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Just the way it is called....
As Carl said, this is a baseball board, but....
I've seen this called at the Division I level myself.
As a semi-retired 11 year basketball official, the whole notion offends my sensibilities. The contact is either a block or a charge, not both.
Each official should have primary areas of coverage. If the foul occurs in that area and two fists come up, the official who is outside his area of responsibility should hesitate and yield to the other official. I've never seen the double foul in a level lower than NCAA. In 2-man, it is even easier, since the areas of coverage are rather well-defined.
I think it happens in college ball because those officials are so headstrong that neither yields to the other's call. So instead of flipping a coin, we end up with a double foul.
Rich
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