![]() ![]() Note 1: Video and communication equipment used to transmit information between coaches, coaches and players, scouts or other team personnel shall not be allowed for intercollegiate competition. Monitors for viewing live or taped video during a game are prohibited from the dugout or bench area, and all adjacent areas (i.e., athletic training rooms, locker rooms, etc.).” Filming from beyond this area toward the outfield or any point beyond the outfield fence or wall is not permitted – with the exception of television cameras for the broadcast of a game, including internet broadcasts and video boards. The use of manned video cameras is restricted to the area behind home plate – defined as that area from the outfield cutout behind first base to the outfield cutout behind third base. A team may film or videotape its own game but not games involving other teams. ![]() Any information shall not be transmitted to the playing field or to team personnel. Games and individuals shall not be videotaped from the team’s dugout. “Non-uniformed team personnel may sit in the stands for the purpose of charting pitches, using radar guns, or videotaping a contest. Valli questions helmets 49:45 into the video. The umpire did, finding earpieces in the helmets of both the runner on second base, and the one on first.Ītlantic Cape-RCGC Baseball: Watch the baseball game in question. In 30 years, I’ve never asked an umpire to check a helmet, but I’m out here now, and I’m telling you now you’re going to find ear pieces in these helmets, and he goes OK, let’s check.” … He’s like how do you know? I explained our first baseman has been hearing this now and we just confirmed it the second time these guys got on base. “The reaction was I went out and said they have headsets in their helmets, and he seemed surprised. “(He was) as surprised as I was,” Valli said of the umpire. There was one out in the bottom of the third inning. That’s when Valli went to the umpire and asked him to check two Atlantic Cape helmets. Once those guys got on, he’s saying I hear it. So, second time up, those same guys got on, and he was confirming with me the whole time. For me, I wasn’t going to go right up there in the first inning. I didn’t not believe him, but for that sophisticated of cheating, I just didn’t think they would do it. He never would’ve thought about a communication device though until his first baseman, Felix Diaz, told him he could hear a voice coming out of a player’s helmet following the opening inning. In the first game of the April 22 doubleheader, Valli felt Atlantic Cape was making some aggressive swings on tough pitches and was getting excellent reads on the basepaths too. “We didn’t think there was anything there. ![]() However, “We kind of dismissed it,” Valli added. “He had a feeling they were getting really good swings on pitches that he thought were good pitches,” Roadrunners head coach Rob Valli said. Suspicions first arose for Rowan College during the first game of the three-game series on April 21.įreshman pitcher Ethan Dodd approached his coaches after the game wondering if he had been tipping pitches during an 11-6 victory. How were the communication devices found? “After the situation with the game, he was suspended pending the outcome of the NJCAA Region 19 review, and at that time, we had asked for him to resign,” Atlantic Cape Chief Marketing Officer Laura Batchelor said. Atlantic Cape Community College baseball coach Rodney Velardi resigned after 13 years leading the program on May 4, almost two weeks after the Buccaneers were found to have illegal communication devices in two of their players’ batting helmets during an 11-4 loss to Rowan College Gloucester County on April 22. ![]()
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