South Salem High School
Lacrosse Club
Scorekeeping Instruction
Perspective
• Officials are in charge of the field, sideline and
spectators
• You are there to assist the officials
• You are not responsible for administering or
enforcing the rules.
• Ask the official if there is any doubt.
• Rely on the team effort by scorers, timers and
spotters.
• Home coach will expect certain statistics
• Enjoy the “Best seat in the house.”
Home Team Responsibilities
• Scorer and Timer have official status.
• Must drop allegiance to home team’s
coaches.
• Try not to root for either team, you are to
stay impartial.
• Be attentive to the game, officials and
Teams.
• Wear neutral colors. No team jackets or
hats.
Volunteer Roles
• Equipment Setup/Takedown
• Timekeeper
• Scorekeeper
• Spotter
Please arrive at least 20 minutes prior to game
time especially if it is your first time working at
the Score Table.
Equipment
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Timing Clock
Stop Watch
Scorebook & Scratch Paper
Pencils
2 Tables (1 for Home, 1 for Away)
6 Chairs
2 Air Horns
Equipment Setup/Takedown
Below is a diagram of how the scorekeeping
area should be set up.
Timekeeper Duties
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Keep an accurate account of game time.
Keep an accurate account of penalty time.
Inform the penalized player when their penalty time expires.
Notify the official 20 seconds before the end of each period.
Keep an accurate account of intermission time.
Notify each team 4 minutes before the start of the second half.
Notify the official 2 minutes before the end of the 4th quarter.
Sound a horn at the end of each period.
Sound a horn for substitutions, when requested and allowed.
Sound a horn twice at next dead ball for sideline violations or for a
Coach’s request to dispute the proper application of a rule by an
Official.
Timekeeper Duties Continued
Differences between JV and Varsity
Timekeeping
• JV Games are a 15 minute running clock and penalties
are 1 and a half times the penalty time assessed by the
official.
• Varsity Games are a 12 minute stop-time clock and
penalties are as assessed.
Varsity Exception: If a team goes ahead by 12 goals in
the 2nd half the game is switched to a running clock. It
stays as a running clock unless the goal deficit goes
below 12 where it then switches back to a stop-clock.
Scorekeeper Duties
• Enter players for both Teams in the score book. Order is
important please enter them as the Coach specifies. You will
share your book with the other team so each can record the
other teams players.
• Keep a record of goals and assists for each team.
• Keep a record of players making goals or assists.
• Check the score with the official at the end of each period.
• Keep a record of each player committing a foul and the type
of foul.
• Notify the official when any player accumulates 5 minutes
personal fouls. That player will not play the rest of that game.
Scorekeeping Duties Continued
Items to keep track of are:
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Quarters each player is in
Shots they make on goal.
Goals they make and time it was made.
Assists they make. (Only one assist per goal.)
Ground Balls they pick up.
Who wins Faceoffs
Timeouts Taken by each Team
Saves by goalies
Penalties: Technical Fouls & Personal Fouls
• Technical Fouls: Conduct foul, crease violations, holding, Illegal Field, Illegal
offensive screening, Illegal procedure, Interference, offside, pushing, stalling,
warding off, withholding the ball from play, failure to advance, goalkeeper
interference, ball mired, ball caught in equipment, ball stuck in Crosse.
• Personal Fouls: Cross check, expulsion, fighting, Illegal body check, illegal
body check, illegal field, illegal Crosse, illegal equipment, slashing, tobacco,
tripping, unnecessary roughness, unsportsmanlike conduct.
• Flagrant Foul results in ejection from the game.
Penalty Rules
• Without comment and within 20 seconds, leave the field through the
table area.
• Penalty time shall begin with the next whistle commencing play
• Releasable penalties are released when the penalty time expires or
when the opposing team scores a goal
• Non-releasable penalties are released only when the penalty time
expires
• Penalties carry over between periods
• Penalties on opposing teams that begin on the same tick of the
clock have common time non-releasable
• Multiple releasable penalties on a single player are all releasable on
an opposing goal
• Non-releasable penalties are served first
• Goalies serve all their own penalties
• If the in-home is in the box, the next player on the roster serves
Spotter Duties
By doing a good job as a spotter you allow the scorekeeper to do the
best possible job of recording all the necessary statistics.
• Help determine which players are on the field at the start of the
game and the start of the second half.
• Call out players numbers as they enter the field during play.
• Player # that took a shot on goal.
• Player # that scored the goal.
• Player # that assisted with the goal.
• Player # that picks up a groundball.
• Player # that wins the faceoff.
• Saves by goalies.
Sample Scoresheet