[Manny A]

JUCO pre-game. Home team was not ready for the bat inspection per NCAA rules. They had the latest version of the list, but it was not highlighted and did not reflect the number of team bats they had in their possession. They also had a completed list from a previous game on hand, so my partner and I asked the coach to transpose the info from the previous list to the new list if all the bats were the same.

A few minutes later, the coach handed us the new list. Still no highlighted lines (they didn't have a highlighter); they just marked "1", "2", etc., in the "# units" column. On the first page, they had "1"s for five different model bats by Anderson. But as my partner and I quickly discovered, all the "1"s annotated were one row off. The coach didn't have the old and new lists aligned when she started marking the new one!

The NCAA rule book says, "Before the game, all [bat list] discrepancies must be reconciled and bats not accounted for in the count and via highlight shall not be allowed to remain in any team area nor on the field." My partner and I fixed the team's discrepancies on the first page of the list with the coach present, but should we have done that? Or should we have given the list back to the coach and tell her to fix things? We waited long enough to get the bat check done, and we were approaching game start time.

Thoughts?