Counting multiple cells problem (countif)

Hello all,

Having trouble getting a formula to count an entire cell range for me.  I'm assigning hockey games and trying to figure out how many times one referee will see a team.  How do I count row by row if an official is to see the team.  (and it can't be a full range on the page, or it tells me how many times in the cells I have the referee and then the team, not taking into account that they maybe on different games.

I tried the countifs function and can't seem to get it to work....I'm pretty good with excel so pulling out my hair here :-)

Thanks

Phil