Score keeping ?

[Palmer]

I know this is not a score keeping site, but who better to come too than the score keeping God's. This site has always been helpful and informative without getting to political....

My question concerns scoring errors versus hits in a standard high school softball game. My contention is that if a player should have made a play with usual effort, but failed to do so it is still an error. I have been informed that for an error to occur it has to have touched the player or her glove. It doesn't matter if it's a 3 or 4 bouncer to an infielder, if she doesn't touch it, it is not an error.

I thought "with reasonable or oridinary effort" was always the rule that applied...??? iF ANY UMPS OR SCORE KEEPRS KNOW THE GOLD STANDARD I WOULD APPRECIATE IT... THANKS

P.S. No daughter on the team, so I am not politicaly vested in the answer one way or another