When is runner ejected?

[WestMichBlue]

WITHDRAW THE QUESTION.

I was trying to determine the actual timing of the ejection, and if you could eject a player after the game was over. It was my understanding that you could have malicious contact which results in ejection, but not necessarily an out.

However, as Tom pointed out, there is some legitimacy to calling the out in ASA. She is definitely out in NFHS. A sentence in the NFHS book that I have always missed is the penalty for 3.3.S Malicious Contact is "A player that has been ejected for initiating malicious contact shall be declared out unless she has already scored."

The actual case that I presented was not interference. If anything, obstruction should have been called and the runner awarded home. However, using the NFHS ruling, I would assume that the ejection/out would take precedence over the obstruction. If you awarded the obstruction first, than the runner would have scored, and could not be called out.

WMB