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: 9/1/23
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
September 1, 2023
NOTE: Thursday’s football highlights will be included in Tuesday morning's Week 2 “1st & Goal” review.
1. GIRLS GOLF Traverse City Central shot a 362 to win the Petoskey Invitational – Traverse City Record-Eagle
2. CROSS COUNTRY The Tecumseh girls and Brownstown Woodhaven boys won Downriver Watermelon Run championships – Athletic.net | Southgate News-Herald
3. CROSS COUNTRY Traverse City St. Francis swept big-school titles at the East Jordan Red Devil Invitational, and the Harbor Springs girls and Johannesburg-Lewiston boys won small-school championships – Athletic.net | Cheboygan Daily Tribune
4. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING Ludington edged Gaylord 92-84 in a dual – Ludington Daily News