[jammin' jamey]

2) The third base umpire should have been the last person to make the call, the home rum was to right-center, the farthest point from them. One of the umpires on the right side of the field should have ran towards the right-center area to make sure he they knew what the saw. I blame the umpires for that, lazy actions and just poor quality of officiating a game at that level..

The home plate umpire is the person that makes the call GRD or HR.

I wasn't there, but this has killed me all weekend. I hate this for the Johnson Central players….It's my understanding that the home plate umpire called HR, as did the 1B umpire (per the recap in the Ashland Daily Independent). Then the Ashland coach got to the 3B umpire who basically said "hold the phone" and that's when the fence issue was brought into play and well we know the rest.

The real problem here is Fisher Park and the temporary fencing. The KHSAA says this is good enough and last month awarded the softball tournament to Owensboro through 2018.

Why is it that Kentucky has to be inadequate? The OHSAA in Ohio plays it's state softball tournament at Akron's Firestone Stadium, designed for baseball and softball where the MAC holds is NCAA softball tournament and a professional fast pitch softball team plays. The WVSSAC in West Virginia has Vienna Park in Parkersburg with no temporary fencing complete with 3 fields of play and 3 used for warm-up purposes.

Other state have figured out Title IX…Kentucky, in this case the KHSAA, is dragging behind as always.