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Originally posted by Dakota

The NFHS rules give you a lot more flexibility here than you state. NFHS Rule 9-2-2 says the official scorebook is the home team's book unless the plate umpire rules otherwise.

If the home scorebook is official, then the home scorekeeper is a game official. As the UIC for the game, you have authority over him - not on his scorekeeping duties per se, but on whether or not he remains an official of the game and where he needs to be and how he needs to conduct himself as an official.

Here is a suggestion: Before the game, get together with him and with the home coach. Explain that you are designating him to be the official scorekeeper, assuming he wishes to perform that duty. If he accepts, tell him he will need to remain seated inside or next to the dugout and conduct himself at all times in a manner consistent with a game official.

If he is not willing, or he later misbehaves, you can designate the visitors as the official book.

Whether you can "eject" a game official... that's another thing altogether!

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Unable to find the post where I posted that I had this problem
with the official scorer. He was arguing balls, strikes, outs, safes,
and etc. I finally ejected him and told visitors that they were
the official book. (I did compare books before turning the duties
over to the new "official scorekeeper"