Thursday, February 02, 2006
Sportsmangirlship.
One day after Madison Square Garden [basketball] fans waited in vain for Kobe Bryant to break a scoring record, 18-year-old Epiphanny Prince did it instead.
The senior at Murry Bergtraum HS in Manhattan set a national girls' scoring record yesterday with 113 points in the Lady Blazers' 137-32 win over Brandeis in a Public School Athletic League game....
Bergtraum coach Ed Grezinsky was unapologetic. "... we only pressed a little bit," said Grezinsky ...
Brandeis head coach Vera Springer was not pleased with the decision to keep Prince in the game.
"It's bull----," Springer said... "This was an adult decision. Why would you do this against a team like ours?" [which] has won just four games in the league.
"She didn't earn this," said Springer, who added that her team stopped playing defense in the second half. "It was like picking on a handicapped person."
Grezinsky disagreed. "I'm not apologizing for her," he said. "She got what she was able to get" ...
Prince made less favorable headlines last year, when she was put on trial for assault and harassment charges after an incident involving a younger girl. She was acquitted of the more serious charges, but convicted of harassment and sentenced to community service...
Prince ... shattered Cheryl Miller's record of 105 points set with Riverside Polytechnic HS ... in a 175-15 win over Notre Vista, California in 1982.
WNBA star Lisa Leslie once scored 101 points in the first half of a game for Inglewood Morningside HS in California. The opposing team did not come out for the second half... [NY Post]
