MHSAA makes change to girls D1 cross country championship results

After review of official footage, the Michigan High School Athletic Association is changing individual results from the Division 1 lower peninsula girls cross country championship results from Saturday. A reader reached out to MLive.com via email on Sunday morning claiming Clarkston senior runner Mia Patria placed sixth in the race, instead of her seventh-place listing in the MHSAA results.

The MHSAA listed Novi junior Elizabeth Babcock as the sixth-place finisher in its official results with a time of 18:10.7 while Patria was listed seventh with a time of 18:12.5 for the 5-kilometer race.

The reader who emailed MLive.com referenced finish line video produced by MLive showing Patria finishing sixth and Babcock finishing seventh. The video can be seen below. Patria wears number 1147 and Babcock wears number 1990.

MLive reported the discrepancy to the MHSAA on Sunday and Cody Inglis produced a statement mentioning the MHSAA will correct the results “if official race video evidence proves it to be true which is the process within the first 48 hours and within the rules for clerical errors.”

In a letter from Inglis to Clarkston and a parent of Patria obtained by MLive on Monday morning, the MHSAA confirmed the error in its results.

“We obviously want to make sure things are correct and that student-athletes receive the correct place and time in the biggest race of the season," Inglis said in the letter. "We are happy with the fact that the system of timing, chips and video allow us multiple backups to ensure that this will happen. In your daughter’s case, the timer was able to go back to official race video and make sure that places were correct for kids, through the top 100 for each race immediately after the race. Obviously there was a mistake made and official race video confirmed this fact.”

John Johnson, the MHSAA director of broadcast properties, wrote in an email to MLive the MHSAA will “put everything in motion to make sure that the results online reflect the change.”

Patria’s time and place have been adjusted in the official athletic.net results, showing her in sixth with a time of 18:10.1. Babcock is moved to seventh and her time remains unchanged.

Although Clarkston finished in 11th place, one point behind Temperance Bedford, the change should not affect the team scoring because Babcock was competing as an individual and not part of a full team, meaning her original placement ahead of Patria was not factored into the team scoring.

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