With 37 points on Tuesday night, Alissa Pili became Alaska’s highest-scoring girls basketball player in Class 4A history.
Pili, a 6-foot senior for the Dimond Lynx, entered the game at West High needing six points to match the previous record of 2,290, set in 1994 by Brit Jacobson of Chugiak.
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Her performance in Dimond’s 64-43 victory over West gives her 2,321 career points. She still has six regular-season games and potentially several postseason games to add to her total.
Alaska’s all-time leading scorer is Mike Cronk, a former Northway star who racked up 3,564 points in four seasons from 1984-87.
There is no official record-keeping group for Alaska high school sports. Van Williams, who writes a blog for the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame, said Pili’s record is considered a 4A record because there are no comprehensive girls basketball scoring records for lower classifications.
Pili was widely recruited by college teams before signing a letter of intent with USC of the Pac-12 Conference.