Because you asked for it ...

A friend of mine on Facebook asked to see the 1,000-point scorers for Mansfield High because he wasn't sure who was among them, so I gladly will oblige.

Mansfield's Ryan Boulter.

Hard to believe that a school so good at basketball has only six names on the 1,000-point list, but there are good reasons for it. First, from the 1970s through much of the 2000s, Mansfield basically sucked at basketball. Sorry to be so harsh, but I went there and I know. There were good individual players from both the boys' and girls' teams, but not enough of them. And second, the style of play entering this period of excellence has been such that the scoring has been spread around among a lot of very talented players, and not all residing in one or two.

Still, talent usually rises to the top, and that's how it was recently for Ryan Boulter and Meg Hill. And keep your eyes on T.J. Guy and Matty Boen, who should enter next season with more than 600 points apiece. The Hornets also play a lot of games, often 23 in the regular season thanks to exclusion and endowment games, so long tournament runs are very helpful to the quest for quadruple digits.

Player                    Points   Games     Career
Ron Gentili              1,387     91        1958-62
Ryan Boulter           1,324     79        2012-15
Sue Patchett           1,214     80         1989-93
Meg Hill                  1,090    100        2014-18
Paul Souza              1,036      58        1976-79
Geoffrey Stearns    1,008    n/a        1956-59