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IHSAA baseball: Umpire shortage is cancelling games

Greg Wright, 52, has been umpiring since 1998 and consistently at the high school level since 2008. He said his tactic  in dealing with complaints is to take the comments from fans as “comic relief” and not engage in any back and forth. He also understands that coaches have a rooting interest and “are going to fight for their kids.” “Their job may be on the line if they fail,” Wright said of coaches. “But when younger kids start out and people start yelling at them, whether it is fans or coaches, they don’t know how to deal with somebody right in their face. With fans, you have to have the personality that you find it funny. A lot of them don’t know what they are talking about. But for a younger umpire, once they get that they say, ‘You know what, this isn’t for me.’ Then they get out of it. Most of us doing it are 40-plus and there are quite a few who are 60-plus. We need more people to get involved. Without adult participation, the kids don’t play. The w

NFHS, WIAA make plea for more officials, better fan behavior at games

The National Federation of State High School Associations, or NFHS, is sending out a nationwide plea for more officials for high school sports and calling for better fan behavior at events. The executive director of the NFHS cited a national shortage of officials that “borders on catastrophic in some sports,” per the official column posted on the NFHS website. WIAA executive director Dave Anderson also contributed to the column. The column cites data from the National Association of Sports Officials showing referee registration across the U.S. is down 30 percent. Jim Dolesy of the Coulee Region Officials Association says part of that is due to the pandemic forcing older officials to opt out for health concerns, but they won’t necessarily come back to officiating when things get back to normal.

High school game officials in short supply this spring

High school game officials in short supply this spring From softball and baseball to lacrosse, organizers are concerned about whether they ll have enough umpires and referees to handle especially busy days on the schedule. Share Game official Dave Berrang makes a call during a preseason girls’ lacrosse scrimmage between Windham and Biddeford this month. Typically, there are 70 to 80 girls’ lacrosse officials available for high school games in Maine. This spring, there are 62. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer Dick Goan has assigned umpires for high school and middle school softball games in southern Maine for the past 30 years. As recently as 2017, he had a pool of 90 umpires to work with. This spring, it’s down to 56 – with just one new recruit.

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