[zr1]

The other night in my league play, I was reffing where one team had a sub that night as one of their setters, and basically everything he touched was mangled horribly. We're talking right hand clearly contacting the ball first, pushing it towards the left, and then both somehow continuing out to make it go somewhere within 90 degrees of the target...

The problem: both teams were running a 6-2, the 3 other setters handled everything mostly clean. The other team opened with a huge run, it was something like 13-2 before the bad setter even got in the back row, but the side out putting him there was me calling a double on a pretty bad set from the other team. So now he's settings, first ball he touches is terrible, I whistle it. Same with the second. The third was also really bad, but at that point I started letting it go - my thinking the score was very lopsided at this point, may as well let them get some play in. Second game I was also rather lenient, and it was also a blowout, and thankfully after that I was done.

So - is this the right thing to do? What if the game was/got closer, do I start calling it again? I don't want to take over a game as the ref, but at the same time, it's not really fair to the team with decent setters to let every double contact on a set in the entire match go because one setter can't handle the ball... Anyone have experience / tips for handling this?