The Darien Times

Huge oops at states: Data input error ‘discovery’ unseats DHS

Written by Steven Buono
Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:15 PM

Girls Indoor Track

Darien girls indoor track’s 1.5 point championship victory over second place Windsor was overturned by the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference on Wednesday.

The Wave slips to second place due to a “data input error” that put previously ruled runner-up Windsor on top instead.

The following release was sent out by the CIAC notifying teams and the press of the change.

“During the seeding of the state open it was discovered that a data input error had caused incorrect results to be distributed at Monday's Class L Championship Meet and subsequently be posted on the CIAC website.

A Darien girls pole vaulter was listed in a four-way tie for third, which would have been worth 3.5 points for the team.

During the seeding for the open it was determined the vaulter should actually have been listed in 7th place due to the number of misses tiebreaker.

A subsequent review of the official scoresheet from the judges showed this was in fact the case, but that the data had been incorrectly transferred to the scoring system.

The girls pole vault results and the team scores for the meet have been corrected.

As a result of the correction, Windsor High School is now correctly reflected as the champion with 71 points and Darien High School the runner-up with 70 points."

The corrected results are on the CIAC web site at http://www.casciac.org/it12l.shtml.

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