JoePgh
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Remember that referees do not have the option to call a common foul after replay video review. If a common foul is not called immediately, it cannot be called at all. The only discretion that referees have after replay is to call an intentional or flagrant foul if the action on replay rises to that level.It was a foul. The foul was the stiff arm by Dalce outside the body. Paige got called for a soft outside arm on a box out of Olsen for her 4th foul in the 3rd quarter. The Dalce arm was a true hold. The refs went to review it apparently only to see who touched it last since no foul was called.
My guess is that the referees looked at the video and saw that Dalce committed a common foul with her arm check, but they could not call a common foul at that point. They didn't consider Dalce's action as any more than a common foul, so their only option was the no-call.
You can say that one of them should have seen and called the common foul in real time, but no referee sees everything.