I had attempted to post a response yesterday but for some reason it disappeared.
SCalScoreKeeper, in the article that you post, it seems evident that the officials did not know Rule 11-2 Penalty 2: "If a team has used all its time-outs, loss of rally/point is awarded to the opponent, and the game shall be resumed immediately." It is hard for me to believe that CIF-SS (Southern Section of CIF) would assign officials to a Sectional Play-off match who would screw up the rule so badly, but it seems to be the case.
One thing that is interesting in the article you shared is how the writer intimates that Desert Christian lost any chance of participating in the CIF State Championships and that their season was over, however, that was not the case. CIF-SS runs their sectional play-offs in a format that is different from any other section in California. CIF-SS sectional play-offs are done based on the strength of the league/conference in which each team plays. When the Sectional Play-offs are done, the schools for the State Championships are selected based on their enrollment as is done in all other sections of the state.
Desert Christian - who lost the match to Faith Baptist in the CIF-SS Divison V-AA Play-offs - received the #8 seed in the Division V Southern California CIF State Brackets while Faith Baptist was not selected to participate even though they finished as runner-up in Division V-AA. So, Desert Christian ended up playing the number 1 seed, Tri-City Christian, and losing in three games, 25-15, 25-16, and 25-12. Therefore, as of November 20th, their season finished.
My season will finish up on Saturday at the San Jose Event Center. I have been selected to be the scorekeeper for the Division III final at 2:00pm and the Division I final at 5:00pm. I know they will be great matches and I am honored to be selected as the scorekeeper. One thing I have learned over the last couple of years - you can survive a match with a lousy Referee (R1) and you can survive match with a lousy Umpire )R2), but it is going to be a long day in h-e-double hockey sticks if you have a lousy scorekeeper!!!
(and the nice thing is that I know that in neither match will there be a lousy Referee nor Umpire!)!!!