SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — The Jenkins athletic director submitted an official grievance with the Georgia Excessive Faculty Affiliation of what they consider is a clock discrepancy that occurred on the ultimate play of regulation within the Ladies Class AAA semifinal recreation towards Cherokee Bluff on Feb. 28 at HPE Enviornment on the campus for Fort Valley State, Jenkins athletic director Anthony Welch stated in a textual content message to a gaggle of Savannah sports activities reporters and anchors.
Late within the ball recreation junior ahead Taylor Younger made a subject aim with 3.8 seconds remaining within the contest. Then on the following play, Cherokee Bluff made a shot earlier than the buzzer sounded.
In a video of the sport from the NFHS Community, which streams a number of highschool video games all through the nation, the clock from the gamecast didn’t seem to begin when the Cherokee Bluff participant’s hand touched the ball. Nevertheless, the gamecast clock just isn’t the official recreation clock. The scoreboard on the venue the place the sport is performed is the official recreation clock. On this case HPE Enviornment. WSAV has not seen any video with the official recreation clock to see if it began on the appropriate time.
Per rule, when the sport clock is at relaxation, it resumes when a participant from both workforce makes contact with the ball.
“Each groups play effectively,” Welch stated. “We do not need to put a black eye over it, however I at the least owe it to our workforce to ensure that we at the least contact the Georgia Excessive Faculty and ship them the video that we had after which allow them to decide. Their bylaws say they do not use video replay to really overturn a contest.”
Coach Welch forwarded a replica of the e-mail despatched to GHSA Government Director Tim Scott. Within the e mail Welch writes, “I’m emailing the above GHSA workers for the aim of interesting the end result of the GHSA Ladies AAA State Semifinals recreation between Cherokee Bluff Excessive Faculty and Jenkins Excessive Faculty.
“We’ve got proof within the type of a video clip that the clock didn’t begin when the ball touched the Cherokee Bluff participant’s hand with 3.3 seconds left within the recreation, the shot that the participant scored on ought to have by no means been counted as a result of the clock didn’t begin when it touched her hand on the inbound play.”
Later within the e mail, he wrote the clock operator was “negligent and never attentive,” which they consider price the Woman Warriors an opportunity to play for the state title on Wednesday in Macon.
GHSA Government Director Tim Scott responded citing GHSA structure by-law 2.92 e and NFHS Rule 2-5.
“The Nationwide Federation prohibits using video tape to evaluation an offical’s determination,” Scott writes.
He goes on to say, “The referee has the ultimate say in correcting errors, together with timing errors, if found in an inexpensive timeframe. As soon as the sport has formally ended and the officers depart the ground, the end result is remaining, and no protest is allowed.”
He ended his e mail by congratulating Jenkins on an ideal season.
The GHSA did verify an e mail alternate between Welch and Scott.
Coach Welch additionally said he can be in favor of increasing using video replay to highschool basketball.
“Excessive schoolers are taking part in laborious,” Welch stated. “They play laborious all 12 months. One factor you don’t need is it to be taken away by a clock, not beginning or one thing alongside that nature, one thing that is correctable. We’re doing it for soccer. I do not see why we should not do it for basketball as effectively”
The Jenkins women’ basketball workforce had an historic season. They gained a playoff recreation for the primary time in program historical past and carried the success all the way in which to the state semifinals.
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