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The Hannah Wilkerson Watch — Week 2

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
This future Missouri State Lady Bear has a chance to become Missouri's all-time leading scorer.

This future Missouri State Lady Bear has a chance to become Missouri's all-time leading scorer.

Ho-hum, just another pair of 30-plus pont games for Miller senior and future Missouri State Lady Bear Hannah Wilkerson.

After wins over Golden City and Greenfield last week, Wilkerson continues her pace to obliterate Missouri’s career scoring record. This is Week No. 2 of the HWW and if you missed the initial installment, click here to get her back story.

But for now, all you need to know is she is well on her way to becoming the top scorer in Missouri history.

If you haven’t yet seen her play and are a Mediacom subscriber, replays of last night’s game with Strafford will be shown on Mediacom Connections Channel 22 at 4:30 p.m. today and Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday.

So far this season (through Sunday, Dec. 20):

  • Fair Grove, 38 points
  • Harrison (Ark.), 39 points
  • Marshfield, 44 points
  • Webb City, 34 points
  • Golden City, 34 points
  • Greenfield, 37 points
  • Total: 226

The state’s top career scorers:

  1. Melissa Grider, Morrisville-Marshfield, 1989-91, 3,211
  2. Kari Koch, Elsberry, 1999-2002, 3,077
  3. Lauren Dubbert, Madison, 2002-05, 3,038
  4. Joyce Arnsmeyer, So. Boone County, 1963-66, 3,036
  5. Lisa Ellis, Elsberry, 1981-84, 2,980
  6. Renee Garrison, Climax Springs, 1998-2001, 2,944
  7. Shyla Tucker, Fredericktown, 1987-90, 2,926
  8. Michelle Holman, Dadeville, 1994-97, 2,820
  9. Bethany Creed, Ash Grove, 1999-2002, 2,760
  10. Casey Garrison, Bolivar, 2004-08, 2,744
  11. Michele Harkrader, Rich Hill, 1985-88, 2,735
  12. Jessica Keller, Belle, 2002-05, 2,735
  13. Sonya Daugherty, Hancock, 2002-05, 2,703
  14. Hannah Wilkerson, 2007-2010, Miller, 2,700

Most points in a season

  1. Melissa Grider, Morrisville-Marshfield, 1998-2001, 1,231
  2. Joyce Arnsmeyer, So. Boone County, 1965-66, 994
  3. Kari Koch, Elsberry, 2001-02, 956
  4. Shyla Tucker, Fredericktown, 1988-89, 952
  5. Hannah Wilkerson, Miller, 2008-09, 940

Most points scored by a freshman in a season

  1. Hannah Wilkerson, Miller, 2006-07, 746
  2. Lauren Dubbert, Madison, 2001-02, 686
  3. Sonya Daugherty, Hancock, 2001-02, 642
  4. Tasheena Mmoris, Blue Eye, 2001-02, 634
  5. Kami Scrivner, Mt. Vernon, 1997-98, 616

We are trying to piece together what other records she has either broken, or is closing in on, so be sure to check back for weekly updates.

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The Hannah Wilkerson Watch

Thursday, December 17th, 2009
This future Lady Bear has a chance to become Missouri's all-time leading scorer

This future Missouri State Lady Bear has a chance to become Missouri's all-time leading scorer.

Hannah Wilkerson is positioning herself to be one of the best players in Missouri girls’ basketball history.

The 5-foot-9 Miller High School junior has been a prolific scorer since she took the court as a freshman and has developed an uncanny knack for scoring, one that sometimes doesn’t seem possible. Through last season, Wilkerson scored 2,474 points, leaving her 737 points behind Melissa Grider’s all-time mark of 3,211. Does Grider’s name sound familiar?  She’s the star that split the all-time scoring mark from 1988-91 between Morrisville and Marshfield.

Eerily similar to Caleb Schaffitzel’s countdown to breaking the state’s touchdown record, Wilkerson is poised to the girls’ basketball equivalent. Now, I don’t care if you love high school girls’ basketball, or choose to ignore it, there’s no shunning the importance of this mark. It will mean that our corner of the state has an absolute lockdown on the state’s most hallowed career record.

Just take a look at the top two:

  1. Melissa Grider, Morrisville-Marshfield, 1998-2001, 3,211
  2. Kari Koch, Elsberry, 1999-2002, 3077

Yep, that’s an Ozarks native in Grider and a Lady Bear great in Koch. Time to swell with pride. And if you feel that 737 points over a span of 30-or-so games is impossible, 737 would represent Wilkerson’s lowest season total.

  • Freshman, 749 points (a state record)
  • Sophomore, 785
  • Junior, 940

Here at RecSpecsOnline.com, we are going to do weekly updates on Wilkerson’s scoring outbursts — and the first couple are ridiculous (You’ll see by clicking the more link below).

Keep checking back, it’s going to be another record-breaking season.

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