Another sport added to growing intramural collection
Intramural sports ready to launch team handball league
Jamie Muir
Issue date: 2/3/10 Section: Sports
By Jamie Muir
Bellarmine University Intramural Sports participants must learn team handball rules in order to participate in the Spring 2010 Team Handball League. Handball is well known in many European countries, where it originated, but is lesser known in the United States. Many students are unfamiliar with handball and its rules.
Traditionally, a team handball game is played between two teams with seven players on each team. A game consists of two 30-minute halves with a 10-minute half time. A game ends in a tie at the end of these halves unless it demands a winner, at which time it will go into two five-minute overtime periods.
Each team has four field players and a goalie. Field players dribble or pass to advance the ball up the court, where they then shoot on a guarded goal. If the ball is thrown out of play at any time, a throw in takes place.
Many handball rules involve the goalie arc, or in Bellarmine's Team Handball League, the three-point line on the basketball court. Field players, when shooting, may not enter the goalie arc. The goalies are the only players allowed to contact the ball below the waist when making kick saves. And while goalies are allowed to dribble the ball if already outside of the goalie arc, they may not leave the arc with the ball.
Fouls are called for rule violations. If a rule violation occurs when shooting, a penalty shot is awarded. If it does not occur on a shot, a throw in takes place.
In Bellarmine's Team Handball League, each game will be played between two teams of five players. A game will consist of two 15-minute halves with a two-minute half time. If teams are tied at the end of the second half, a three-minute overtime period will be played. If the first overtime results in another tie, five players on each team will take penalty shots in a second overtime. Games will be played on the SuRF Center's basketball courts.
Chuck Vogt, Director of Intramural and Club Sports, anticipates the league will begin February 1. For more information about team handball or to learn more about other intramural sports, contact Vogt at cvogt@bellarmine.edu.
Bellarmine University Intramural Sports participants must learn team handball rules in order to participate in the Spring 2010 Team Handball League. Handball is well known in many European countries, where it originated, but is lesser known in the United States. Many students are unfamiliar with handball and its rules.
Traditionally, a team handball game is played between two teams with seven players on each team. A game consists of two 30-minute halves with a 10-minute half time. A game ends in a tie at the end of these halves unless it demands a winner, at which time it will go into two five-minute overtime periods.
Each team has four field players and a goalie. Field players dribble or pass to advance the ball up the court, where they then shoot on a guarded goal. If the ball is thrown out of play at any time, a throw in takes place.
Many handball rules involve the goalie arc, or in Bellarmine's Team Handball League, the three-point line on the basketball court. Field players, when shooting, may not enter the goalie arc. The goalies are the only players allowed to contact the ball below the waist when making kick saves. And while goalies are allowed to dribble the ball if already outside of the goalie arc, they may not leave the arc with the ball.
Fouls are called for rule violations. If a rule violation occurs when shooting, a penalty shot is awarded. If it does not occur on a shot, a throw in takes place.
In Bellarmine's Team Handball League, each game will be played between two teams of five players. A game will consist of two 15-minute halves with a two-minute half time. If teams are tied at the end of the second half, a three-minute overtime period will be played. If the first overtime results in another tie, five players on each team will take penalty shots in a second overtime. Games will be played on the SuRF Center's basketball courts.
Chuck Vogt, Director of Intramural and Club Sports, anticipates the league will begin February 1. For more information about team handball or to learn more about other intramural sports, contact Vogt at cvogt@bellarmine.edu.
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