Walking behind the swim meet officials, Southern Regional girls swimming head coach Bill Entrikin emerged from an office inside the St. Francis Aquatic Center and entered the pool area. Smiling, he gave a thumbs-up to his squad tensely waiting alongside the pool. Then came an eruption of happy emotion.
The Rams had just scored the school program’s first state tournament victory, and they accomplished the feat in a most bizarre way – via the meet “power point” criteria devised as a tiebreaker by…
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