TOP GUN "CLAM ELITE LACROSSE LEAGUE"

CELL

Boys' Box Lacrosse Rules

Acton Indoor Sports Center

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1. Team Size: 12 players - 6 per team (1 goaltender, 5 forwards) - on the floor at a time, unless there is a penalty situation. One player must remain in the defensive zone at all times.

2. Eligibility: Only fully registered players may play. Fully registered means that Top Gun has: a registration form from the player, signed by him and a parent; current insurance information; full payment. A team playing with non-registered players will forfeit that game. In addition, a player who gives his jersey to a non- roster player to play for him will be suspended for one game.

3. Equipment: All players are required to wear a helmet (lacrosse or hockey), shoulderpads, armpads, gloves and a mouthguard. Goalies must wear a chest protector, throat guard and an athletic cup. Goalies may not wear "excessive" padding on their legs, torso or arms. "Excessive" shall be at the discretion of the referee. Exception: Grade school and middle school division goalies may wear additional padding, if they wish. All sticks in play should be regulation attack/middie, defense (for high school and middle school silver division players) or goalie crosses.

4. Game Length: two 20-25 minute running-time halves. 3 minute half-time. The last 2 minutes in a game, where the difference in score is 2 goals or less, will be stopped time.

5. Time-Outs: Each team is allowed 1, 60 second time-out in the second half only (unless otherwise indicated by the official or league representative at the beginning of the game.)

6. Overtime: If a score is tied at the end of regulation play, then a 3 minute, sudden-death overtime period is played. If the score is still tied at the end of that 3 minutes, overtimes will continue until the game's outcome is decided.

7. Face-Offs: Face-offs occur at the beginning of each half, at the beginning of any overtime period, and to restart play after an out of bounds situation where it cannot be determined who last touched the ball before it left play. There will be no face off after a goal; instead the ball will be put into play by the goalie.

8. Substitutions: All substitutions are on the fly or on a deadball stoppage of play (acknowledged by referee). There is no "horn".

9. Clearing the Ball: A team has 10 seconds to clear the ball over midcourt, except in man down situations where this rule is waived. The goaltender has 4 seconds to clear the ball from the goal crease.

10. Backcourt: Once a team has the ball in their offensive zone, it cannot move the ball "backcourt" into their defensive zone for any reason. Backcourt will result in a change of possession. The only exception is after a deflected or missed shot.

*On the Acton small court, the offensive team's defensive restraining line will be the "backcourt" line, not the midfield line as it has been in the past.

11. Penalties: All penalties are at least 1 minute in length - no 30 second penalties. Once a player accumulates 5 minutes of penalties in a games he "fouls out" and is removed from the game. A player begins serving his penalty as soon as the official has signaled the start of play, and he is in the penalty box and the door is closed. Penalties are released if a goal is scored against the offending team.

11b. Goalie Penalty: If a goaltender commits a technical or personal foul, then the penalty may be served by another player and the goaltender remains in the game. If a goaltender commits a major foul and is expelled from the game, all rules pertaining to major fouls are in effect.

12. Boarding: A player may not hit or push another player into the boards. Flagrant boarding will result in at least a 2-minute non-releasable penalty. (Repeated flagrant penalties here may result in removal from the game.)

13. 4 Point Rule: If there is a 4 point or more difference in the score, the team with the lower score begins play with possession after each of their scores.

14. Bench Area and Field of Play: Only team members and coaches (maximum of 2 coaches per team) are allowed in the bench area or field of play during a game or during half time.

15. Coaches are not allowed on the field at any time during game play.  Leaving the bench area while the game is in progress will result in immediate ejection from that game for that coach.  A second half ejection will result in an additional game suspension.  In extreme cases, a forfeit may result.
15a. Spectators are not allowed on the field at any time during game play.  Any spectator who enters the field while the game is in progress will be immediately removed from the facility.  In extreme cases, a forfeit may result.

16. Out of Bounds: The ball is considered "out of bounds" only if it is lost over the boards or glass, falls into the bench area, or touches a player or any person not in play on the court.

17. Forfeits: There are 2 situations which can result in a forfeit:
1) A team does not show up for a game or arrives with too few players. A team needs a minimum of 5 players, including a goalie, for the game to count, and a team may only play with less than 5 players and a goalie (6 players total) if the other team agrees to waive their right to a forfeit win.
2) A team plays with ineligible players. Only fully registered players can play, and can play only for the team they are registered to. A forfeit shall go into the books as a 1- 0 loss. Teams that forfeit more than once during the regular season -- without providing Top Gun 48 hours notice -- will not be scheduled for playoff or consolation round games. In addition, teams forfeiting in consolation or playoff round games will not get a consolation or playoff game the following week.

18b. Forfeiture Waiver: A team with too few players may compete with the help of substitute players if, and only if, the opposing team agrees to waive the forfeit rule and allows the substitute players to join the shorthanded team for the game. Only fully registered, age-appropriate and division-appropriate players from other Top Gun Box Lacrosse teams can play as substitutes.
Exception: Any full registered, age-appropriate and division-appropriate goalie may play for any team in need of a goalie, without prior approval from the opposing team.

* If a team forfeits twice in a session, they will be removed from the standings and playoff consideration, and may be withdrawn from the following session at the discretion of the league director.

19. Ejections: A player ejected from a game shall leave the bench area for the remainder of the game. A second half ejection shall result in a suspension from the following game. A second ejection shall result in expulsion from the league.

20. Weather Cancellations: Our facilities afford us no provision to make up games canceled due to weather, so games will be played if at all possible. If severe weather forces a cancellation, that information will be on the Top Gun information line at 781-834-5816, and/or posted at our web site topgunlax.com.

21. A high school or middle school silver division team may put one long pole on the court at a time. Two long poles on the court at any given time will result in an illegal procedure penalty. The use of long poles is strictly at the discretion of the team.
Long poles may not be used on the small courts in Plymouth and Acton, regardless of division.

22. Body checking in any middle school division game can be taken away at the discretion of either the Official or the League Director.

Most field rules apply to box lacrosse.