PIAA Bat Rules

All non-wood bats in high school this year must meet BBCOR. No ifs, ands, or buts.

If BR is following Fed's lead then all non wood has to be BBCOR. BESR is now a thing of the past.

Rosko,
if your sons league is using NFHS/PIAA rules, then your sons bat is illegal....it must be BBCOR certified and BBCOR marked to be legal....or it must be wood.....

Dont mistake a bat description for being the same as the bat certification....there can be legal composite bats ....but only if it is BBCOR certified and marked....

NO BESR only marked bat is legal for play under PIAA/NFHS rules...

I played and initially started coaching when bats were wood and no such discussion existed about legal and illegal. So if something is illegal what is the consequences for using an illegal bat?

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Originally posted by Will:
I played and initially started coaching when bats were wood and no such discussion existed about legal and illegal. So if something is illegal what is the consequences for using an illegal bat?

Assuming FED:

On any offense, the batter is out.
On the first offense, the head coach is restricted. On any subsequent offense, the head coach (or his replacement) is ejected.

Also to clarify for the purpose of the rule, a batter is determined to have used an illegal bat when he enters the batters box with the illegal bat

he does not have to swing, hit or take a pitch...... just being in the box is enough...

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the head coach is restricted.

In my day I was tossed from a game or 2 but restricted?

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Originally posted by Will:
In my day I was tossed from a game or 2 but restricted?

Fed's way of keeping the coach on the bench. In a lot of places (generally lower-level games), the head coach may be the only coach at the game for his team. If he's ejected, he has to leave the field; with no adult, the game is forfeited.

A "restriction" places him on the dugout bench. He can't leave the bench for any reason (except to tend to an injured player), and the game goes on. Any peep from him and he's ejected.

Missouri (and I assume many others) still wants these restrictions to be reported to the state, so I can see the penalties afterward (fines and/or suspensions) being assessed the same as an actual ejection.