Other Numbers of Note

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Mike Emick sat out the last 5:30 in the game (121-48 Oiler victory) he scored 56 against Rocky Grove on Feb. 9, 1971. He tied the Section 2 record set on Jan. 19, 1954, by Meadville's Lloyd Sharrar against Franklin...Emick had 22 points and 32 rebounds against the Grove earlier in the 1971-72 season...Emick had five games of 30 or more rebounds, including a high of 36 against Franklin. He totaled 256 boards in the 10 (of 25) games that  rebounds were reported to the newspaper...Injuries his junior year might have cost him membership in the 700 club; he totaled 600 points in his two seasons on the varsity...

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Emick bucketed 20 field goals and was 16/17 from the line; Al Foster had 22 field goals and was 7/16 from the line when he scored 51 against Titusville, a 105-14 victory,  in 1918...All of Oil City's 40-point plus game came in February...

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The Oilers' highest scoring quarter when Emick bucketed 56 against the Grove was 41 in the third -- not the school record. The Oilers scored 43 points in a game against Corry during the 1955-56 season.

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Anecdote about Bridget Hale's 46-point game. Coach Peg McDougal took her out with three minutes left and afterward contacted former OCHS coach Rick Fletcher only to be told the school record was Trish Erickson's 48...Erickson, by the way, was featured in "Faces in the Crowd" in Sports illustrated...

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Ron McCoid made 22 straight free throws in five Section 2 games during the 1964-65 season. Counting all games from Jan. 8-Feb. 2, McCoid was 39-for-41 from the line. He was 14/14 vs. Franklin, East and Warren, then went 9/10 vs. Vincent, but it's not known when he missed. He followed that up by going 10/10 vs. Titusville and Corry before missing once in seven tries vs. Franklin. He shot 85% (57/67) for the season...Cam Van Wormer was a free throw made short of matching McCoid. He made 21 straight, his streak starting Feb. 3 vs. Titusville and ending when he missed the second of a two-shot foul March 11 against Neshannock. Van Wormer shot 76.2% during the 2022-23 campaign, including 30 of 33 during a 16-game stretch...Here's another one: Jon Settlemire was 13/13 at the line in a 1971 game...

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Tyler Lukasiak canned a school record nine three-pointers in a 2016 game ...Brendan Brown made 92 three-pointers in his two years as a starter in 1990-91...C.J. Fletcher is one behind with 91 trifectas as a two-year regular in 2003-04; he scored 637 points during that time. This includes a 32-point, five-trey effort in February 2003...Don't know if he played as a soph...I count 112 three-pointers for Cam VanWormer, but have no idea what the school record is...Devon Geib (2014) just missed "the list"; he had 699 career points...Jackson McFall scored 830 of his 1,097 career points at Oil City, the rest as a CLA ninth-grader...

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Tracy Whitling, 6-4, not only holds the career scoring record among girls with 1,346 points, but she has the rebounding record, too, with 1,213...

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Peg McDougal pulled down 36 rebounds in a game and 398 for the 1974-75 campaign...Janelle Hall finished her career with 361 assists and 85 3-pointers...Erin Morris  made 107 steals during the 1992-93 campaign...She handed out 169 assists and was credited with the school record; Hall had 150 assists as her senior season began winding down...Speaking of assists: Stats for Jodi Gault were not kept all the time; however, she dished out 44 assists in Oil City's six playoff games in 1975. The Oilerettes were 22-1, and she had 72 in the 14 that that stat was kept...Getting back to McDougal: with Gault hobbled by an elbow injury, but still clutch, McDougal averaged 24.7 points and 19 rebounds in the six post-season games in which Oil City reached the state semifinal before losing to Elizabeth-Forward...

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Hud Wells said Dick Erickson's 216-point season in 1948 was the most points anyone at Oil City had ever scored since he started coaching the Oilers in 1931...The Oilers had two 30-point scorers on Feb. 4, 1956, when Bob Hartz netted 35 and Howdy Rose 32 in a 102-57 romp over Corry...

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Six-foot-seven Chris Jasiota averaged a double-double 16.7 points and 10.8 rebounds for the 2003 Oilers before heading off to Juniata, where he scored 959 points as a four-year regular. Jasiota was a three-time all-conference choice, making the first team (TCAC as it was known then) as a junior and senior...Mike Koziara, 6-6, was given a ball from coach Dan Fry before a late-season game in 1994 commemorating his 700 points and 700 rebounds...

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The Oilers, then coached by Jason Fulmer, ended Farrell's 50-game winning streak against District 10 competition with a 53-49 decision on Jan. 20, 2010. It was also the Steelers' first-ever region loss. Dallas Williams scored 22 points and pulled down 16 rebounds in that game...Speaking of streaks, the Oil City girls had their 43-game Section 2 skein stopped at Corry, 63-37, on Sept. 16,1975. Oil City had never lost a league game until the game...The Oilerettes also had a 26-game overall winning streak snapped by Bradford, 49-46, on Set. 30, 1972...

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From the Never Say Never Dept.: On March 1, 1948, The News Herald reported: "Dick Erickson set a modern scoring record at Oil City with 216 points...His record might be for ALL-TIME (caps mine) (since) available scoring fugues show him to be the only Oil City basketball in recent years to exceed the two century mark"...Now I realize the Oilers have had only ONE player to score 1,000 career points wearing an OCHS uniform (Ben Schill) and no male player has ever scored more than 500 points in a season (Mike Emick's 498 in 1971 is the school record), but come on. I would not, here in 2023, say that 498 is going to stand for all-time. I'm old enough to know you NEVER say never...P.S. This is a school that had already produced a single-game 51-point outburst. In 1918, yet!...

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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...