOUTH SPRING LEAGUE BASKETBALL RULES Philosophy Oconee County Parks and Recreation Department (OCPRD) offers youth sport programs that allow children to develop skills and learn the game in a fun and safe environment. Code of Conduct All participants are governed by the Oconee County Parks and Recreation Department Code of Conduct. Players, spectators and coaches should display a good sporting attitude. Spectators, parents, coaches, or participants who display unsportsmanlike behavior will be asked to leave the premises. If such behavior continues, the person(s) may be removed from the program. Any coach, assistant coach or player ejected from a contest must leave the vicinity (out of sight and sound) immediately and are prohibited from any further contact with the team (directly or indirectly) for the remainder of the game and will not be permitted on the premises for the team’s next scheduled game. Parents At least one parent or guardian of each child participating must have completed the Parents Association for Youth Sports (PAYS) program. OCPRD pays the $5 program fee for parents. The program is offered online at http://paysonline.nays.org . Please call the OCPRD office for more information if one has not completed this course in the past. Coaches All coaches must complete a Criminal History Check form and Volunteer Application each season. All coaches must also be certified through the National Youth Sports Coaches Association (NYSCA). All coaches must have completed the CDC concussion awareness certification. Age Divisions (age as of control date) 5th/6th Grade Ages 11-12 7th/8th Grade Ages 13-14 No child can be more than one year older than the listed upper age as of the age control date. Age Control Date September 1, 2015 ---PAGE BREAK--- Local Rules NFHS, National Federation of High School, and more specifically---GHSA (Georgia High School Association rules as they apply to Middle School contests--- govern play except where local rules supersede NFHS/GHSA. Players may not wear anything that can be potentially dangerous, such as jewelry, hard casts, etc. Players are only allowed to play on one OCPRD team in one age division during the season. There are no minimum playing or sitting time requirements. Players are not guaranteed any specific amount of playing time; however, coaches are urged to play all participants a reasonable amount of time. Rosters per team have been limited to 8 players with this goal in mind. Games will be played with 6-minute quarters with the clock stopping on the official’s whistle. There will be one minute between quarters and three minutes at half time. Each team will have four 60 second time-outs per game to be used at any time during regulation play. Any player or coach who displays unsporting behavior will be given a technical foul. If a player or coach receives two unsporting technical fouls in a game, the player or coach will be ejected from the game. A player given a flagrant foul will be immediately ejected from the game. Any player or coach ejected from a game for unsporting conduct will be suspended for the next scheduled game and will not be allowed in the gym during the next scheduled game, including tournament play. All coaches must remain inside the coaching box (which is defined as the area in front of that team’s bench) during game play. Coaches should only approach the scorer’s table during time-outs and quarter break periods. Coaches are not permitted on the inbounds portion of the court at any time while the ball is in play. No more than two coaches are allowed on the bench during the game. Only the head coach is allowed to stand during the game. An assistant coach is not permitted to stand except during team timeouts. If either a head coach or assistant receive a direct technical foul or a warning, the coach(es) for said team will not be permitted to stand except during time outs for the remainder of the game. ---PAGE BREAK--- Home teams will wear light colored jerseys. The Guest team will wear the darker colored jersey. Undergarment t-shirts, if worn, should be white in color. Shorts should be black. Home teams are always to be seated to the scorekeeper’s right. Guest teams are always to be seated to the scorekeeper’s left. Teams will begin the first half of each game shooting at the basket opposite their bench and will, therefore, always conduct pre-game warm-ups at this same goal. Teams will switch goals to begin the second half. Free substitution is allowed throughout the game. Basketball goals will be at 10-feet. The 5th/6th grade leagues will utilize a 28.5 size ball. The 7th/8th grade leagues will use an official size (29.5) ball. There are no restrictions on the types of defense employed except as stated below when a team has attained a 15 point lead and maintains such lead over and above 10 points.. Back court defensive pressure will be allowed with the following exception: No back court defensive pressure or a half court trap at the division line will be allowed by a team holding a 15 or more point lead. When a team’s lead is cut to 10 or less---that team may resume back court defensive pressure if it wishes. The one and one foul shot starts with the 7th team foul. Double bonus starts with the 10th team foul. Personal fouls will be recorded, and a player committing his or her 5th personal foul will foul out. A technical foul may be assessed if any player dunks or hangs on any rim during pre- game warm-ups and at half-time. A two minute overtime will be played if the game is tied at the end of regulation play. If the teams are tied at the end of the overtime period, the game will end in a tie. In the event of an overtime each team will be given one sixty second timeout for the overtime period. Timeouts may not be carried over from regulation play to the overtime period