All-Time PSL Single-Game Scoring Leaders
Cooley High’s Larry Fogle is the all-time PSL single-game scoring leader, having poured in 73 points February 4, 1972 against Cody High School. Fogle played just three quarters of the game. (Canisius College photo)
All lists have been compiled by Bill Hoover Jr.
Top All-Time Single-Game Scorers in PSL History
Larry Fogle, Cooley 73 (February 4, 1972)
Cliff “Chain” Williams, Southwestern 61 (February 15, 1963)
Derrick Hall, Mackenzie 56 (December 2, 1988)
Demetreus Gore, Chadsey 55 (March 2, 1984)
Ralph Simpson, Pershing 55 (Feb 2, 1968)
Paul Williams, Renaissance 55 (February 27, 2007)
** Dwayne Rogers, Cass Tech 54 (1978-79 season)
Larry LaVercombe, Cooley 53 (December 18, 1953)
George “Iceman” Gervin, King 53 (February 10, 1970)
Katu Davis, Northern 53 (January 4, 1991)
Corperryale “Manny” Harris, Redford 52 (December 19, 2006)
Larry Fogle, Cooley 51 (January 4, 1972)
Emmanuel “Hard Work” Bibb, Denby 51 (February 2, 1990)
Corperryale “Manny” Harris, Redford 50 (December 27, 2006)
Keith Appling, Pershing 49 (March 28, 2009)
Marvin Mitchell, Chadsey 49 (February 22, 1961)
David DeJulius, East English Village 49 (January 13, 2018)
Ralph Simpson, Pershing 48 (December 20, 1967)
Joe Cosey, Northwestern 48 (February 5, 1971)
Stuart House, Denby 48 (January 23, 1976)
Antoine “The Judge” Joubert, Southwestern 48 (March 13, 1982)
Danny Montgomery, Kettering 48 (March 1, 1992)
Allante Coward, Southeastern 48 (Circa Feb 2016) (Highest ever for a sophomore)
Greg Elliott, East English Village 48 (December 2016)
Pierre Brooks II, Frederick Douglass 48 (January 8, 2019) (Tied highest ever for a sophomore)
(* -The February 28, 2007, Detroit Free Press reported that the Renaissance record was 62 by Paulding. On January 31, 2008, Mark White, the Renaissance head coach during Paulding’s high school career, told Hoover in a phone conversation that 44 was his highest game.)
(**- I have NOT found this game in the newspapers. An end-of-the season story about the 1978-79 campaign reported that DeWayne Rogers (actually Dwayne) of Cass Tech scored 56 vs. Detroit Benedictine, and hit 35 two other times. Further, Willie Ogletree, the longtime Cass Tech scorekeeper says that Dwayne Rogers also scored 54 that same season in a crossover game loss at Murray-Wright, against the Pilots, who were undefeated and ranked number in one in the State going into the State tournament. I did full re-read of game accounts from this season in the Detroit News, but I found no record of either game. I totally trust Ogletree and feel strongly about the Detroit Free Press who wrote about the Benedictine scoring outburst, but until I can further substantiate it, I’ll leave it asterisked. I’m still digging. On February 12, 2021, Dwayne Rogers told me it was 54 against Benedictine at Cass Tech, during November or December of his junior year, which was the 1978-79 season. The Murray-Wright game was that same season. He does not recall how many points he scored that game, but said it could have been 40 plus.)
(***-A Detroit News story reported that DeMarco Page of Osborn scored 52 points vs. Finney on January 12, 2010. Cameron Nichols of PSLbasketball.com states that total was really either 37 or 39 points. We are still fact checking.)
PSL All-Time Single-Game Scoring Recordholders
(In other words, they held the record.)
Larry Fogle, Cooley 73 (February 4, 1972 — 46 seasons and counting)
Cliff “Chain” Williams, Southwestern 61 (February 15, 1963 — 10 seasons)
Larry LaVercombe, Cooley 53 (December 18, 1953 — 9 seasons)
Arnold “Skip” Domke, Mackenzie 43 (February 3, 1948 — 6 seasons)
Earl Meyers, Eastern 34 (circa March 7, 1932 — 16 seasons)
Tommy Roxborough, Eastern 28 (1909-10 season [still researching exact date] — 22 seasons)
 (*On January 25, 1946, Alfred “Obbie” Friedman of Central scored 33 versus Redford. This was reported and often incorrectly sited as the record prior to Domke.)