More on Rowsey’s 60-point game
In case you missed it Saturday night or Sunday morning, Rockbridge County senior Andrew Rowsey scored 60 points in a 117-87 victory over Stuarts Draft in the consolation game of the Spotswood Invitational in Penn Laird.
Rowsey left the game with 6:53 to play after spraining his ankle. He is expected to play Friday at Amherst County but he will miss at least one practice this week.
The breakdown on Rowsey’s night — which broke his own single-game school record of 47 points — is as follows: 15 points in the first quarter, 21 points in the second quarter, 18 points in the third quarter and six points in the fourth quarter.
The 5-foot-11 senior guard hit 24 of 33 shots from the field and was 5 of 10 from 3-point range.
Rowsey has scored 120 points in three games and has 1,826 for his career. Rockbridge has a minimum of 20 games remaining in 2012-13. If Rowsey plays in just 20 more games he would need to average more than 43 points per game the rest of the way to eclipsed the VHSL career scoring record of 2,687 set by Stacy Ervin of Twin Springs in 1997.
The VHSL/VIA career scoring list is here. See if you can guess who the top five scoring leaders in Timesland are.
The VHSL/VIA single-game scoring list is here. What is the all-time record? Let’s just say that Rowsey didn’t even make it halfway.
December 3, 2012 - 4:23 PM
He probably won’t end up #1 in all time scoring but top 10 is more than likely to happen and I expect him to he top 5 and pass the “beloved” JJ Redick as well as big names like Alonzo Mourning, Moses Malone, Grant Hill just to name a few pretty impressive for someone from little ole Rockbridge.
Mr. Anderson,I assure you that nobody in Rockbridge is thinking states right now,we are taking it one game at a time.lol
Exactly. I believe Hokie Hater is the person who brought that up. I’m certainly not ruling it out. With a six-team regional tournament, it just takes one or maybe two wins to make the state quarterfinals.
Good Luck Andrew, you can do it.
I followed the link to the record books. I was curious to see in 1950 a player scored 63 points in the McGaheysville vs. Broadway game — curious because McGaheysville is my hometown and my father went to high school there. I asked him if he remembered the 63-pointer. He didn’t, but did say that he was was surely there. He was a freshman that year and the coach let three freshmen on the team — on the condition they make their own uniforms! The McGaheysville teams were the Bobcats; their colors were black and orange, and my father tells me: “We dyed tee shirts orange and sewed on black flannel numbers.” That was the last year McGaheysville was in existence. After that, it was consolidated into Montevideo High School, which has since been further merged into what is now Spotswood High School.