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I would assume the umpire was wrong here, but any rule like this has to be local anyway, so who knows what it (or some other unmentioned local rule) has to say on the subject. Maybe your "unwritten rule" was written after the original rules, and your umpires have been asked to enforce it.
My question - what if F5 had simply said she was 16. Is the umpire likely to ask for a birth certificate? Seems wrong to have an umpire enforcing that in any case.
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