New York Girl Scores 113 in Basketball Game

Epiphanny Prince is the star of lower Manhattan’s Murry Bergtraum High School girls’ basketball team. Actually, “star” doesn’t quite cover it. Suggestions are welcome to describe a young woman who scored 113 points in her team’s 137-32 rout of Louis Brandeis High School. She passed Kobe Bryant’s astonishing 81 points before the start of the fourth quarter.

OK, high school isn’t the NBA, the WNBA or for that matter college ball. Ms. Prince is 5 foot 10 inches tall, so she might have a bit of an advantage over many of the opposition’s defenders. But she broke the 105 point record held by Cheryl “WNBA and Olympic Games” Miller, a record that stood for 24 years. It was quite a night.

“I guess this is just once in a lifetime,” Ms. Prince of Brooklyn told Julian Garcia of New York’s Daily News. “This is amazing to me. When I found out I broke the record, I just started smiling. I couldn't stop smiling.” Hitting 54 out of 60 shots would make anyone smile, if not pass out from shock. Moreover, she scored just 1 from the free-throw line and “only” four from three-point range.

LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, himself a high school miracle worker a while back, was impressed. “That is amazing. I am happy for that girl. . . . I guess she is going to be in the WNBA. Score 113 points, you might be in the NBA.” Her coach, Mr. Apache Paschall, said “In the first half all I was thinking about was her catching Kobe. But when she wasn’t missing any shots in the second half, it just got ridiculous.” (And what wonderful names they have at Bergtraum High, Epiphanny and Apache are far more interesting than Ann and John).

Ms. Prince is not going to follow Mr. James from high school straight to the pros. She’ll be attending Rutgers in the autumn. Although she has had a bit of trouble with the law (a “brawl outside a Brooklyn supermarket” according to Mr. Garcia), it appears she’s getting some decent advice. Mike Tyson should have been so lucky.


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