Before Friday, scoring 60 or more points had been achieved only three times in Minnesota girls basketball history.
Pine City’s Karly Jusczak, Ogilvie’s Grace Heins each surpass 60 points in same game
Grace Heins scored 62 points for Ogilvie in an 89-82 victory at Pine City, which got 63 points from Karly Jusczak.
The Minnesota Star Tribune
February 10, 2024 at 11:17PM
On Friday in a Great River Conference game between Ogilvie and host Pine City, the mark was surpassed by a player from each team.
Pine City senior Karly Jusczak scored 63 points and Ogilvie senior Grace Heins scored 62 points in Ogilvie’s 89-82 victory.
Jusczak, a 6-1 forward who has signed to play collegiately at Idaho, is averaging 28.1 points per game this season. Heins, a 5-6 guard, tied a school record with nine three-pointers and improved her scoring average this season to 29.9.
When the teams played on Jan. 23 in Ogilvie, Heins scored 31 points and Jusczak 39 in Ogilvie’s 82-80 victory.
The first three players to score more than 60 points were Prior Lake’s McKenna Hofschild (63 on Dec. 1, 2018); Duluth Marshall’s Gianna Kneepkens (67 on March 30, 2021) and Providence Academy’s Maddyn Greenway (60 on Feb. 17, 2023).
Hofschild is a graduate student playing for Colorado State, Kneepkens is a junior at Utah who has been sidelined by a foot injury and Greenway, a sophomore at Providence Academy, recently became the second fastest girls player in state history to reach 3,000 career points.
Six players plus head coach Garrett Raboin and assistant coach Ben Gordon are from Minnesota. The tournament’s games will be televised starting Monday.
