Not wanting to make a mountain out of a molehill here, but was looking for some learned answers...
When as a visitor at a field recently, there was no visitors bullpen to warm up in, just flat ground with dirt, similar to a softball field. The home team had a well groomed mound in their bullpen. When our pitcher asked the opposing head coach if there was a mound he could warm up on also, the coach laughed at him and said "It's that dirt thing with the piece of rubber in it next to your dugout." When we had dinner that night with our sons college coach who had come in to see him play, he told us that in the NCAA, the visitor can request to use the home teams bullpen for the game. He says it doesn't often happen, but the rule is in place to keep the home team from having two different standards of facilities for home and visitors.
Is there any such provision in the IHSA and should there be?
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