Yeah, their shorthand in the scorebook, but especially for the complicated plays like runner on first makes it to second on a stolen base but throw from catcher is wild and goes into center field while runner keeps going and eventually gets called out at home for going too far outside the basepath while the catcher tried to tag her out. Rare things that seem to happen frequently on my daughter's team and makes me constantly ask the coach..."how would I record that?" LOL!Oh, OK. You're not asking so much ''was that a hit or error?" as much as you're asking to see how college scorers are using 'shorthand' in the scorebooks. There are many ways to do it, as you may know, and there may or may not be a standard way to score even within a league or conference.
I imagine most college teams are using some software like Game Changer where they're given choices of hit, error, etc., and it's automated. And the play-by-play that I've given links for are probably automated output. Scorekeeper isn't using pencil and paper, just clicking buttons on a laptop.