[chartrusepengui]

Had the same situation here. Juco team comes in. School has "hired" work study students to do the book. Kid seems knowledgeable etc. At half when we came back out, the away coach approached. (I knew him from some camps when I had been coaching) He asked to speak with me. He asked if I had called a foul on his #15. I looked, and remembered the kid and foul because he was the only one wearing a headband on that team. I told him I did. He said that the "official" book didn't have any fouls on his #15 but his best player had 4. Also said that another player that should have had a foul didn't show it in the book - but admitted that his best player did have 3.

I told him that while I understood his frustration - and that I knew that I had called a foul on his #15 - I didn't know where they might have placed that foul. (like on his best player) Since I didn't have direct knowledge about where they placed it about the only thing I could do is to put a foul in the book for his #15 but I could not remove any from anyone else as I had no direct knowledge that the official scorekeeper had done anything wrong except not entering the foul for #15. He was not happy with the situation - but understood the delema of the officials. He was very gracious with us.

The second half - we went right to the table when reporting fouls to make sure they were placed in book correctly. Following the game we approached the AD and suggested that he might want to think about a different scorekeeper and explained the situation. The coach said that when fouls were reported, his guy verbally asked scorekeeper "15 - right?" but never actaully looked in the official book. Tough situation - but without direct knowledge nothing an official can do.