CR reported but not in game

[AtlUmpSteve]

When a substitute is reported, s/he is officially in the game once the PU accepts the change. That means the legal player on base is the CR. In ASA, there is an EFFECT that failing to report as a CR results in disqualification of the CR; but no such note in NFHS.

Since the legal person on base is the CR, and the pitcher may not reenter to run (unless CR is required as the only available substitute for an injury or disqualification, or the CR herself is injured or disqualified), I would submit that the illegal substitute is the pitcher.

As others have stated, preventative officiating (and working together as a team) should keep this from happening. I could only excuse this if there was also a conference during this stoppage, and when the multiple players broke from the huddle, THEN it wasn't noticed that the CR didn't enter. (Another good argument for the NCAA disallowing the gratuitous huddles as freebie conferences without a charged conference.)