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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2016
NFHS introduces new high school baseball rules
Each NFHS member state
association will be required to
develop its own pitching
restriction policy based on the
number of pitches thrown dur-
ing a game to afford pitchers a
required rest period between
pitching appearances.
“We’re pleased that the rules
committee worked in conjunc-
tion with the NFHS Sports
Medicine Advisory Committee
to find an acceptable and rea-
sonable modification to this
rule in order to emphasis the
risk that occurs when pitchers
overuse their throwing arm,”
E UGENE E MERALDS
EUGENE — The Eugene
Emeralds are back in town
starting Monday, July 18, for a
rematch against the Hillsboro
Hops.
After suffering their first
series loss of the season against
the Hops earlier this week, the
Emeralds are hoping to win the
series and cement their lead in
said Elliot Hopkins, NFHS
director of sports and student
services and staff liaison for
baseball.
The
Baseball
Rules
Committee also revised Rule 2-
32-2 regarding sliding into
home plate.
The revised language states:
“At home plate, it is permissi-
ble for the slider’s momentum
to carry him through the plate
in the baseline extended.”
The committee altered this
rule since the physical design
of home plate makes it difficult
for a runner to break momen-
tum on a slide, as opposed to
the other three bases, which are
elevated.
The committee also revised
Rule 3-3-1, which states the
umpire has the ability to give
three warnings to a coach or
player before he or she is
removed from the game.
“Officials now have the
opportunity to provide a tiered
warning system for coaches or
players,” Hopkins said. “It pro-
vides the coaches or players
with a teachable moment to
change their unsportsmanlike
behavior in order to stay in the
game.”
A new article 6 was added to
Rule 8-3 to provide a rules ref-
erence for an existing ruling in
the Baseball Case Book. The
new article reads: “When a
plate umpire hinders, impedes
or prevents a catcher’s throw
attempting to prevent a stolen
base or retire a runner on a
pickoff play, if an out is not
made at the end of the catcher’s
initial throw, the ball shall be
dead and all runners shall
return to the bases occupied at
the time of the interference.”
The rules committee also
MID - WEEK SERIES TO BENEFIT
the South Division of the
Northwest League.
To help with the “Good
Karma” surrounding the Ems’
hot streak, the series will start
with the third “Good Karma
Monday” of the season.
This name-your-ticket-price
promotion allows fans to select
the price they pay for the ticket,
with 50 percent of the ticket
price being donated to Special
Olympics.
Special Olympics provides
year-round sports training and
athletic competitions in a vari-
ety of Olympic-type sports for
children, youth and adults liv-
ing with intellectual disabili-
ties.
Good Karma Mondays are
presented
by
Northwest
Community Credit Union.
Fans can come to PK Park
the following day for the first
Hoppy Tuesday of the summer.
During the game, fans age 21
and older can enjoy discounted
craft beers from local favorite,
Ninkasi, while enjoying the
approved an addition to Rule 8-
4-2, which states that any run-
ner is out when he is physically
assisted by a coach.
This rule change supports a
revision in Rule 3-2-2 Penalty,
which states that the runner
shall be called out immediately
when he is physically assisted
by a coach.
A complete listing of the
baseball rules changes will be
available on the NFHS website
at www.nfhs.org.
Click on “Activities &
Sports” at the top of the home
page, and select “Baseball.”
S PECIAL O LYMPICS
game.
Kids will definitely want to
be at PK Park on Wednesday,
July 20, to help celebrate the
birthday of the Ems’ green-bear
mascot, Sluggo.
Come join Sluggo and his
mascot friends as they celebrate
his seventh birthday and watch
the final game of the series
against the Hillsboro Hops.
Mascots from the Hops, the
Trailblazers, the Medford
Rogues and Winterhawks will
all be attending.
Fans will get a rare chance to
see all of their favorite Oregon-
based mascots in one place for
a night of baseball.
Sign up for matsutake mushroom permits to begin Aug. 16
CORVALLIS — Annual per-
mits for matsutake mushrooms
go on sale from 9 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16, at the
Oregon
Dunes
National
Recreation Area office, 855
Highway 101, in Reedsport.
Anyone gathering matsutake
mushrooms within the Siuslaw
National Forest for the purpose
of selling must carry a commer-
cial-use permit while picking.
One hundred permits will be
available for sale at $250 a per-
mit. There will be one permit
issued per person and permits
will be sold on a first-come,
first-served basis.
To purchase a permit, the fol-
lowing information must be
provided:
Valid identification card
issued by a state or U.S. federal
government
Vehicle make, model and
license plate number
Permits can be purchased
using cash, check or credit
card.
After Aug. 16, unsold per-
mits can be purchased out of
the Siuslaw National Forest
headquarters in Corvallis, the
Central Coast Ranger Station in
Waldport and the ODNRA
office in Reedsport.
No permits are needed if
gathering matsutakes for per-
sonal use. Personal use restric-
tions are six matsutakes per
person a day, and the mush-
room must be cut in half
length-wise immediately upon
harvesting to remove its com-
mercial value.
Be aware that similarly look-
ing poisonous mushrooms exist
in the same area as matsutakes.
Do not disturb topsoil when
searching for matsutakes by
digging or raking.
Upon harvesting a matsu-
take, return soil or debris
attached to the stem back into
the cavity created by the
removed mushroom and cover
the hole.
For more information, con-
tact the Oregon Dunes NRA
office at 541-271-6000.
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CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. —
High school baseball rules will
now require a pitching restric-
tion policy based on the num-
ber of pitches thrown in a
game.
The revised pitching policy
in Rule 6-2-6 was one of six
rules changes approved by the
National Federation of State
High School Associations
(NFHS)
Baseball
Rules
Committee at its June 5-7 meet-
ing in Indianapolis.
The rules changes were sub-
sequently approved by the
NFHS Board of Directors.