Last night this situation came up:
Player A broke and didn't sink any balls. Player B called a high ball, and sank it but in the process knocked the 8-ball into another pocket.
Since the high ball wasn't pocketed on a legal shot we finally decided that the score should be 10-0 because Player A would have still had an open table and could have picked high if the game had continued. Some of the players felt that the score should have been 10-1 because Player B sank a ball.
I couldn't find this situation in the old BCA rule book I had in my case.
Opinions?
Player A broke and didn't sink any balls. Player B called a high ball, and sank it but in the process knocked the 8-ball into another pocket.
Since the high ball wasn't pocketed on a legal shot we finally decided that the score should be 10-0 because Player A would have still had an open table and could have picked high if the game had continued. Some of the players felt that the score should have been 10-1 because Player B sank a ball.
I couldn't find this situation in the old BCA rule book I had in my case.
Opinions?