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Originally posted by bob jenkins
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Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
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Originally posted by RecRef
Speaking of balls, has anyone run across a 10 panel ball this year? Also has anyone order one from the add in the Rules Book?
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Yes, I have. The only time that I have seen them used so far was last summer in the YBOA Boys' and Girls' National Championship Tournaments. They were the YBOA official balls by Rawlings. The ironic thing about using them was the fact that the tournaments were being played under the NFHS 2002-03 rules, they were technically illegal, but we used them anyway and I did not see any difference in play between the ten panel balls and eight panel balls.
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How can the league make such a determination contrary to the rules? How could the officials work in such a league?
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I cannot remember who made the YBOA official ball for the 1998 YBOA Girls' Nationals, but the site I was at for the first day of the tournament, the balls were so bad that the site manager (the H.S. boys' varsity coach at the school) went into the school's equipment room, and brought out five girls' balls that the girls' varsity used the previous season. Later in the day, a YBOA official came to our site and became upset because we were using the YBOA balls, but when the site manager showed him how poor they were he agreed and made sure that there were new balls at the site the next day. He was one YBOA official that was not happy with the ball manufacturer.
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Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
Trumbull Co. (Warren, Ohio) Bkb. Off. Assn.
Wood Co. (Bowling Green, Ohio) Bkb. Off. Assn.
Ohio Assn. of Basketball Officials
International Assn. of Approved Bkb. Officials
Ohio High School Athletic Association
Toledo, Ohio
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