[Sioux23]

The following situation happened in an ASA 35+ State Tournament. One courtesy runner allowed per inning which can be any player on the roster(courtesy runner can be in the line-up or it can be an eligible sub). Team has 12 players and they are batting 11. Tie game, bottom of 7th. Batter leads off inning with a hit down the line and hobbles into 2nd base. Team elects to use a courtesy runner for him. The next batter is intentionally walked. The 3rd batter hits into a double play and the lead runner moves to 3rd. The next 2 batters are intentionally walked to load the bases which brings up the player who is courtesy running. At this point the team batting tries to substitute their bench player who has not played yet to into the game and bat in that position. The other team complains and after a long discussion which eventually involves the UIC it is decided that the courtesy runner must come off the base and it is an out and the substitute is not allowed to enter the game for either the courtesy runner or the original lead-off hitter? This didn't seem like the correct interpretation? Anyone one have any thoughts or insight? I know that if the courtesy runner had been injured going from 2nd to 3rd that a substitute would have been allowed and the original hitter could have gone back to 3rd and the substitute allowed for the injured player. So does this really become a timing situation? The 2 batters intentionally walked after the double play were done so in an informal manner(i.e., the manager said we will walk the next 2 batters)....so there really wasn't an opportunity to call time in between the first and second batter to call time and announce what would have been a legal substitution for the on deck batter at the time.