Rebecca Greenwell, one of the nation's leading sophomores, sparked Owensboro Catholic (Ky.) to a 65-60 victory over Monroe County (Tompkinsville, Ky.) to claim the All "A" girls small-school state basketball championship in Kentucky.
The 6-foot-1 standout accounted for 33 points and 14 rebounds and scored 17 consecutive points for the Lady Aces during one dominating stretch to earn MVP honors. In four tourney games she amassed 132 points (record) and 56 rebounds (one short of the record).
Monroe County coach Dwayne Murray told Mike Fields of the Lexington Herald-Leader, "She's a great player. She just took over. At one time we had four people on her, but she still managed to score."
* "We're getting a lot of phone calls already and there will be a lot more," Mt. Carmel (Ill.) coach Tim Willis said of early college interest in his freshman star,
Tyra Buss.
Mt. Carmel's Tyra Buss.
Photo courtesy of Bob Poynter
The 5-6 guard broke the school record for the third time this year with 52 points during an 88-62 victory over Reitz (Evansville, Ind.).
Buss, who is averaging 31.5 points, previously had set school records with 42- and 49-point efforts. She is shooting 58 percent from the field and 84 percent from the free throw line for the 24-4 Lady Aces.
Willis says that his young star's greatest asset is "her competitive nature. She will make people around her better. She has extremely quick hands and she guards the best guard on defense."
Buss, who comes from an athletic family, also is an outstanding performer in tennis, track and cross country. At age 13 she placed second in the national Punt, Pass and Kick competition.
* One of the nation's leading juniors, 6-1
Kristen Gaffney, eclipsed her own school record with a 46-point outing as Green Hope (Cary, N.C.) defeated Panther Creek (Cary, N.C.), 87-53. Her previous record of 45 had been set two weeks earlier.
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Allie Kauffman, a 6-1 senior, had a school-record 42 points plus 14 rebounds and six steals as Blackhawk Christian (Fort Wayne, Ind.) routed Lakeland Christian Academy (Winona Lake, Ind.), 75-41. She later had 41 points during a 60-28 victory over Hamilton (Ind.) to break her school's career scoring record with 1,436 points. The boys record of 1,430 is held by 6-7 Russell Byrd, now at Michigan State University.
* Five-foot-three junior
Kamaren Cole Cole set a school record with 48 points as New Albany (Ind.) defeated Bosse (Evansville, Ind.), 82-67.
* Brush (Lyndhurst, Ohio) defeated Valley Forge (Parma Heights, Ohio), 66-49, as
Darmii Warren broke her own school record with 15 assists.
* Alan Vickrey of
North Central (Indianapolis), who has won a pair of Indiana Class 4A state titles and more than 450 games in 32 years, announced that he will resign at the conclusion of this season.
* Coaching milestone victories: Donna Cheatham of
Scottsburg (Ind.) extended her Indiana record with No. 600; Kevin Harper of
Bishop Ahr (Edison, N.J.) and Mary Mulligan-Crapo of
San Clemente (Calif.), each No. 500; and Tom West of
Portland Christian (Portland, Ore.), No. 300.
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