

Franklin
Career Scoring
Boys
1,596 -- Easton Fulmer, 2022
1,519 -- Randy Lynch, 1984
1,352 -- Preston Morgan, 2018
1,295 -- Matt Koziara, 1995
1,176 -- Gary Shingledecker, 1986
1,170 -- Shaun Grill, 2002
1,164 -- Dave Ritchey, 1976
1,140 -- Nate Keith, 1996
1,087 -- Damon Curry, active
1,083 -- Dillon King, 2012
1,077 -- Jude Urda, 2006
1,053 -- Chuck Snell, 1957
1,031 -- Tim Carson, 1983
1,010 -- Jeff Loeffert, 1998
951 -- Tim Maleski, 2009
946 -- Nate Byham, 2006
944 -- Dave Miller, 1989
880 -- Hayden Adams, 2021
871 -- Isaac Drain, 2015
841 -- Lou Fogle, 1960
815 -- Scott Walters, 1990**
812 -- Kevin Blackhurst, 1989***
807 -- Larry Kozella, 1962
803 -- Noah Jones, 2013
802 -- Bob Witherup, 1970
799 -- Jim Guyton, 1971
797 -- Ted Marchibroda, 1949
764 -- Kyle Russell, 2016
757 -- Mike Koziara, 1991*
735 -- Ken Henson, 1956
720 -- Tyus Wood, 2019
Girls
2,299 -- Hillary Hager, 2000
1,598 -- Angelina Starr, 2014
1,564 -- Martha Williams, 1991
1,399 -- Saddie Gravatt, 2010
1,355 -- Rachel Reddick, 2002
1,248 -- Natalie Hager, 2012
1,232 -- Brittany Law, 2005
1,193 -- Valerie Hricsina, 1986
1,111 -- Jody Billingsley, 1990
1,047 -- Becca Gravatt, 2015
1,033 -- Mary Jane Long, 1983
1,012 -- Nikki Witherup, 2005
908-- Terri Brinker, 1977
899 -- Camdon Bashor, 2022
764 -- Becky Crum, 1993
719 -- Brittany Foust, 2008
708 -- Sondra Conway, 1983
* -- record probably incomplete
** -- record possibly incomplete but played jayvees as a sophomore
*** -- missing Jan. and Feb. of soph. year
Single Season
Boys
596 -- Shaun Grill, 2002
578 -- Easton Fulmer, 2022
572 -- Jude Urda, 2006
530 -- Easton Fulmer, 2021
519 -- Bob Witherup, 1970
519 -- Dave Miller, 1989
512 -- Dillon King, 2012
502 -- Chuck Snell, 1956
478 -- Dave Ritchey, 1975
468 -- Larry Kozella, 1962
467 -- Jim Guyton 1971
464 -- Damon Curry, 2023
462 -- Mike Anderson, 1979
457 -- Dave Ritchey, 1975
456 -- Preston Morgan, 2018
452 -- Kevin Blackhurst, 1989
446 -- Isaac Drain, 2015
441 -- Dave Ritchey, 1976
437 -- Mike Koziara, 1991
434 -- Gary Shingledecker, 1986
433 -- Greg Loeffert, 2001
431 -- Tyus Wood, 2019
430 -- Tim Carson, 1983
425 -- Randy Lynch, 1983
425 -- Dave Miller, 1988
421 -- Dick Shorts, 1918
411 -- Dillon King, 2011
411 -- Damon Curry, 2022
410 -- Dick Shorts, 1918
407 -- Scott Walters, 1990
403 -- Preston Morgan, 2016
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Girls
756 -- Hillary Hager, 2000
621 -- Martha Williams, 1991
560 -- Becca Gravatt, 2015
515 -- Valerie Hrcisina, 1986
490 -- Angelina Starr, 2014
452 -- Mary Jane Long, 1983
450 -- Angelina Starr, 2013
448 -- Martha Williams, 1990
441 -- Terri Brinker, 1976 (fall)
403 -- Saddle Gravatt, 2010
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36 or more
Boys
48 -- Dillon King, 2012
48 -- Preston Morgan, 2018
44 -- Mike Anderson, 1978
44 -- Shaun Gill, 2002
43 -- Dillon King, 2012
42 -- Chuck Snell, 1957
42 -- Jim Guyton, 1971
42 -- Kyle Russell, 2015
41 -- Jim Guyton, 1971
41 -- Easton Fulmer, 2021
38 -- Elgin Wood, 1919 (19 FGs)
38 -- Chuck Snell, 1956
38 -- Damon Curry, 2023
37 -- Mike Bowen, 1971
37 -- Dave Ritchey, 1975
37 -- Easton Fulmer, 2021
36 -- Steve Shingledecker, 1986
36 -- Easton Fulmer, 2022
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Girls
46 -- Terri Brinker, 1976 (fall)
44 -- Terri Brinker, 1976 (fall)
42 -- Ruth McAlevy , 1927*
42 -- Gladys Nadig, 1927*
40 -- Valerie Hricsina, 1986 (2X)
39 -- Becca Gravatt, 2014
39 -- Becca Gravatt, 2015
38 -- Terri Brinker, 1976 (fall)
38 -- Becca Gravatt, 2015
37 -- Gladys Nadig, 1927*
36 -- Angelina Starr, 2014
35 -- Ruth McAlevy, 1927*
* -- in 1927, there were six players to a side in girls hoops
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Rebounds
Career -- 500 or more
Boys
611 -- Dave Ritchey, 1979
595 -- Mike Bowen, 1971
516 -- Jim O'Toole, 1982*
* -- junior and senior years
Season -- 200 or more
Boys
298 -- Mike Bowen, 1971
297 -- Mike Bowen, 1970
250 -- Dave Ritchey, 1976
248 -- Bob Woods, 1974
238 -- Jack Ferringer, 1973
234 -- Noah Jones, 2011
220 -- Dave Ritchey, 1975
208 -- Jay Davis, 1972
191 -- Lou Fogle, 1960
Girls
372 (est.) -- Hillary Hager, 2000
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Game
Boys
25 -- Kerry Irons, 1977
Girls
34 -- Michelle Phipps, 1974 (fall of 1973)
Blocks
Boys
Season
96 -- Johnathan Leccia, 2023
Career
215 -- Johnathan Leccia, 2023
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3-pointers
Boys
Game
11 -- Shaun Grill, 2002
8 -- Easton Fulmer, 2022
Season
111 -- Shaun Grill, 2002
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224 -- Team, 2021 (school record)
Career
195 -- Easton Fulmer, 2021
182 -- Hayden Adams, 2021
160 -- Damon Curry, active
119 -- Tyus Wood, 2019
Girls
Season
85 -- Becca Gravatt, 2015
81 -- Saddie Gravatt, 2009
75 -- Saddie Gravatt, 2010
Career
247 -- Saddie Gravatt, 2010
160 -- Becca Gravatt, 2015
154 -- Angelina Starr, 2014
134 -- Brooke Deal, 2012
126 -- Natalie Hager, 2012
91 -- Brittany Foust, 2007
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Free throw shooting
Boys
Game
Chuck Snell -- 20/20 from the line during a 36-point game in 1956; 22/22, including 20 in one game, 1957
Preston Morgan -- 81% (80/99) in 2016
Girls
Season
Angelina Starr-- 82% (420/510), 2014
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Assists
Boys
Career
375 -- Easton Fulmer, 2021
336 -- Steve Russell, 1976
322 -- Larry Turner, 1972
230 -- Dalton Buckley, 2020
Season
215 + -- Mike Snell, 1979
160 -- Jalen Wood, 2023
158 -- Steve Russell, 1976
138 -- Steve Russell, 1975
134 -- Easton Fulmer, 2022
125 -- Dalton Buckley, 2020
121 -- Easton Fulmer, 2021
120 -- Dave Ritchey, 1976
119 -- Steve Eakin,
108 -- Dalton Buckley, 2019
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Game
17 -- Randy Lynch, 1982 vs. Cranberry
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Odds and Ends
Chuck Snell -- played in only 56 varsity games; scored 57 points in a junior high game, 1953
Terri Brinker -- scored all of Franklin's points in a 60-30 loss, 1976
The Franklin girls averaged 148.6 three-pointers per season from 2009-13. High was 176 in 2009.
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Franklin fielded girls teams all through the 1920s and down into the teens. The "Little Tractor" of 1927 raised more than $1,700 in 24 hours to make its trip to Wichita, Kansas, for a national tournament. Franklin lost to Thomas, Okla., in its first game. Lawton, Okla., won the event. Sharon, which twice in 1927 refused to play Franklin, was defending champion, but also lost its first game. Stationary forwards did most of the scoring in "sextet" hoops; in Franklin's case, it was Ruth McAlevy and Gladys Nadig that season.
Other Numbers of Note
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Shaun Grill holds the school and maybe county record with 11 3-pointers in a game. And he probably holds both marks for most 3-pointers in a season with 111 in 2002.
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The Knights set a season record for three-pointers with 244 in 2021 when Hayden Adams finished his career with 182. Easton Fulmer followed with 195 the next year...They broke the record of 213 set in 2020...
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When Chuck Snell made 22 straight free throws in 1956, including 20 in one game, The News-Herald called his feat "undoubtedly another record." Snell, in only 56 varsity games, converted 285 of 396 free throws (72%) in his career...His 20 straight in one game came when he tallied a then school record 38...
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Final point totals for Franklin's first state championship team in 2001: Greg Loeffert 433, Joe Grill 390, Jason Rockwell 387, Shaun Grill 345 and J.J. Horne 195. Pretty balanced.
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Meadville's 62-game winning streak at the House of Thrills went down the drain at the hands of Franklin on Feb. 3, 1970. Bob Witherup scored 34 points, making all 14 of his free throws, in the 66-61 victory...Chuck Snell was 20/20 from the line on Feb. 25, 1956, the night he scored 38...
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Franklin's 1949 team, led by Bill "Sleep" Richardson and Ted Marchibroda, finished 22-3 after losing to Sharpsville in the D-10 title game. That was the Nursery's best record since 1927 when the "Steam Rollers," as they were called, went 25-2. Franklin's "Pony Express" squad of 1938 also lost in the D-10 championship game. The Nursery's starting five averaged 5-8, and height-wise were no match for Farrell, whose center stood 6-4.
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The Knights' 12-game winning streak to start the 1955-56 was was stopped by Warren...The game before that, they relied from 17 points down to beat Cranberry...The old record was nine straight set in 1949...
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High-scoring trio -- The Knights just missed having three players score at least 400 points in a season. Dave Miller tallied 519, Kevin Blackhurst 452 and Scott Walters 396 in 1989, Ike Burnett's last season as coach. Those three hit 29 of 41 shots (71%) in a game against Titusville. Franklin scored 100 points three times that year...A few years earlier, in 1971, the Knights almost had a pair of 400-point scorers in Jim Guyton and Mike Bowen. Guyton finished with 470, but Bowen just missed with 395. Guyton also enjoyed a 41-point game, while Bowen later netted 37...Steve Russell was the career assists leader before 1976 with 336, including 158 his senior year...
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Terri Brinker averaged 23.9 points (335 in 14 games) as a junior in the fall of 1975 and followed that up with a 29.6 average as a senior in the early days of girls basketball. She graduated in 1977 with every program record to be had at Franklin...In a fall 1976 game against Cranberry, she scored all of the Lady Knights' points in a 69-30 loss...Angelina Starr shot 82 percent from the foul line (420/510) and made 154 three-pointers during her career...Becca Gravatt drilled 85 three-pointers her senior year and nailed a 3 in every game that season...Gravatt ended her career by hitting from distance in 28 straight games....The 2010 and 2011 girls teams made 303 3-pointers, led by Saddie Gravatt's 75 in 2010. She had six in one game, as did Brooke Deal. In fact, all six of her field goals were from distance....
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Before 1976, Dave Ritchey was the Knights' all-time rebounding leader with 611. Mike Bowen grabbed 298 and 297 rebounds in each of his last two years...
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A couple of side notes about Mike Anderson's 1978-79 season -- Bob Lynch's first as FHS coach -- in which he scored 44 points and led the Knights (462 in all) to a share of the Section 2 title. (1) The 44-point game came against Titusville, and he added a 37-point game Jan. 17 in a 101-77 romp over Warren. (2) He posted this unusual line Dec. 20 vs. Hickory: 4 21/24 29. 3. Tony Butler, who was second in scoring with 319, was a transfer from Meadville. 4. Mike Snell, son of Chuck, at one point late in the season had 215 assists, the News-Herald reported, including a couple of games with 13...
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Bob Andres' 31-point game on Jan. 9, 1951, came against Rocky Grove and broke Franklin's school record of 28 set on Feb. 14, 1939, by Larry Gent against Union City. Between Gent and Andres, the closest anyone came to breaking the record was Ralph Musser, who bucketed 27, also against the Grove in 1944. Musser also had a 25-point game against Titusville that season. Jim Woodburn had a 26-point game against Greenville in 1940 and Ted Marchibroda scored 26 twice in 1948 against Grove City and Meadville.
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Nothing was said in The News-Herald about the 28-point game being a record. However, the 165 points Gent scored in Section 2 games was a record. Gent totaled a record 245 points for the season. Union City was a member of Section 2, at least for that season. Earlier, Cochranton was a member of Section 2...
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In fact, there was a time that Section 2 an umbrella for two leagues: the Venango-Crawford League (Franklin, Oil City, Meadville and Titusville) and the Tri- or Bi-County circuit (Rocky Grove, Cranberry, Cochranton and later Mercer)...In the midst of all this (think 1930s, 1940s), Rocky Grove played out of Section 2, but Cranberry was a member of the Upper Allegheny Valley League, which the Berries dominated...
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Andres finished the 1951 campaign with 320 points -- another school record. The old record was 306 set in 1944 by Musser. Until 1951, the only other Franklin player to score 300 points in a season was Ted Marchibroda with 301 in 1948.
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Jayvee coach Ken Wolfe replaced the head man, Harry Sigel, midway through the 1948 season. Sigel, a former Penn State grid star, took a job in another school district. His record at Franklin was 115-64 with Section 2 titles in 1938, 1940 and 1941...Franklin's 1936 team was built around state champion golfer Barrett Melvin...
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ROARING '20s -- After winning in the district title in 1922, the Nursery was 83-19 during a four-year span from 1926-29 under coach Ed Treadwell...Elgin Wood made 19 field goals and finished with 38 points in Frankln's 73-9 romp over Emlenton on Feb. 22, 1919. The paper indicated the score could have been/should have been much worse. The Nursery missed 94 shots. "While quite a number of these would have been remarkable baskets had they landed, still fully three-quarters of them were easy opportunities with no opposition from the Emlenton boys," The News-Herald reported. The paper went on to say that Wood is a much improved shooter. "He is using both hands now, a la Jimmy Corrin, and can throw just as well as his left as with his right..."
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AND IN 1918 -- The Nursery played a 26-game regular season schedule, finishing 20-6, and then won a best-of-three from Kane for some sort of western Pa. title. Dick Shorts, who had played for the YMC A in 1917, led Franklin in scoring with 421 points, including 377 during the regular season. Shorts took a job with the state highway department, leaving for Clarion in the midst of the playoffs, and missed Game 2, but was back for the deciding game, which was played at Warren...
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Franklin has apparently had three homes in its hoops history. The Knights currently play at the high school, which opened in the early 1960s. The old high school was located downtown at what is now Central Elementary. The Knights/Nursery had played on that spacious floor since the 1937-38 season. Before that, and since the inception of the program, Franklin played on a dinky little floor at the Armory...
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BIG COMEBACK -- Franklin trailed Corry 50-30 at the end of the third quarter in a girls game in 1974, but scored 29 points in the fourth for a 59-57 victory. Michelle Phipps scored 16 of those 29 fourth-quarter points...
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Evolution of Scoring Records


From the Franklinite: Red Law doesn't have any basketball records at Franklin, but this is still a great photo. At 5-10, he could dunk and entertained during warmups in 1966. One thing he did do is put up an 0 16-16 16 line in a 62-54 loss to Corry in early February 1964. He also made his only free throw the next game. In between time he was 0-for-3 against Oil City and 2-for-8 to end the streak at either 17, 18 or 19. Another thing he did: outbound Meadvile culture all-stater (first team!) Chris Buchanan, 25-5, in one game. And in case you're wondering, Law scored 632 points as a three-year regular from 1964-66.
There was a time that winning basketball championships wasn't routine at Franklin. It had been 30 years since the Nursery claimed a league title in 1949 before they won another in 1979.



The 1927-28 Nursery was 20-3 and won the Allegheny-Kiski Valley post-season tourney. Pictured are (front row, from left), Bill Bean, Ken Harwood, Ted Yeager, Bobby Smiley and Bob Fry and (back row) coach Ed Treadwell, Cham MacMaster, Ralph Hied and faculty manager Fred Deane.