HIGH SCHOOL GIRL OUTSCORES KOBE!

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113!
Rutgers signee breaks Miller's HS girls scoring record
Posted: Wednesday February 1, 2006 7:33PM; Updated: Thursday February 2, 2006 12:53AM

NEW YORK (AP) -- Hey Kobe, top this.

Epiphanny Prince of Murry Bergtraum High School scored 113 points in a game Wednesday, breaking a national prep record previously held by Hall of Famer Cheryl Miller.

Prince, a 5-foot-9 senior guard, led her team to a 137-32 victory over Brandeis High School.

"After I scored 29 points in the first quarter, I didn't think much of it," Prince told The Associated Press in a phone interview late Wednesday night. "After I had 58 points at the half, and especially after having in the 80s after the third quarter, I just decided to go for it."

Prince had 58 points at halftime for the Lady Blazers, ranked No. 2 in the nation by USA Today.

"At the half, we thought she had a chance to break the record so we just let her go," coach Ed Grezinsky said.

Miller scored 105 points for Riverside Poly in California against Riverside Norte Vista in 1982. She went on to become an All-American at USC.

"It's an amazing thing when an individual does that," said Cavaliers star LeBron James, who was told about Prince's performance Wednesday night after Cleveland beat New Jersey. "I don't know who she is, but maybe we'll see her in the WNBA. For that matter, the NBA."

Two-time WNBA MVP Lisa Leslie scored 101 points in a half for Morningside High School in Inglewood, Calif., against South Torrance in 1990. South Torrance refused to play the second half.

Prince, one of the nation's top high school players, is headed to Rutgers next season. Her previous high this season was 51 points.

"It was efficient," Prince said. "It wasn't like I missed a whole bunch of shots. That's what made it even better."

The boys' high school record is 135 points set by Danny Heater of Burnsville High School in West Virginia in 1960, according to the National High School Sports Record Book on the National Federation of State High School Association's Web site.

In his stunning 81-point game last month, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant was 28-of-46 from the floor against the Toronto Raptors.

The NBA record is 100 points in a game by Wilt Chamberlain in 1962.


- kobe this!

CardCoreCollector

Two-time WNBA MVP Lisa Leslie scored 101 points in a half for Morningside High School in Inglewood, Calif., against South Torrance in 1990. South Torrance refused to play the second half.

Now thats just funny lol

dirtmonkey

<< <i>Two-time WNBA MVP Lisa Leslie scored 101 points in a half for Morningside High School in Inglewood, Calif., against South Torrance in 1990. South Torrance refused to play the second half.

Now thats just funny lol >>




Yeah, I remember the story after the game happened. She had all but 1 of her teams points in the first half and they were winning by like 80.
The other team apparently sneaked out the back locker room doors. The coach for the other team said that they (Leslie and her team) were trying to embarrass his team and he would have none of it. Well I think that quitting a game is more embarrassing than giving up 200 points to one player IMO. Getting beat badly just means you suck as a team. Quitting means you suck as a person too.

RANDYMOSS84

Dajuan Wagner scored 100 in a MALE high school game. Its not that hard when your much more talent, wagner is not even in the nba anymore. Some kid in our league dropped 78 of his teams 84 on us but they still lost.

ctsoxfan

Glad to see Kobe setting such a great example for our young basketball players.

tkd7

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Now thats just funny lol >>




Yeah, I remember the story after the game happened. She had all but 1 of her teams points in the first half and they were winning by like 80.
The other team apparently sneaked out the back locker room doors. The coach for the other team said that they (Leslie and her team) were trying to embarrass his team and he would have none of it. Well I think that quitting a game is more embarrassing than giving up 200 points to one player IMO. Getting beat badly just means you suck as a team. Quitting means you suck as a person too. >>



I've spent all evening trying to figure out what good comes from a girls high school basketball team getting beat by over 100 points.

JrMacdaddy

<< <i>I've spent all evening trying to figure out what good comes from a girls high school basketball team getting beat by over 100 points. >>



Not a thing

A761506

I think the coach should be suspended a couple games for poor judgment... there is absolutely no reason to tell your best player, in such a lop-sided game, to run up the score and go for the record when the other team has literally stopped playing any form of defense what-so-ever. It is completely demoralizing to the other team, totally irresponsible & classless. This girl is one of the top girls high school basketball players in the country playing against a team she could beat single-handedly. What exactly did she really accomplish? That she could make 50 layups, grabbing the rebounds on the ones she missed and putting them right back up?

dirtmonkey

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<< <i>Two-time WNBA MVP Lisa Leslie scored 101 points in a half for Morningside High School in Inglewood, Calif., against South Torrance in 1990. South Torrance refused to play the second half.

Now thats just funny lol >>




Yeah, I remember the story after the game happened. She had all but 1 of her teams points in the first half and they were winning by like 80.
The other team apparently sneaked out the back locker room doors. The coach for the other team said that they (Leslie and her team) were trying to embarrass his team and he would have none of it. Well I think that quitting a game is more embarrassing than giving up 200 points to one player IMO. Getting beat badly just means you suck as a team. Quitting means you suck as a person too. >>



I've spent all evening trying to figure out what good comes from a girls high school basketball team getting beat by over 100 points. >>




There's nothing good about it at all, but quitting is not the answer this coach should have offered as an option to his team. That teaches them nothing good about life. He should have told them to go out and do the best they could to stop her and try to outscore them in the second half. He should have tried to do anything he could to make them want to try to improve as a team. Hell, tell them they are using the second half as a practice and they get to skip their next one in turn. Sports is supposed to be about having fun, team unity and sportsmanship. In the end, one team (generally) always has to lose. Whether it be by 1 point or 100, a loss is a loss. All teams cannot be equally as good. If the coach allows his team to quit, at what point do they decide to quit in the next game?

Further, sure one would hope a team felt compassion enough to lay of when beating another team so badly but that's not the world we really live in. It's all about records and numbers. You hate to see your team losing badly, but most of us are cheering up a storm when are team is dominating another, hoping that they continue to rack the points up. Further, why tell a player that they are too good for the opposition and they need to stop playing as hard. That's not why they practice so hard, to become better than others and then in turn not to be allowed to play up to their potential.

I remember a high school football game we had where we were winning 54-0 at the half. Our coaches didn't tell us to stop playing hard, he just put us all in at different positions that we were used to and we ran plays we never had. We ended up winning 76-0 and the other teams coach thanked each of us for not running it up to 100. The problem in my eyes at the time is that he was saying that out loud, instead of congratulating his team for "slowing us down" in the second half. He could of said something to make them feel some small sense of accomplishment instead of making them feel worse by saying we granted them mercy. He could have told them that they should have been proud for not quitting and for fighting as hard as they could to improve upon their first half.

theczar

this is high school folks. in many parts of the country high school has not been polluted and ruined like D1 basketball. the disparity between talent can be enormous and common sense should still prevail. even in college you don't see duke playing some horrendous team and leaving their starters in for 40 minutes.

in missouri teams qualify for the state tournament in football in districts. there are 64 teams in the top class and they are in 16 districts of 4.
at the end of the season each district plays a round-robin of three games. some districts are power-houses some are weak. they are set up by geography, not any sort of rankings.

a few years ago a district of four had two stud teams and two bottom feeders. whoever won the game between the studs would certainly move on as head-head was the tiebreaker so even an upset to the winner of the top teams' game would still allow them to move on.

it so happened that the best two teams met in game 1. the loser of that game went out the next week to a 93-0 win, playing his starters in the fourth quarter and still throwing long passes. with one game to go in the season (albeit a meaningless one) the 93-0 winning coach was fired. that school board was embarrassed by him running up the score on a clearly weaker team.

this coach should be fired too.

DirtyHarry

Let's put them together in a one-on-one contest. Or, maybe not!!! Who knows what may happen.

tkd7

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<< <i>Two-time WNBA MVP Lisa Leslie scored 101 points in a half for Morningside High School in Inglewood, Calif., against South Torrance in 1990. South Torrance refused to play the second half.

Now thats just funny lol >>




Yeah, I remember the story after the game happened. She had all but 1 of her teams points in the first half and they were winning by like 80.
The other team apparently sneaked out the back locker room doors. The coach for the other team said that they (Leslie and her team) were trying to embarrass his team and he would have none of it. Well I think that quitting a game is more embarrassing than giving up 200 points to one player IMO. Getting beat badly just means you suck as a team. Quitting means you suck as a person too. >>



I've spent all evening trying to figure out what good comes from a girls high school basketball team getting beat by over 100 points. >>




There's nothing good about it at all, but quitting is not the answer this coach should have offered as an option to his team. That teaches them nothing good about life. He should have told them to go out and do the best they could to stop her and try to outscore them in the second half. He should have tried to do anything he could to make them want to try to improve as a team. Hell, tell them they are using the second half as a practice and they get to skip their next one in turn. Sports is supposed to be about having fun, team unity and sportsmanship. In the end, one team (generally) always has to lose. Whether it be by 1 point or 100, a loss is a loss. All teams cannot be equally as good. If the coach allows his team to quit, at what point do they decide to quit in the next game?

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I think that in the situation described it was clear by half time who would win the game and it was also clear that it wasn't fun for the losing team. I think you bring up a good point about sportsmanship, and it is not in good sportsmanship to leave out the back door at half time. It would have been more appropriate to come out as a team, state that you want to forgoe the second half, and shake the other team's hand and then leave with dignity.

However, not being in the locker room with the girls (likely ages 15-18), its hard to know the real situation.

perkdog

I am a FIRM believer that when a game is out of hand and you have a lopsided victory you take your best player/s out of the game. I see this NOT happening in the NFL all the time, its a friggen joke


Anybody see Friday Night Lights? Any coach that would risk injury to his best player in a lopsided contest should be fired for stupidity.