Jordan Downs Ejections

	Name	Sport	Date	School	Notes
	Name	Sport	Date	School	Notes
	Bryan Valance-Perez		May 02	Ogden	Two players from opposing teams were battling for the ball and pulling each others shirts. The ball goes out of bounds and I elected to go with a throw-in rather than a foul since both players were equally holding each other. The Ogden player involved in the play looked at me and asked for a foul since the ball went off of him. I tell him you both were equally holding, he nods his head in agreement and turns to continue playing. Before the throw in Ogden player Bryan Valance-Perez runs from 20 yards away and starts yelling at me insisting I should have called a foul. He then asks why I did not call a foul. I explain to him why I did not call a foul. He disagrees with my decision and continues yelling at me in disagreement. I pull out my yellow card and card him for dissent. I point to his sideline and ask him to leave the field since he was just carded. He then begins to yell at me for showing him a card. He gets closer to me and continues to yell at me about about what he believes is a poor decision for not calling a foul and now showing him a yellow card. I blow my whistle loudly, step back, and tell the player no more or he will earn a second yellow, while I signal no more for everyone else to see. He continues to argue and again steps closer to me. I tell him to leave the field, again blow my whistle loudly, and again tell him no more while signaling no more for the crowd to see. He continues in disagreement. I pull out my yellow card again and show Bryan Valance-Perez a second yellow for dissent and then a red card for his second yellow.
	Mads Dalbram		May 02	Ogden	As soon as the whistle blows to end the game I walk to the goal area. Two Highland players come by to show good sportsmanship and shake my hand. One Ogden player also makes his way from midfield. I stick out my hand to shake his assuming he is also there to show good sportsmanship. He declines the offer to shake my hand and begins to tell me how wrong I am to show his teammate a second yellow resulting in a red. I begin to tell him why his teammate was show the two yellow cards resulting in a red. He disagrees and continues to tell me his opinion. Not happy with my decision and seeing the conversation is not changing the cards he decided to end the conversation with "your bullshit". I blow my whistle and show a red card to Mads Dalbram for language.
	Jared Anderson		May 09	Bonneville	As soon as the game end, Jared Anderson came onto the field yelling and screaming at me. I tried ignoring him thinking it was an angry parent, he took offense and began charging at me while screaming and yelling. At this point I realized it was a coach, I turned to him, (he at one side of the center circle and myself at the the other) held out a stop sign with both hands and stated you will be red carded if you come to me. He paused for a second and charged toward me continuing his yelling and screaming. As he entered the half circle coming toward me. I pulled out my red card, holding it down. So he could see I meant it if he came to me. He continued toward me and soon began yelling and screaming in my face. I held up the red, said nothing, turned and walked away. He continued yelling for a minute but did not follow as I walked away. After the altercation, head coach, Fritz Beckman came over in a calm and respectful manner and we spoke with the two assistants referees by my side. I learned the altercation occurred at the end of the game because of something I said that was taken out of context. The following leads up to and includes the incident. During the second half #13 Mathis Burton and #10 Dallin Degroot. Stated very foul language and took shots at me as a referee. Dallin stated the following phrase toward me throughout the second half. 2x- Your are fucking moron ref. 3x- Fuck you. 2x - You Fucking suck. 6x - This is Fucking bullshit 3x - you got to be fucking kidding me. 2x - You should Fucking go home Mathis stated the following. 8x - You suck ref. 4x - open your eyes 4x - you can't see anything 3x - your blind Rather than card either player for there language or dissent I decided to talk into ending the bad behavior. I asked repeatedly to stop it, told them to stop it and even blew my whistle when the ball went out of bounds to call them over and tell them to knock it off. Knowing it was the end of the season and they were frustrated being down 3-0 and eventually 4-0. After Dallin #10 directed "fucking" this and that toward me, multiple upon multiple times I turned to his Coach Fritz as the ball was out of play and asked him to help me with #10 and #13. He did nothing and they continued the unacceptable behavior. Looking back, after I asked the Coach Fritz to help me and the behavior continued #10 Dallin Degroot should have been Red Carded and #13 Mathis Burton should have received a yellow card. However in the moment I decided that I would try to resolve this issue without cards knowing they were frustrated and that it was the end of the season. I honestly did not want to send off a player and have him be suspended for the last high school game of his career. As the half came to the final 10 minutes they were continuing the foul language and shots direct at me. During a stoppage of play for a corner kick one the players stated "the ref is the only reason we are not going to the playoffs" while staring directly at me. I, in return stated "no, you guys don't play soccer is the real reason." Referring to them whining about every call or no call that does not go there way. They then turned to me calling me more names using "Fuck" and stating you can not say that to us. The corner kick comes in and they all begin to play again. They do continue the foul language directed toward me when they disagree with a call. Knowing the score is 4-0 I give them a couple of foul calls. And work my way through the remainder of the game without handing out a card.
	Mason Hoffman		March 16	Bountiful	48' - Reckless challenge. Charged into Davis keeper from distance with speed in an attempt to head the ball. Did not play ball and collided into keeper. ***note Davis keeper left the game and did not return due to the collision. Coach said he left to hospital for x-rays which were positive and will require surgery to wrist area.
	Diego Graham		March 22	Cottonwood	56' - Tripped Olympus forward in penalty area to prevent a goal scoring opportunity. All four D's were in place for DOGSO red.
	Dejen Abreha		March 22	Cottonwood	78' - Dejen Abreha connected a closed fist swing in the chest of an Olympus player away from the play. Shown Red card for Violent Conduct.
	Ismael Garcia		April 12	Northridge	Denying goal scoring opportunity. Ismael was goal keeper and last man between goal and forward with possession of the ball. Ismael missed playing the ball and fouled the opponent preventing a goal scoring opportunity. Foul occurred inside the penalty area, with the direction of play going toward goal. The offensive player was within playing distance of the ball when the foul occurred.
	Noah Larkin		April 17	Davis	Denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity. Goal keeper, Noah Larkin, stopped a shot on goal, outside of the penalty area, by handling the ball in the 78’.
	Isaac Luquinn		May 10	Roy	Foul by last defender as opponent was going toward goal. Foul occurred just outside the penalty area. (DOGSO)