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Baldwin To Recognize 1,000-Point Basketball Scorers
The high school will honor 10 of its greatest basketball players later this month.
BALDWIN, PA — Baldwin High School is inviting back the 10 elite athletes who have scored 1,000 points on the basketball court for the Fighting Highlanders. The athletes will be honored on Jan. 27th between the girls and boys basketball games against Mount Lebanon.
Bernie O'Keefe, who played for the Fighting Highlanders in the late 60s, notes that Baldwin High School basketball has a rich legacy.
“I seem to be the elder statesman of this group and have much history," O'Keefe said. "In the 1950s Press Maravich coached basketball at Baldwin and regularly brought his 6 year-old son to many practices to ball handle.”
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The son’s name? Pistol Pete Maravich, who went on to be the all-time leading NCAA Division I scorer and play in the NBA for the Atlanta Hawks and New Orleans Jazz.
The players who will be recognized:
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- Ed Scheuermann, 1,384 points, 1973-76.
- Todd Sherwin, 1,237, 1980-82.
- Gavin Prosser, 1,200, 1999-2003.
- Mark Susan, 1,006, 1989-1992.
- Bernie O'Keefe, 1,101, 1967-70.
- Rege O'Keefe, 1,047, 1974-77.
- Mike Wilcox, 1,098, 1980-82.
- Lauren Gilbert, 1,297, 2013-16.
- Belma Nurkic, 1,797, 2008-11.
- Samantha Walsh, 1,100, 2007-10.
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