Price is right for 113

#1 posting 2.2.2006

POINT PARADE
IL
AA
Alicia Shaw, Chicago Julian 28 vs Chicago Roosevelt 56-49
A
Jenny Clark, Cambridge 39 vs Westmar 70-35

MN
JUCO
Tarah Geisler, Itasca 30 vs Northland 88-57
Amy Kelvie, Minneapolis 26 vs MN West 87-65
Gabby Gustafson, Minneapolis 25 vs MN West 87-65
AAAA
Breanna Salley, St. Francis 30 vs St. Louis Park 64-57 (j31)

NY
Epiphanny Price, Murray Bergtraum 113 vs Louis Brandeis 137-32.
Read more in the Washington Post. Thanks to Google News
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/01/AR2006020102025.html

WI
D1
Lacey Thilmany, Rhinelander 30 vs DC Everest 50-59 (j31)

MILESTONES
IA
Mallory Menefee, Nodaway Valley reached the 1000 point level with 20 points in a 66-46 win against Wayne
MN
Whitney Coffield, Kittson County North reached the 1000 point mark with 10 points in a 62-48 loss to Stephen-Argyle J26. She is the first girl from KCN to reach the mark. She will be the last too as KCN is on track to pair with Kittson Central next year.
ND
Samantha Baldwin, Drayton-St. Thomas reached the 1000 point mark with 14 points in a game with North Border J30. She is the first from this school pairing, but she is the third from her family. Two aunts, Marybeth and Laurie Baldwin, reached 1000 at the St. Thomas-Valley pairing. Laurie Baldwin Sieben is now the coach at Grafton. Samantha's father is the coach at Drayton-St. Thomas and brother to the two sisters.
NY
More on Price: She broke the girl's single game record of 105 held by Cheryl Miller of Riverside Polytechnic set in 1982.

NUMBER 1s
MN
AAAA Hopkins: AAA Marshall; AA Breck; A Osakis
ND
A Mandan; B Bottineau
USA TODAY
National Poll
#4 Oak Park Fenwick, IL; #17 Chicago Hope; #20 Bloomington Kennedy, MN; #21 Bolingbrook, IL; #22 Southfield-Lathrup, MI
Midwest poll
#1 Fenwick; #3 Chicago Hope; #5 Bloomington Kennedy; #6, Bolingbrook; #7 Southfield-Lathrup

PRICE AND COST
I know everybody is amazed by the point totals by Price, but how good was the other team? I think we know the answer to that question. That is why I totally throw out those results when rating players. She will never see that kind of opposition on the bigger stage of college basketball. How easy is it to shoot fish in a barrell? From what I understand she was 54/60 from the floor--mostly on lay ups. There is no point in keeping a player in a contest that is over. Now I also believe it is up to the other team to get better. But at some point there is a point of diminishing returns. Pressing for the sake of a record...not impressive.
Murray Bergtraum needs to upgrade it's schedule and eliminate the cupcakes.

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