Crawfordsville Has Had Some Dynmatic Scoring Combinations

Spending so much time the past few weeks looking at career scoring leaders in Montgomery County has uncovered enough material for a few more months worth of columns, which I hope you enjoy looking through in the coming weeks.

Today we will take a look at some of the top one-two scoring combinations for Crawfordsville High School.

Last week, we talked about Matt McCarty and his 10-for-10 3-point shooting effort against Central Catholic in the 1992-93 season. While McCarty averaged 17.7 points that year and a total of 409 points, he was not the top scorer on the team.

The top scorer the 1992-93 season was none other than Darren Haas.

Haas totaled 441 points, an average of 20.0 points a game. He ended his career with 730 points over three years. In fact, all but three of his points were scored in his junior and senior seasons giving him a scoring average of 16.5 points.

So Haas and McCarty combined to score 38.6 points (a total of 850). How does that compare to some of the other best combos?

The Haas and McCarty tandem were the best since 20 years prior when Clint Dennison and Randy Ragsdale combined for 885 points or 35.4 points a game. It took 20 years for two Crawfordsville players to hit the 400-point mark.

Dennison led the duo with 463 points for a 18.5 average. Ragsdale tossed in 422 points for 16.8 points a game. Dennison ended his career with 989 points and Ragsdale finished with 760 points.

The year before, the duo combined for 694 points and 27.7 points a game.

In 1968-69 two Crawfordsville players nearly hit 400 point each. Kirk Links ended with 461 points for 18.4 points a game, while Steve Templeton ended the season with 396 points for a 16.4 average. Combined the pair averaged 34.2 points a game as the combined for 857 points.

In the 1962-63 another pair just missed the 400-point mark. Jeff Davis ended the season with 464 points or a 17.8 average over 26 games. Bob Williams ended the season with 398 points (15.3 average). The duo combined for 862 points or 33.1 points a game.

While all those combinations were good, none compare to the duo that suited up for the Athenians during the 1967-68 season when Larry Grimes and Kelly Cochrane were a nightmare for opposing teams.

Grimes lit up the score book with 590 points, which is the third best single-season in school history (behind Matt Petty’s 625 in 1988-89 and McMarty’s 719 in 1993-94). Grimes’s average was 24.5 per game. Cochrane totaled 448 points and 18.6 points a game. The pair combined for 1,038 points or 43.2 points a game.

There were a couple of other seasons where two players put together big averages, but it was primarily due to one person carrying a big average.

During the 1993-94 season McCarty scored 719 points (31.2 per game) and teamed up with Joey Herzeg, who scored 230 points, to combine for 949 points for a 41.2 average between the two.

In the 1988-89 season Petty tallied 645 points (28.0 per game) and teamed up with Troy Noard, who had 245 points, for a combined 870 points of 37.8 average per game.

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There was a error in last week’s column about who was third in the state record book with a perfect 7-for-7 effort. I stated it was B.J. Schlicher, but it was really D.J. Byrd. My apologies go out to D.J.