When score is too high for scoreboard to record

American Samoa lost a soccer game 31-0 to Australia.

Troy State’s basketball scoreboard only went up to 199 back in 1992. When they played against DeVry Institute of Atlanta, that became a problem. When Troy State hit 200, the scoreboard operator first displayed their score as 100 and starting using the player/foul indicator (two digits for the player, one for the number of fouls committed) to keep track of the score. At the next stoppage of play, however, the officials cleared out the player/foul indicator and just used the last two digits of Troy’s score in the normal place (09 by then). The final score was 258-141. The whole game is on YouTube. This link shows the score getting “corrected” at 209-113; this link shows the overtaxed scoreboard at the end displaying 58 for Troy State’s score.

As OldGuy mentioned, it’s not super-unusual in baseball with old/cheap scoreboards that display line scores. Vanderbilt scored 10 in the fifth inning of their regional final against Radford a couple of days ago; the line score showed 0.