Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Tuesday's Parkland-Liberty game was one for the record books

http://blogs.mcall.com/groller/ FROM KEITH GROLLER Tuesday night's Parkland-Liberty was the kind of game that many area basketball fans wish we'd see much more often than we do. It was a feast for the eyes, if you like offense. The 90-78 Parkland victory got us searching the Lehigh Valley Conference record books and it turns out that at 168 points it was the second-highest scoring game in the 11-year history of the LVC behind only the 169 put on the board by Northampton and Allen in a 2005-06 game won by the Konkrete Kids, 89-80. The 90 points by Parkland was the second-highest total in LVC history for one team behind only the 94 scored by an Andy Stephens-coached Emmaus team in the 2004-05 season. The Green Hornets beat Dieruff 94-54 that season. In terms of games involving at least one LVC team, Parkland-Liberty ranks fourth all-time behind the 186 points compiled by Allen and Chester in a memorable 2006 PIAA 4A quarterfinal won by the Clippers 97-89, the 185 total of Stroudsburg's 99-86 win over Becahi in the 2008-09 season and the aforementioned 169 of the Northampton-Allen game in 2005-06. It doesn't happen every day that you score 90 points in a game as the list below will attest. In fact, one team scores 80 very rarely in a given season. Allen, amazingly, hit 80 eight times in that memorable 2005-06 season when the Canaries went 27-5, won both the LVC and District 11 titles and averaged a league-record 71.8 points per game. Top point productions in LVC history: 2012-13 season Parkland 90, Liberty 78 2011-12 season Allen 81, PM East 58 2010-11 season Allen 87, Gov Mifflin 70 Dieruff 87, Catty 65 Nazareth 86, Emmaus 79 CCHS 80, Becahi 78 2009-10 season Becahi 86, Pen Argyl 54 CCHS 86, Bangor 65 Allen 85, Becahi 53 Allen 84, Dieruff 39 Becahi 83, Pottstown 76 Nazareth 81, Dieruff 40 2008-09 season Stroudsburg 99, Becahi 86 Liberty 86, Becahi 66 Emmaus 84, Becahi 74 Allen 82, Becahi 66 Becahi 80, North Schuylkill 70 2007-08 season Nazareth 81, Southern Lehigh 72 2006-07 season Freedom 86, Northampton 71 Easton 82, Northampton 62 Easton 81, PM West 52 2005-06 season Northampton 89, Allen 80 Allen 87, Dieruff 74 Allen 87, Becahi 59 Allen 86, Dieruff 64 Allen 86, Bergen Catholic 73 Allen 85, Emmaus 60 Northampton 82, Becahi 75 Allen 81 Stroudsburg 68 Chester 97, Allen 89 2004-05 Emmaus 94, Dieruff 54 Liberty 81, Susquehanna 41 Allen 80, Daniel Boone 37 Parkland 80, Dieruff 70 2003-04 Parkland 80, Allen 69 2002-03 Northampton 86, Northwestern 50 Allen 85, Pleasant Valley 58

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