Untimed down after grounding (again)

[chapmaja]

To me this seems to be an open and shut legal case. The officials screwed up, but based on the rules of the IHSA, which the losing schools agrees to abide by, the result shall be upset.

I read through the list of complaints and it appears many of them are attempts to confuse or redirect the court from the actual IHSA rules.

We had an interesting situation in boys soccer in Michigan's post-season.

In a regional final that went to penalty kicks, a goal was disallowed when the officials penalized the shooter for shooting out of order. The team that was penalized ended up losing the shootout. They appealed to the MHSAA.

The MHSAA has a rule that states the judgment of the officials on all NFHS rules shall be final.

The MHSAA upheld the appeal on this because in this instance, the order of shooters is not mentioned in the NFHS rules. There is a MHSAA rule covering penalty kicks for advancement in the post-season tourney. That rule does not specify a specific shooting order be declared. Since there was no NFHS rule in play, and the MHSAA policy was violated, the MHSAA ordered the game continued from the point of the disallowed goal. They had to come back the day before the state semi-final to continue the PK's. The result remained exactly the same after it was continued.