Playing with 4

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by iubirdman

I loked in the case book last night, and it appears that if you have kids eligible to play, you cannot play with less than 5, but looking for clarification for future reference

That's the rule, but the specific enforcement might depend on the definition of "eligible."

I think they should have had more than 6 players to start with.

[tjones1]

Bob is right. How do you define eligible?

If the coach tells you they don't have anyone available then play on.

It's not up to us to determine why A1 (or whoever) is on the bench but can't play.

[iubirdman]

Thanks, it was in a JV game in Indiana (kids can play both games and 5 quarters total) and in the last few days they had a kid get sick and another quit taking them from 8 to 6.

They wanted the sub to play 2 varsity quarters, and if she would have played the last few seconds she would have only been able to play 1. The other teams 2 JV coaches are also licensed officials and they seemed certain on the rule. Like I mentioned in the past we had been told they had to play if they were on the bench so wanted to get clarification for future reference