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Originally Posted by tribefan1952

Hmm.. JRutledge makes a good point, but I suspect if the other game had been varsity, he wouldn't have raised a stink. It sounds like JV is beneath him. I was just wondering if you guys get stuck with only one ump very often, especially at the varsity/JV levels. Around here, it happens for Jr High games and occasionally for freshman games, but not varsity, unless there's a last-minute emergency. Even then, a replacement would be called in pretty quickly. Since this league had adopted an accepted procedure for splitting the umps to cover both games, it must not be that uncommon. Maybe they need to find a way to recruit more umps. (Maybe a pay raise?) It's not right to have only one ump at that level. It's not fair to the umps and it's not fair to the players.

Very rare that we have to work a Varsity game alone. If we do, we get an extra $20 ($78) for the game.

Only one umpire is assigned to JV games. Umpire is paid $7 ($65) more than a Varsity (2 man game $58) game.

Our association does not cover games below JV, due to a lack of umpires.