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dtref - go the the NFHS website under the Softball section. Read the error correction there. "About to receive" was mistakenly reinserted into the 2006 book in 8-4.3b. Take a pen and line it out in your book and then discuss this with your partner.
Also, "about to receive" was mistakenly left in 8-6.14 last year, but has been removed this year. Previously this rule read that interference was the call if a runner stayed on her feet and crashed into a defender that had the ball, or was about to receive the ball. That entire sentence was deleted in 2006. Now if a runner stays on her feet and runs into a defender that does not have the ball, obstruction is the call.
If a defender in blocking the basepath without the ball, you have two actions that will result in an obstruction call. (1) the runner deviates. (2) the runner does not deviate and contact occurs.
If the contact is judged to be malicious, the penalty for 8-6.14 is to call the runner out, and eject her.
If the defender has the ball, and the runner stays on her feet and makes illegal contact (a slide is legal contact), then the call is interference and runner is out, using 8-6.13.
WMB
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