Fast Break

Preferred hotels for the Fast Break weekend are booked through the Legends housing portal. Dover has the bulk of the rooms, about twenty minutes from the complex.

Book your rooms here

DE Turf sits at 4000 Bay Rd, Frederica, DE 19963, on Route 1 between Dover and Milford. Philadelphia (PHL) is about ninety minutes north and BWI roughly two hours west; most teams drive. Games run 8:00 AM Saturday through 4:00 PM Sunday, so book departures after that window. Delaware has no sales tax, which is worth knowing before anyone buys a stick.

Scoring and Time

• Refs keep game time
• The table keeps the score and penalty time

Tournament Play – Pool Play

•  2 – 21 minutes halves
•  3-minute halftime
• 3/4 game guarantee (Pool Play)
• No Timeouts
• No Overtime
• 2026 NFHS Rules with modifications below

Playoff Rules 

•  2 – 21 minutes halves
• 3-minute halftime
•  Playoff Games…

• Teams are awarded (1) one-minute time-out per team in Regulation Time
• The clock will stop. Timeout does NOT roll over to OT.  No timeouts in OT
• A timeout can be called when the team calling the timeout is in possession of the ball, anywhere on the field
• Overtime will begin immediately and be decided by sudden victory.  OT will have a Running Clock on all whistles.  The first goal scored wins the game.

• Injuries
  • Any injury within 2 minutes and under that requires the game to be stopped, the clock stops with the injury.
  • For any injury with more than 2 minutes remaining when the game is stopped, a maximum of 1 minute will come off the clock to assess the injury before the clock is stopped

BOYS SPECIFIC RULES

•  No stick checks unless refs think a stick is outrageously illegal
•  4 pole maximum on the field
• Counts
  • 30 seconds to advance the ball into the box (Pool Play and Playoffs)
  • 2027 – 2034 Grad Years:  Clearing Counts.
  • No Counts – 2036 Grad Year and below.  Exception is a 4-second goalie count
  • The leading team must keep it in the box under 2 minutes if they are ahead by 4 goals or less.
    • If a score changes to 4 goals or less under 2 minutes, the clock will stop and start with the whistles
    • If teams are ahead by 5 goals or more, the clock will remain running
• Checking
  • Limited body checking in 2032 – 2036.  Big hits & physical play (even within three yards of a loose ball) constitute unnecessary roughness (90 sec penalty)
  • One-handed stick checks are not allowed in any youth divisions (2034 and below)
• Penalties
  • Penalties are running time starting on the whistle (45 or 90 seconds)  Penalty time stops during injuries, end of quarters, and while another penalty is being assessed.
  • No Crease Dives

EJECTIONS

• Game ejections are handled by the referees
• Tournament ejections are handled by the tournament director (2 unsportsmanlike conduct penalties warrant ejection or a 1-game suspension)

RANKINGS:

• Win = 3 points
• Loss = 0 points
• Tie = 1 point
  • In the event that a team needs to play a 4th pool game in order to give a second team their 3rd game:
    •  The 4th game will be identified and acknowledged with a ‘*’ on Tourney Machine
    • The 4th game will not count for any potential points or Goals Against for the team playing their 4th game
    • For the team playing their 3rd game, the results will count for points and goals against
    • In the event that there is a tiebreaker scenario, which includes a team’s head-to-head being their fourth game, that has been identified with ‘*’, the head-to-head will NOT be applied.
  • In the event that a team is declared a winner due to a forfeit 
    • For ranking purposes, the goals against average for the pool play games will be the average of the games that were completed 
      • Team A wins, 10-8 and 12-8, and then forfeit is 1- 0.  Their average of 8 GA will be used to rank

Tie Breakers

If 2 teams are tied with POINTS:

1. Head to Head
2. Goals Against TOTAL
3. Goals Against Common Opponent.  If multiple common opponents, take the sum.

If more than 2 teams are tied with POINTS:

1. If 1 team beats the other 2 teams, that team will advance, and the second 2 will fall back into the tiebreaker rules
2. Goals Against Total
3. Goals Against Common Opponent (only used if all teams played a common opponent.  If multiple common opponents, take the sum)
4. Coin Toss/Braveheart
   1. If a team is still tied after these tie-breakers and is eligible for the championship playoff bracket, a Braveheart may be used to determine who advances.  The tournament director will determine the scheduling of a Braveheart based on fields and availability

ROSTERING

• All players must be registered and can only play for 1 team, unless approved by the event director, in each event.
• Unregistered players are considered ineligible for play and, if found, may result in a team forfeiting games and player ejection from the event.
• Any teams who are found moving players or playing with ineligible players may forfeit that game, and possibly any others already played.

Attending vendors are announced as they register. Interested in vending? Fill out the vendor inquiry form. Looking to work the weekend? Apply through the weekend staff form.