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Originally Posted by Skahtboi

Au contraire The UIL has a system of protests that can be found on their website. Here is a short snippet:

"A participant school may protest an act or omission that is a violation of the Constitution and/or Contest Rules, but may not protest a contest judge’s, referee’s or other official’s decision."

It goes on to detail various types of protests and what steps are to be taken.

I will not attempt to belittle you with a condescending tone or French words, but I will ask that you be more specific as to where exactly this protest procedure can be found on the UIL website. Your "snippet" doesn't seem to support your assertion, in fact "but may not protest a contest judge’s, referee’s or other official’s decision" pretty much disproves it. What I did find on the website was that NFHS govern all UIL sports with the exception of football, golf, and one other. It goes on to say that any exceptions to NFHS rules can be found in each individual sports manual. There is no exception in the softball manual regarding protests. M.M. has not returned my call yet, but I did speak with the most recent past president and she was unaware of any change that would allow protests in a UIL softball game based on the playing rules. UIL violations such as ineligibility, yes, but playing rules, no.

As a matter of fact, as an officer in the local association, I have already had to handle a protest this year!

Interesting!