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Originally posted by dtwsd
Because she got bumped into not pushed.
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A distinction without a difference. As described, she did not "bump" into her, she braced herself to protect herself, and crashed into the defender.
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Now that's quite an assumption.
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Are you new? Meaning no disrespect, but if you view 10U coaches being incapable of coaching this kind of behavior, I suspect you haven't gotten out much.
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Why humiliate a 9 or 10 year old by ejecting them?
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So you would rather endanger the other 9 or 10 yo player? Perhaps the runner's actions were as innocent as you believe them to be. Nonetheless, you are doing the game no favor if you allow this kind of baserunning to slide by without proper rules enforcement. The coaches and the players need to learn that, whether or not the defender had the ball (i.e. irrelevant to the interference call), intentional crashing into a defender is USC, and will result in ejection. It is a safety rule. It needs to be enforced, not ignored because the umpire is afraid of hurting the player's feelings.