Burling's 97 (Traverse Magazine)
February 21, 2012
The details remain hazy and there is little explanation to go with what Crystal Falls' Ed Burling accomplished on an unknown date during the 1910-11 season.
Todd Schulz tells us what is known about the MHSAA record holder for most points in a boys basketball game.
One of many great scene-setters from the former Lansing State Journal columnist:
Nearly a century later, Burling’s feat stands as the state record for points scored in a high school game by a single player. Unfortunately, the details of the game have dropped into darkness, as if they were tossed down one of the mine shafts that littered Crystal Falls’ rugged landscape.
Click "The Basketball Mystery that Endures" to read the rest at MyNorth.com.
Today in the MHSAA: 5/7/25
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
May 7, 2025
1. TRACK & FIELD The Romeo girls and Macomb Dakota boys clinched Macomb Area Conference Red championships – Macomb Daily Girls | Boys
2. GIRLS SOCCER Division 1 No. 2 Bloomfield Hills clinched a share of the Oakland Activities Association Red title with a 2-0 win over No. 8 Rochester Adams – Oakland Press
3. BASEBALL Parchment earned coach Rob Dreier his 500th career win with a 16-4 defeat of Lawton – Kalamazoo Gazette
4. GIRLS SOCCER Division 1 No. 10 Troy Athens remains in contention for a share in the OAA Red as well after a 2-0 win over No. 7 Troy – Oakland Press
5. GIRLS SOCCER Division 3 No. 11 Traverse City St. Francis avenged an earlier loss to Division 4 No. 3 Leland with a 2-0 win – MI Sports Now
6. BOYS GOLF Freeland and Saginaw Valley Lutheran’s Reid Schisler were Saginaw County Invitational champions – Saginaw News
7. SOFTBALL Coloma swept Division 3 honorable mention Watervliet, allowing a combined two runs over the two games – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium
8. BOYS GOLF Cassopolis claimed the Scott Novak Memorial Cup championship – Niles Daily Star
9. TRACK & FIELD The Remus Chippewa Hills girls – No. 1 in Lower Peninsula Division 3 – pulled within a few more wins of a potential 22nd-straight league title, and Big Rapids’ boys also remained alive for a championship with a sweep – Big Rapids Pioneer
10. BASEBALL Gaylord St. Mary’s Daniel Jacobson went 5-for-6 in his team’s split with Johannesburg-Lewiston a day after pacing the golf team in a win by tying for the lead in his first high school golf event – Petoskey News-Review