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Association: Easts Basketball League

Game Date: 2025-11-23

Game Venue: EBL - WC

Game Time: 02:40:00 PM

Grade/Division: U12B

Team A: Bronte Bulls SPARKS

Team B: Ghosts

Reported Person: Ghosts Coach

Team: Ghosts

Role: Coach

Charges: 4, 9B, 9A, 12

Incident Details: Upon tip off Ghosts players repeatedly complained verbally and with body language (e.g throwing up hands) about foul calls. Upon warning individual players multiple times a regarding their conduct a warning was verbally administered to all players and coaches in the game. Minutes after the warning to all players, a player who had previously been warned individually reacted in a disrespectful and unsportsmanlike manner towards myself, receiving a technical foul. Shortly following this technical a shooting foul call was made on a drive to the basket. A different player exclaimed openly, "Nah that's the bad ref, not the good one" referring to myself, the offical who made the foul call, as the "bad ref". Subsequently he received a technical. As I was giving the technical and shooting foul to the bench the player said quote "So I'm not even allowed to talk now" in a highly patronising and rhetorical tone targeted at myself. There I gave the player his second technical and ejected him from the game. Ghosts coach subsequently complained surrounding the ejection, arguing that his players were "only 12", I was "ruining the game", I should give more leeway as the Ghosts only had five players and that my ejection was unreasonable. I responded informing the Ghosts coach that the conduct towards both officials by his players throughout the game was disrespectful and unreasonable, furthermore his team had already received multiple warnings and technicals preceding the ejection. Visibly upset the coach returned to his seat and the game continued. Minutes later the Ghosts coach yelled at me requesting the mercy rule as I was running up the court besides his bench. With my back to the scoreboard and no notification from the bench and my fellow offical I didn't know wether the Ghosts were entitled to mercy. Moving up the court I reply "yep, would you like mercy", before having the opportunity to check the score or enforce the mercy rule the Ghosts coach replied directly to me "of course I would fucking like mercy, come on". Upon the Ghosts coach exclamation to myself I ejected stoped the game, gave the coach a technical and ejected him from the game. Following the ejection the Ghosts coach got angry and started yelling at me, at this time John, who had come down to monitor the game following the first ejection stepped in and removed the coach. The coach repeatedly yelled at John that he wasn't ejected as he only had received one technical and refused to leave. At this point after some time of argument I stepped back in and informed the coach that he can be ejected from one technical and was ejected. At this point Cath came over and the coach was finally removed.

Officials: Javer C, Liam K, Jaxson C