Thread: Federation point of emphasis - Malicious contact
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Old Thu Jan 16, 2014, 05:48pm
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Originally Posted by john5396 View Post
In many discussions here, I have seen the threshold for MC being "intent to injure". In this years official .ppt, NFHS presents this:

Suggested Parameters:
•Was the contact the result of intentional excessive force?
•Was there intent to injure?
The absence of these two conditions does not guarantee that malicious contact did not exist, they only provide a starting point for consideration!

Does this set of parameters change your threshold for what is MC?
So, under the first criterion, would grabbing a fielder/runner most likely be MC?
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