[BillyMac]

2-2-4: The jurisdiction of the officials' is terminated and the final score has been approved when all officials leave the visual confines of the playing area.

A few years ago we had an official from another local board in our state, after leaving the visual confines of the playing area, and entering the officials locker room, come back out onto the floor to correct a bookkeeping mistake in the official scorebook, that led to the "losing" team actually winning the game. It got real ugly. Real, real ugly. Headline above the fold of the sports section of the local newspaper ugly. An article in every sports section of all the state newspapers ugly. Once both of you have left the visual confines of the playing area, don't stop, don't look back, don't answer a knock on the official's locker room door, unless you know for sure that it's a site director offering you some refreshments, or giving you your checks.

Of course our Forum members in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will do this after observing a bunch of kids shake hands, who don't really want to shake hands. If I'm not mistaken, their jurisdiction is terminated only when the final score has been approved, i.e., their jurisdiction has ended while they are still within the visual confines of the playing area. Plenty of time for some unsporting conduct, correctable errors, or bookkeeping mistakes, to pop up, that can't be charged, changed, fixed, or corrrected, according to NFHS rules. As good, ole Charlie Brown used to say, "Good grief".