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Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Ind. Courts - More on "IHSAA appealing Jasmine Watson ruling"
Updating this story from Jan. 24th, and other ILB entries, the AP is reporting this afternoon:
BLOOMINGTON | Faced with a lawsuit it sees little chance winning, the Indiana High School Athletic Association has ruled baseball and softball are not comparable sports and that girls may now try out for their school's baseball team.Under IHSAA rules, girls may participate on boys' teams in baseball, basketball, football, soccer and wrestling when a comparable girls program does not exist at the school. But following the lawsuit filed against the IHSAA in November on behalf of a Bloomington South freshman, the association's board recently voted 18-9 to let girls try out for baseball even if their school has a softball team.
IHSAA Commissioner Blake Ress said he thought the rule was correct as it was, but he will not fight the change.
"Our odds are against us winning it in court," Ress told The Herald Times. "It's not impossible, but as we researched it, more states are doing this and when there have been court issues, more often they said they could (play) than they couldn't."
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 3, 2009 03:47 PM
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