Overview
The Club mixes the Ladies and Men: young and experienced: advanced and beginners: for 15 weeks of social basketball. Players interested in joining the Club are encouraged to participate as Guests. If you are interested in playing please see our contact page.
Summer League Key Goals
- To provide a social basketball environment in which male and female club members can participate on reasonably level terms
- To raise money for club funds
- To provide a showcase for the club that will allow potential members to join in a club activity as a way of establishing whether they would like to join us more permanently
- To enable friends of the club (e.g. past members now at University & local friends) to join in an activity with club members
Summer League is not:
- Intended for the fastest and most powerful players to run at full power. Summer League accommodates smaller, lighter, slower and less advanced players, both female and male
- Purely an outlet for local members from other clubs to play ‘street ball’
Summer League Regulations:
With the exception of the amendments below, all matches shall be played under the rules as specified in the current edition of the EB Rule Handbook.
- No Pay, No Play: The Summer League Committee must be in receipt of all entry fees prior to the first fixtures.
- Fixture Notification: All fixture notifications will be sent out through Teamer.net – If you have any issues using this service then you should contact your team captains. If you do not reply then it shall be deemed that you will not be attending that fixture.
- Length of Game: Playing time shall be 32 minutes, separated into four quarters of 8 minutes. Half time shall be 3 minutes and all other intervals 1 minute. When a team has more than 10 players the clock will be stopped in the 2nd quarter at 4 minutes. The play shall continue until the ball is dead. At this point the substitutions can be made and the clock resumed.
- Timeouts: Each team may request one timeout per half.
- Tied Game: If the game is tied after regulation time, a free-throw shoot-out will commence to determine the result.
- In the shoot-out, each team alternately takes three free-throws. If, after this procedure, both sides have converted the same number of shots, free-throws will continue to be taken in the same order, until one team has scored one more than the other from the same number of shots.
- The initial three free-throws must be taken by three of the active five players who are on court at the end of the fourth quarter. If a team finishes the game with less than five players, the opposing team may nominate a player to shoot twice.
- Players who have been disqualified or fouled out will not be allowed to participate in the free-throw shoot-out
- During the shoot-out the men shall use a men’s sized basketball and the ladies shall use a ladies’ sized basketball.
- Balls: Each game will be played with a ladies sized basketball for the first half and a men’s sized basketball for the second half.
- Players on court: Each team must have a minimum of one woman and one man on the court at all times.
- Scoring: Any basket scored by a female player during regulation time, will score double points.
- Offensive Aggressive or Excessively Powerful Play: Referees will be encouraged to call a violation under the heading of "Offensive aggressive or excessive powerful play in the vicinity of lighter players". This includes the following example: A male player intentionally driving into a female player whether or not they are set in their defensive position. A violation is given against the offensive team and the defence gain possession of the ball. If persistent aggressive or excessive powerful play occurs then the referees are able to call the appropriate personal foul.
- Defensive Aggressive or Excessive Powerful Play: Referees will be encouraged to call a violation under the heading of "Defensive aggressive or excessive powerful play in the vicinity of lighter players". This includes the following examples: (A) A lighter player is going to the basket for a layup and the defensive player comes from either the side or behind in attempt to block the ball. (B) A lady gets aggressive blocked by a male. These will result in a violation against the defensive team and 2 shots for the lady who shot the ball. If persistent aggressive or excessive powerful play occurs then the referees are able to call the appropriate personal foul.
- Substitutions: Substitutions shall only be allowed 4 minutes through the 2nd quarter of a game when a team has more than 10 players, or in the case of an injury or a player fouling out.
- Personal Fouls: Each player is permitted four personal fouls per game, with the fourth foul leading to the player fouling out of the game. If a player receives 2 technical fouls then they will be disqualified from the game.
- Team Fouls: Each team is permitted six team fouls per half, the opposing team receiving penalty shots on every foul thereafter.
- Reserves: The club will run a reserve pool of players who do not wish to fully participate in Summer League. Any player from this list may be called upon if a team is short of players. When calling players up to replace absentees, the Summer League Committee encourage team captains to replace ‘like for like’. Teams are under no obligation to call on other players if they are short in numbers, but they may not replace missing players with ‘guests’ of their own or players from other teams in Summer League. Players may however be added to the pool during the course of the competition. Reserves may not play in more quarters than any of a team's regular players.
- Discipline: Any player who incurs a technical or disqualifying foul will be brought to the attention of the Summer League Committee. The maximum penalty, which the committee may impose for a technical foul, is a one game suspension for the player and a one-point deduction from their team’s League points. No limits have been imposed on the penalty for a disqualifying foul.
- Continuous Disciplinary Issues: Continued or blatant disregard to the rules may result in a player being disqualified from further action within summer league and may also incur additional club punishments.
- Officials: Each team is required to supply one referee and one table official for the game preceding or following theirs. All players are expected to assist their team captains with the duties.
- Minutes: Where possible, players must receive an equal number of quarters. The table below shows, depending on the number of players available, how many quarters each person should expect to play.
- For 1.5 Quarters please see substitutions. When a team has more than 10 players the team captains will be asked to fill in their teams for the 1st 2 quarters at the table prior to the game starting.
Caveat: The Summer League Committee does not claim to have foreseen all possible situations relating to the running of the competition. Therefore, in the event of an ambiguous situation, a dispute or a misunderstanding of the rules, we reserve the right to apply resolutions in the best interests of all the entrants and within the intended spirit of the competition. Such ‘resolutions’ shall be decided by way of majority vote.
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