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•  Krogstrand said athletes have joined teams late after getting instruction at gymnastics clubs or a wrestling academy.
•  The rule lists a variety of exceptions for legitimate transfers.
•  The board members took on a wide array of rules in a variety of sports. Their actions ranged from fine-tuning rules to making major changes. Some of those actions included…
•  …failing to make a recommendation on a basketball mercy rules that the SDHSAA staff favored.
•  The proposed rule said that the game clock should be kept running in the fourth quarter of a game if a team was behind by 30 points.
•  "There's not really much of an educational process that goes on when a team is getting beat by 30," Auch said.
•  Board members expressed the opinion that playing in a blowout was still valuable playing time.
•  "It's taking away time from kids that might not otherwise get in there," said board member Eldon Marshall of White River.
•  Making the game go faster wasn't fair to the players according to board member Todd Trask of Wall.
•  "A lot of these schools travel, in our end of the state, a long ways to play," Trask said.
•  The rule failed when board members refused to make a motion for its passage.
•  …approved a seven quarter rule for basketball. The previous rule allowed players no more than six quarters of basketball in a day.
•  The rational for the rule was that it would allow smaller to schools to field a full complement of varsity, junior varsity and C teams.
•  "I'm in favor of it to get more kids involved," said board member Rick Weber of Flandreau.
•  SDHSAA Executive Director Wayne Carney made a predication about the future of basketball: "Somewhere down the road there will be an eight quarter rule."
•  He said the complaints he gets from parents concern their child not getting to play while another, usually younger, player competes for the entire six quarters.
•  "If those kids don't get the opportunity to play there, they won't play in high school," Carney said.
•  The rule changed passed 5-1 with the dissenting vote coming from board chairman Darren Paulson of Rapid City.
•  …approved pushing back the state golf tournament to ensure better weather for players.
•  Krogstrand said fall and spring golf programs weren't equal because spring golf

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