Fair enough, but even absent the VA/FED rules which are very clear, I still think blocking the plate--especially BEFORE the ball arrives--in HS baseball should generally be discouraged in an era when even MLB had seriously curbed home plate collisions. At the end of the day, given the VA/FED rules, the umpire blew the call. That said, I don't think it was an egregious blown call, but it was definitely not the right call. Oh well.