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Paul McNeil Jr. follows 71-point performance with his 2,000th point

Richmond (North Carolina) star has a milestone encore to his record setting effort in a victory over Pine Forest

Gary Adornato

ROCKINGHAM, NORTH CAROLINA – You would think that there was not much Richmond's Paul McNeil Jr. could do to top his 71-point performance against Lee County, on Tuesday, which broke a 74-year old scoring record for most points in a North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) boys high school basketball game, but the North Carolina State recruit found a way.

Just 24 hours removed from the record, Richmond hosted Pine Forest in the annual Jason Norton Classic, named for a longtime coach and athletic director who worked at both schools, and McNeil poured in 37-points, including the 2,000th of his high school career, as the Raiders rolled to a 79-33 victory.

McNeil came into the contest just 12 points shy of the personal milestone and surpassed the mark with a three-point jumper, late in the first quarter, to move to 2,002 points for his career. By night's end, he was at 2,025 points.

The silky smooth senior is now averaging better than 33-points per game this season.

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Gary Adornato
GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University, and in 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.

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