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A couple of years ago, I had a 16U fastpitch team that was notorious for delay of game tactics at tournaments where the games were on the clock. In this game that I had them in, there were about 10-15 minutes left on the clock and they began doing everything imaginable, from taking their time getting into the batter's box, to wanting to take a time out to talk to every batter...etc. I called time, told the coach that in my opinion they were dileberately stalling, and under the rules I could call the game a forfeit. He tried hemming and hawing about having to coach the batters, so I told him to do so before they came out to the on deck circle, because anything else that I or my partner percieved to be an attempt to burn the clock would result in an immediate forfeit. The delays stopped. The team that was trying to delay still won though.
Scott
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