Hoover High Must Forfeit Baseball Games for Using Ineligible Player

Hoover High School will have to forfeit an undetermined number of baseball games this season because it used an ineligible player, according to Wayne DeBate, the secondary athletics manager for San Diego city schools.

Hoover, which lost, 7-2, to USDHS Tuesday in the first round of the section 2-A playoffs, had finished the year 15-12-1. Hoover Coach Chuck Giles said he was not sure how many games the player had participated in, but believed it was more than 10.

The ineligible player lived outside Hoover’s boundaries and did not have a special attendance permit, required by the City Conference for athletic participation. He had, however, a permit to attended Wilson Junior High (in Hoover’s boundaries) as an eighth grader, but was unaware that he needed a new one to attend Hoover, DeBate said..

Hoover was permitted to continue in the playoffs after a majority vote by the San Diego Section Baseball Advisory Committee. Section Commissioner Kendall Webb said no CIF rules were violated.