Pleasant Home Junior Center River Baldwin Scores 2,000th Career Point in Win over Greenville
MONTGOMERY – Pleasant Home High School junior River Baldwin scored 30 points and cleared 12 rebounds last Friday to lead Class 1A Pleasant Home (8-2) to a 50-38 win over Class 5A Greenville.
The 6-foot-5 junior center, who is averaging 23.6 points per game this season, reached the 2,000-point milestone of her prep career in the process to grab the AHSAA Basketball Spotlight.
Baldwin, one of just 18 girls nationwide to be selected as a finalist for the 12-member USA Under 16 National Team last summer, also followed that performance with a triple double to lead Coach Jerry Davis’ Eagles to a 43-40 win over Class 5A Carroll of Ozark in the Alabama-Florida Shootout on Monday. She finished with 22 points, 14 rebounds and 14 blocked shots. The 14 blocked shots tied Shelby Weaver of McIntosh (2012) and Gwen Jackson of Eufaula (1999) for 7th on the AHSAA all-time single-game record book list.