Illegal Alignments

[Andy]

Last night, I was working a HS JV match. I was R2. My partner, who I have worked with several times before, and I must have made about six illegal alignment calls against one team and I know that I recognized at least two others too late to blow the whistle. These were not close calls, in each case the players were overlapping by at least a step. Every time we called it, the players and coaches looked at us like we were from Mars! Once we explained the call, we didn't have any other problems.

There are only two weeks left in the HS season. I asked the coach after the match if these alignment calls had been made prior to this match. She said "no, never." She said that they had been running the same system all season.

This really concerned me because, to me, these were obvious alignment calls and I'm sure that this team had been doing this all season. Are any of the rest of you that regularly do HS ball seeing this?