Fall Classic

To make your trip as easy as possible, we’ve partnered with Premier Hospitality Group for all your lodging needs. 

Preferred hotels can be found online HERE

• Teams are allowed ONE cooler per team
• Facility handles all food and beverage vendors
• Team tents are allowed but cannot be staked into the turf

• ONT International Airport — 5 miles
• Orange County — 30 miles
• Los Angeles — 40 miles
• San Diego — 90 miles

Ontario Sports Empire charges a parking fee per vehicle, collected on your way OUT of the venue — not on your way in.

*If you park in the parking garage, you will take a ticket and pay while inside.

LEGENDS LACROSSE BOYS TOURNAMENT RULES – Fall 2026
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Scoring and Time

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

Tournament Play – Pool Play

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

Playoff Rules 

•  2 – 21-minute 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 or when the ball is dead
•       Games with a 3 Goal or less lead clock will be stop-start time under 2 Minutes 
•       Overtime will begin immediately and be decided by sudden victory. The first goal scored wins the game.
  

• Injuries
  • Any injury within 2 minutes and under that requires the game to be stopped, and 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
•  Mercy Rule
  • (applies to 2035 and below) Applied when there is a 5-goal deficit in pool play.  Teams down by 5 or more goals will get a free clear after each goal.  Coaches can agree to waive this rule. DOES NOT APPLY TO PLAYOFFS
    
    
• Counts
  • 30 seconds to advance the ball into the box (Pool Play and Playoffs)
  • 2027 – 2035 Grad Years:  Clearing Counts.
  • No Counts – 2035 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.

• (PLAYOFF ONLY) 
  • If a score changes to 3 goals or less under 2 minutes, the clock will stop and start with the whistles
  • If teams are ahead by 4 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 (2035 and below)
    
    
• Penalties
  • Penalties are running time starting on the whistle (45 or 90 seconds). Penalty time stops during injuries, the end of quarters, and while another penalty is being assessed.
  • No Crease Dives

Boys Rules –  (8v8)

• Field/Players
  • 7 field players + 1 goalie = 8v8
  • 4×4 goals on a shortened field
• Fouls
  • First 3 team fouls will be assessed as warnings. The player who committed the foul will be subbed off for a new player.
  • After 3rd team fouls, instead of a warning/substitution, players will be assessed a penalty and serve time/team will play man-down.
• Technical penalties will be 45 seconds, and personal penalties will be 90 seconds
• Championship Games Only
  • No warnings/substitutions. All fouls will be time served/man-down.
• Additional Rules
  • No long poles
  • No counts on clears
  • No passing attempt needs to be made for a player to shoot
  • Over & Back does apply. Once a team clears the ball over the midfield, they need to keep possession in the offensive zone. Failing to do so will result in a whistle + turnover.

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.