Warwick students and teams racked up the medals and awards Sunday in the 23rd annual Rhode Island Academic Decathlon held at the Knight Campus of CCRI.

But, as it was learned immediately following the awards ceremony, the outcome of the tight competition could change. The issue came to light following the event when student score sheets were provided coaches. Some of those sheets showed no score for students who had participated in the essay portion of the contest.

It could not be immediately determined whether the scores had been tallied as part of the team final but omitted from the totals given coaches. If that were the case, the results would not change.

In order to resolve the issue, Pat Lehnertz, executive director of the decathlon, said scores would be tallied a second time.

Lehnertz said some individual medals could change and there is an outside chance that could affect overall team rankings. She expects to have this accomplished by the end of the week.

As it is, Warwick schools fared well in the event.

Bishop Hendricken High School placed second just behind Wheeler School of Providence. Warwick Veterans, which fielded two teams, placed sixth and Pilgrim placed 11th. Rocky Hill School placed in the middle of the pack just ahead of Toll Gate.

In the Super Quiz, which focused on the European Renaissance, Pilgrim High School placed second, a mere five points behind St. George's School of Newport with 3,065 points. In third place was Veterans High.

Individuals also shined in the daylong competition. In the Super Quiz, Hendricken's Derek Katznelson won a bronze in the honors division while William Dilauro of Vets won a gold and Brice Cantrell of Hendricken and Veronica Flaherty of Vets tied for silver in the scholastic division. In the varsity division, Kayla Flynn of Vets won a gold and Phillip Scavitti a bronze in Super Quiz.

Overall top-scoring students include Christopher Gage of Hendricken and Eric Abbott of Vets, who placed first and second respectively in the honors division. William Dilauro placed first as the overall top-ranking student in the scholastic division.

Other Warwick medal winners in language and literature were: Derek Katznelson, Hendricken, gold; Amudha Panneerselvan, Pilgrim, silver and Casandra Mullins, Pilgrim, silver in the honors division and Zhou Yiwan, Rocky Hill in the varsity division.

In music: Christopher Gage, Hendricken, gold in honors; William Dilauro, Vets, gold and Veronica Flaherty, Vets, silver in the scholastic division.

In science: Katherine Richard, Toll Gate, gold in the honors division and William Dilauro, Vets, gold in scholastic division.

In art: Anisha Gandhi, Toll Gate, bronze; Christopher Gage, Hendricken, silver; Anthony Dilauro, Vets, bronze and Derek Katznelson, Hendricken, gold in the honors division; William Dilauro, Vets, gold and Derek Jenkins, Hendricken, gold in the scholastic division and Kayla Flynn, Vets, silver in the varsity division.

In mathematics: William Shore, Rocky Hill, gold; Eric Abbott, Vets, bronze and David Palms, Hendricken, bronze in the honors division; and Catrina Nashed, Vets and Robert Elias, Hendricken, bronze in the varsity division.

Economics: William Shore, Rocky Hill, gold in the honors division; and Derek Jenkins, Hendricken, silver in the scholastic division.

Essay: Zachary Galkin of Rocky Hill, gold in the varsity division.

Speech: Christopher Gage, Hendricken, silver and Anisha Gandhi, bronze in the honors division and Robert Elias, Hendricken, gold in the varsity division.

Interview: Hyerim Shin, Rocky Hill, gold in the honors division and Tyler DiMicco, gold and Ian Cameron, silver, both of Rocky Hill, in the scholastic division.

Top-scoring Warwick students from their respective teams are: Christopher Gage, Hendricken; William Dilauro, Vets Team I; Lauren Kasparian, Pilgrim; William Shore, Rocky Hill; Vinodh Mechery, Toll Gate and Veronica Flaherty, Vets Team II.

A video of the Super Quiz and awards presentation will air Saturday, March 11 at 3 p.m. and Saturday, March 18th at 3 p.m. on the Statewide Interconnect C Channel 15. Cox Communications taped the program as a public service.