Softball: Duarte files protest with Southern Section

The Southern Section is investigating a protest filed by Duarte after a 3-2 softball defeat to Alhambra in a Division 5 first-round playoff game on Thursday, spokesman Thom Simmons said.

Duarte is alleging Alhambra took an illegal batting practice.

Here's a story from the Pasadena Star News.

-- Eric Sondheimer

Comments

[i hope]

i hope Duarte gets the butts handed to them in the next game... they are not a good team and deserve to lose!

[TOO HIP]

@ get over it....the rotest was filed BEFORE the game...how does that make them bad losers? Had they lost and then filed a protest, then I would agree with you. But the coaches saw something that was illegal, brought it to the attention of the umpires, before the game, as they have a right to do, and now we see how the authorities rule.....name calling simply means you have nothing intelligent to add to the discourse.

@ just saying...would you please just STOP saying....as I am pretty certain that Duarte didn't CHOCKE

[get over it]

bad losers... is this how your going to win games by lame protests. Don't punish the girls that put hard work and won the game.

[Just saying]

Duarte lost. Duarte coach should focus on his team and maybe they would not have CHOCKED!

[per Steve Ramirez of SGV trib]

According to the rule, which is on the CIF-SS website, organized soft toss. - with wiffle balls or softballs/baseballs - is a violation. I think the key is "organized," which by definition is a coach's authorization. And the reason the rule is in place is because the visiting team might have to travel a long distance, and no time to have batting practice, so the rule levels the playing field. But like any law, there are gray areas and thats where CIF-SS comes into play, like a trial court. In most college tournaments, most teams are already in town, so both have time to take pre-game batting practice.