NFHS Innings/Time Limit

[Guest NFHS]

If a game is in a NFHS league with a time limit, and the time limit is reached before enough innings, would it be correct that the time limit would supersede the inning rule?

[VAUmp]

The league would dictate that.  Check with the league.  There is no provision in FED rules that provide guidelines for a time nor inning limit.

[ElkOil]

We allow the coaches to set a time limit, and most want to, especially if their game is followed by another. When the time limit is reached, no new inning can begin, regardless of how many innings have been played. In some lop-sided affairs, we've reached the two-hour limit after just two innings.

[Guest]

Leagues that play by 6/7innings or timit limits are normally not actually high school teams. Such as travel sports in north texas use to play by NFHS. Now they play by MLB or OBR. 

In texas, that i know of, most tournament games 9th, JV, and Varsity will play timit limit or innings, which ever comes first. During the season, Freshman and JV play 7innings or timit limit, sometimes even drop dead, depending if Varsity game is to play after them. Also during the season, all varsity games go 7 innings unless 10 after 5.

[maven]

You're not playing FED rules, you're playing league rules, which incorporate FED. Your league has chosen to replace FED's game ending rules with its own. So if your league rules dictate that a game is ended by time limit, then it is ended.

[Mudisfun]

Our HS games JV and under incorporate a no new inning after 2:30. Varsity has no restrictions on time other than weather/light failure/darkness.

The schools look at JV and under as 'scrimmage/learning' games that do not matter in the ultimate scheme of things even though the coaches and players definitely would not agree with that interpretation.  I have had JV games that one coach concedes at the 5th inning mark just due to lack of any further pitching... which made me beg the question of where the pitching was the other 4 innings?

 

 

[Umpirechick1]

We have a lot of leagues in our area that based on NFHS rules but have time limits. There are also a lot of Grand Slam tourneys (Fed rules).  Both have time limits and that always supersedes number of innings.  Otherwise, what's the point of a time limit?