Allen on track to become ‘Cats all-time leading scorer

Woodmore 6-foot-1 senior forward Brooke Allen needed just one point to tie, two points to become the school’s all-time leading girls basketball career scorer when the Wildcats’ Northern Buckeye Conference game hosted Genoa Thursday night.

Allen scored 17, including 15 in the second half, as Woodmore found a way to win a 54-41 non-league game against a scrappy Ottawa Hills team on Monday. The Wildcats scored the game’s final 10 points.

Allen crossed the 1,000-point career plateau in December and is averaging a double-double 21 points and 11.1 rebounds, and that includes 15.3 points in the paint and 5.3 rebounds on the offensive boards.

Allen was looking to break the career scoring mark of 1,210 points set by Lori Kuhlman, who graduated in 1986. Kuhlman is also the career rebound record holder at 771, and Allen is closing in at 738 heading into Thursday’s game. 

Kuhlman is also the career point average holder at 18.6 per game and holds the single season scoring record of 491 points (1985-86) for 24 games. Allen may not be able to get the career average number, but has an outside chance of the single season record. She is currently at 329 points with six regular season games and the tournament remaining. However, two of the teams remaining on the schedule, Genoa and Elmwood, held Allen to nine points in their first meeting.

As far as the all-time list, both boys and girls, Jeff Haar is first (1,419) and Tyler Rosenberger (1,369) second, so Allen will likely sit at third once she gets the all-time career mark. 

The Wildcats are 14-2 overall and 9-2 in the NBC, one game behind league leader Elmwood (14-2, 10-1). The Wildcats and Royals face off Thursday, Feb. 4 at Elmwood. The Wildcats are in good shape to get the one or two seed in the Division IV district and could eventually match up with Toledo Christian, which is 14-2.