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Best single game performance.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:18 pm
by Firebirds
Curt and Jeff Larson.Gackle v.s. Linton. Curt had 9 three pointers and Jeff hit the game winning shot ,but the refs called it off. :(

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:21 pm
by Firebirds
[quote="Firebirds"]Curt and Jeff Larson.Gackle v.s. Linton. Curt had 9 three pointers and Jeff hit the game winning shot ,but the refs called it off. :( This was a regular season game in "84"

Re: Best single game performance.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:15 am
by InTheKnow
Hunter Berg went for 60 something in a Regional tournament game 1995. Don't know the exact total.

Re: Best single game performance.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:05 pm
by jtdc492
Didn't Steve Blehm have over 70 in a game.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:14 pm
by eastwood99
Wylee Bearstail scored 40 plus points in two games at the State B in 98

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:54 pm
by north_border_eagles2106
Mitch Carlson - 31 points, 25 rebounds against Edinburg in 1982 when Edinburg was good.

Re: Best single game performance.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:59 am
by Hoot12
Perry White Owl - New Town when they were at State not sure of his stats but he was good.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:29 pm
by BOB SAGET!
In a regrional tournament im pretty sure its the same one talked about above but i heard hunter had 15 points his first 5 trips down the court

Re: Best single game performance.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 2:33 pm
by hfs77
InTheKnow wrote:Hunter Berg went for 60 something in a Regional tournament game 1995. Don't know the exact total.


Actually, it was 58. I think it was the Regional Championship.

Also, pretty sure Steve Behm's career high was 85.

Re: Best single game performance.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:06 am
by Zap
One of the best performances I saw was in th 78-79 girls season.Kathy Schaff of the Zap Wildcats put up 52 against the Killdeer Cowboys.This was a state b record at the time .What else is that makes this special is there was no three point line . Also to the dismay of the fans the coach pulled Kathy out of the game half way through the third quarter.I am sure many more efforts at small schools that no longer exist have been forgotten.

Re: Best single game performance.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:50 pm
by duke_boy90
hfs77 wrote:
InTheKnow wrote:Hunter Berg went for 60 something in a Regional tournament game 1995. Don't know the exact total.


Actually, it was 58. I think it was the Regional Championship.

Also, pretty sure Steve Behm's career high was 85.


Wow 85! Do you by any chance no the final score of that game?

Re: Best single game performance.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:08 pm
by hfs77
duke_boy90 wrote:
hfs77 wrote:
InTheKnow wrote:Hunter Berg went for 60 something in a Regional tournament game 1995. Don't know the exact total.


Actually, it was 58. I think it was the Regional Championship.

Also, pretty sure Steve Behm's career high was 85.


Wow 85! Do you by any chance no the final score of that game?


North Dakota Datebook
---"Steve Blehm, Basketball Star"
Prairie Public Television, North Dakota Public Television-January 27, 2005


On this day – or actually this night – in 1971, a young man named Steve Blehm scored 85 points during the Ramsey County basketball tournament in Starkweather. That’s right, 85 points. Blehm was playing for the Devils Lake School for the Deaf, which beat Hampden 122 to 22 that night.
Steve Blehm was a phenomenal player, scoring 3,859 points during his high school career – that’s a state record that may never be broken. But it’s not his only record. His 4-year average of 41.5 points per game was a national highschool record, as was his 35.8 average during his freshman year. The following season, he racked up 1,134 points, averaging more than 47 points per game – the highest-ever average for any highschool sophomore. In fact, his “worst” performance that year was a measly 32-point game.
Blehm was unstoppable in all facets of the game, whether it was field goals, rebounds or free throws. In his four years with the School for the Deaf, he made 827 points from free throws alone. In fact, he once made 17 free throws in one game. And it wasn’t that he was tall, either. He was only 5'11", but still, he grabbed a total of 1,352 rebounds during his high school career.
If there’s one thing North Dakota history teaches us, it’s that the majority of our great heroes overcame great adversities on their way to the top. Blehm probably would have risen to the top of his game no matter what, but he did overcome some challenges along the way. He lost his hearing during childhood, when a now-banned medicine was prescribed for an ear infection. But – pardon the pun – Blehm rebounded. “I have never thought about my deafness being an obstacle to my goals,” he has said. “My hearing impairment is invisible, so people didn’t notice it except when trying to communicate with me.”
Blehm’s high school coach, Henry Brenner, said, “It was fantastic to have someone so fantastic. He moved here (from Bismarck) in the seventh grade, and you could see he was going to develop into something special.” Brenner’s son, Terry, said, “I think most people recognized “Blehm’s athletic ability instead of his disability, if you consider deafness a disability.”
Radio broadcaster, Lee Halvorson, has said, “He was one of the most mature young men I ever ran into.” Halvorson used to do the play-by-play for KDLR in Devils Lake. “(Blehm) is the best offensive basketball player I have ever seen in my life,” he said. “If they would have had 3-point range then, he would have one-third more points than he does now.” Halvorson recalled the Lakota Highschool coach once telling him his game plan for going up against the School for the Deaf. “He said if they could hold Blehm to between 30 and 40 points,” Halvorson said, “they could win the game. Blehm went out and scored 56 points. Pretty soon you took it for granted that he would have 35 or 40 points...by halftime.”
After highschool, Blehm went to Minot State for a semester and then transferred to Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. There, he was MVP in ‘76 and ‘77, and in 1978, he was named Gallaudet’s Athlete of the Year. During that time, he also won a gold medal at the World Games for the Deaf in Romania.
Blehm was talented, good-looking, and an honor student, but he wasn’t perfect. In fact, Coach Brenner had to call in his 4th grade son, Terry, to start helping Blehm pack his equipment. “He was my idol, no question,” Terry said. “(But, he) would forget this shoes or his jersey or his athletic supporter. Most people would loan him things – except the athletic supporter.”
Blehm and his wife, Linda, live in Virginia, where he works for the post office. He has said he’d consider a postal job transfer a “golden opportunity” to move back to North Dakota, because he misses it.


Article credit: http://www.prairiepublic.org/programs/d ... 012705.jsp

Re: Best single game performance.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:57 pm
by duke_boy90
That's a great story! Thank you for posting it.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:03 pm
by eastwood99
Just this year.......27 points,17 rebounds,11 blocks? You all know!

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:56 am
by Elevenfan
Eugene Baumgartner 72 pts. for Oriska in '63. He held the record until Blehm broke it.

Re: Best single game performance.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:01 pm
by AlwaysAMidget...
Robert Eaglestaff
Fort Yates Warriors
Class A Boys
1970
69 points

(this is just from human memory, please reply if you have the detailed data--My recollection is that this game was in Hettinger? Also gone is the academic year of this performance--was it 1969-1970 when Eaglestaff was a Junior? or was it 1970-1971 when he was a Senior?)

If it was a home game for Hettinger, could there be a witness/participant with "Insider Knowledge"?

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:49 am
by lockdown
probable have to put gus kueber's state tournament in there from last year. is he the only person to average a triple double for the state tournament?

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:41 pm
by Schmidty22
When Billy Michelsen of Century had 10 threes in a game against Minot in 2006. Michelsen ended up having 37 points on senior night and Century beat at that time the number one team in the state Minot.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:59 pm
by pimpdaddyG
that game was pretty insane schmidty22. i would have to agree with you on that one

Re: Best single game performance.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:13 pm
by AlwaysAMidget...
AlwaysAMidget... wrote:Robert Eaglestaff
Fort Yates Warriors
Class A Boys
1970
69 points

(this is just from human memory, please reply if you have the detailed data--My recollection is that this game was in Hettinger? Also gone is the academic year of this performance--was it 1969-1970 when Eaglestaff was a Junior? or was it 1970-1971 when he was a Senior?)

If it was a home game for Hettinger, could there be a witness/participant with "Insider Knowledge"?


News from a recent source reveals some of the pieces to this puzzle. Jim Quickstad, of the Hettinger Black Devils Class of 1971, tells me that he was sidelined for that game with knee issues. Considering that Quickstad was the regular starting post for Hettinger could indicate that Robert Eaglestaff had that game against reserve players. I believe that the head coach for Hettinger was Butterfield. The head coach for Fort Yates was Swisher.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:58 pm
by BaldEagle
It used to be a routine to read the NDSD box scores in the paper to see how many Blehm scored the night before.

Re: Best single game performance.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 5:47 pm
by winner-within
Hoot12 wrote:Perry White Owl - New Town when they were at State not sure of his stats but he was good.



watched him play in the state tourns and at Valley city state....the second he stepped through the door of the Bubble he was in range....Wow!!!!! :shock:

Re: Best single game performance.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:07 pm
by HailMary
hfs77 wrote:
duke_boy90 wrote:
hfs77 wrote:
InTheKnow wrote:Hunter Berg went for 60 something in a Regional tournament game 1995. Don't know the exact total.


Actually, it was 58. I think it was the Regional Championship.

Also, pretty sure Steve Behm's career high was 85.


Wow 85! Do you by any chance no the final score of that game?


North Dakota Datebook
---"Steve Blehm, Basketball Star"
Prairie Public Television, North Dakota Public Television-January 27, 2005


On this day – or actually this night – in 1971, a young man named Steve Blehm scored 85 points during the Ramsey County basketball tournament in Starkweather. That’s right, 85 points. Blehm was playing for the Devils Lake School for the Deaf, which beat Hampden 122 to 22 that night.
Steve Blehm was a phenomenal player, scoring 3,859 points during his high school career – that’s a state record that may never be broken. But it’s not his only record. His 4-year average of 41.5 points per game was a national highschool record, as was his 35.8 average during his freshman year. The following season, he racked up 1,134 points, averaging more than 47 points per game – the highest-ever average for any highschool sophomore. In fact, his “worst” performance that year was a measly 32-point game.
Blehm was unstoppable in all facets of the game, whether it was field goals, rebounds or free throws. In his four years with the School for the Deaf, he made 827 points from free throws alone. In fact, he once made 17 free throws in one game. And it wasn’t that he was tall, either. He was only 5'11", but still, he grabbed a total of 1,352 rebounds during his high school career.
If there’s one thing North Dakota history teaches us, it’s that the majority of our great heroes overcame great adversities on their way to the top. Blehm probably would have risen to the top of his game no matter what, but he did overcome some challenges along the way. He lost his hearing during childhood, when a now-banned medicine was prescribed for an ear infection. But – pardon the pun – Blehm rebounded. “I have never thought about my deafness being an obstacle to my goals,” he has said. “My hearing impairment is invisible, so people didn’t notice it except when trying to communicate with me.”
Blehm’s high school coach, Henry Brenner, said, “It was fantastic to have someone so fantastic. He moved here (from Bismarck) in the seventh grade, and you could see he was going to develop into something special.” Brenner’s son, Terry, said, “I think most people recognized “Blehm’s athletic ability instead of his disability, if you consider deafness a disability.”
Radio broadcaster, Lee Halvorson, has said, “He was one of the most mature young men I ever ran into.” Halvorson used to do the play-by-play for KDLR in Devils Lake. “(Blehm) is the best offensive basketball player I have ever seen in my life,” he said. “If they would have had 3-point range then, he would have one-third more points than he does now.” Halvorson recalled the Lakota Highschool coach once telling him his game plan for going up against the School for the Deaf. “He said if they could hold Blehm to between 30 and 40 points,” Halvorson said, “they could win the game. Blehm went out and scored 56 points. Pretty soon you took it for granted that he would have 35 or 40 points...by halftime.”
After highschool, Blehm went to Minot State for a semester and then transferred to Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. There, he was MVP in ‘76 and ‘77, and in 1978, he was named Gallaudet’s Athlete of the Year. During that time, he also won a gold medal at the World Games for the Deaf in Romania.
Blehm was talented, good-looking, and an honor student, but he wasn’t perfect. In fact, Coach Brenner had to call in his 4th grade son, Terry, to start helping Blehm pack his equipment. “He was my idol, no question,” Terry said. “(But, he) would forget this shoes or his jersey or his athletic supporter. Most people would loan him things – except the athletic supporter.”
Blehm and his wife, Linda, live in Virginia, where he works for the post office. He has said he’d consider a postal job transfer a “golden opportunity” to move back to North Dakota, because he misses it.


Article credit: http://www.prairiepublic.org/programs/datebook/zoom ankle brace/bydate/05/0105/012705.jsp


If you ask me an 85 point game is almost impossible to match. Not only in our state but in the entire country. I know there have been a few hundred pointers and what not, but when I was growing up near Dickinson this guys name was legend. There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest single game performance, you have to trust the numbers and the history.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:36 am
by sanantonio_spurs
What about past 5 years.

Michael Young Bird with 44 points. Nothing compared to the old schoolers!

And a boy from Mandaree had over 100 points at State B when they went somewhere around 2000.

Re: Best single game performance.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:31 pm
by baloncesto
sanantonio_spurs wrote:What about past 5 years.

Michael Young Bird with 44 points. Nothing compared to the old schoolers!

And a boy from Mandaree had over 100 points at State B when they went somewhere around 2000.

Ransom schutt milnor
46 points in regionals