10-21-2018, 12:40 PM
in the Oregon match, Stanford was awarded the point in the 2nd game at 14-13, making it 15-13. The Oregon coach then was talking to the refs as TV went to a commercial. When the commercial was over, the score had become 14-14, with the announcers saying that the refs ruled that there was a double contact by Stanford.
HUH? Whether a touch is a double contact or not is not listed as something that can be challenged under the Challenge Review System. (And, indeed, a replay of the broadcast shows there was NOT a double contact. The Oregon coach got upset after the ball went off the heel of Plummer's left hand and picked up spin. (First contact was by the back of McClure's hand, 2nd by Plummer's left hand's heel, 3rd by Fitzmorris bumping the ball over) As there were no two parts (no fingers or other hand) of her body involved and clearly it did not contact the heel successively, it is not a double contact.)
How do the officials, well after their ruling of the point for Stanford, change their call? They didn't make the call during the play. Did they somehow review it by memory and overrule themselves? I don't see that in the rules.
I could see why Coach Hambly didn't contest a call late in the first set when they were down big. But I don't see why he wasn't (at least on the broadcast) arguing the coach's protest & the changed call were not allowed by the rules.
As a result, there were two first-to-15 timeouts in a single game (but the TV didn't take advantage of it -- no commercials were run in the 2nd timeout).
HUH? Whether a touch is a double contact or not is not listed as something that can be challenged under the Challenge Review System. (And, indeed, a replay of the broadcast shows there was NOT a double contact. The Oregon coach got upset after the ball went off the heel of Plummer's left hand and picked up spin. (First contact was by the back of McClure's hand, 2nd by Plummer's left hand's heel, 3rd by Fitzmorris bumping the ball over) As there were no two parts (no fingers or other hand) of her body involved and clearly it did not contact the heel successively, it is not a double contact.)
How do the officials, well after their ruling of the point for Stanford, change their call? They didn't make the call during the play. Did they somehow review it by memory and overrule themselves? I don't see that in the rules.
I could see why Coach Hambly didn't contest a call late in the first set when they were down big. But I don't see why he wasn't (at least on the broadcast) arguing the coach's protest & the changed call were not allowed by the rules.
As a result, there were two first-to-15 timeouts in a single game (but the TV didn't take advantage of it -- no commercials were run in the 2nd timeout).