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ERIN LOGUE

FOXBURG — Options?

Erin Logue had options.

“No choice,” Logue said, “was a wrong choice.”

For a point guard like Logue, a senior who just concluded her career for the A-C Valley girls basketball team, having weapons around her made her job easier.

And her assist numbers soar.

Logue finished the season with 120 assists, which was good enough for 11th in Pennsylvania according to the figures compiled by the website MaxPreps.

It was also good enough to rank her 200th nationally by the site.

“For me, that’s what I want,” Logue said. “I like to see other players get points because of a play I create.”

Logue has created plenty of opportunities for her teammates during her career, especially the last two seasons.

Logue was responsible for nearly half of the points the Falcons scored this season, either through her own baskets or her assists.

The 5-foot-6 Logue also added a scoring punch of her own, averaging 9.2 points per game.

A-C Valley, which made the District 9 Class A playoffs and finished with a winning record for the first time since the 1993-94 season, had five players score 130 or more points this year.

The leading scorer, Morgan Cratty, averaged 9.5 points per game.

A-C Valley coach Dave Sherman credits his burgeoning talent for that distribution, but also Logue for putting them in position to succeed.

“That’s what you want from your point guard,” Sherman said. “She runs the offense and the talent around her made her better and she made the team better, if you understand what I’m saying. The team was able to take advantage of her ability. It was very symbiotic.”

Logue has grown up as a point guard.

Her father, Mike, is the girls basketball coach at Eisenhower High School in Russell.

Since Erin Logue could hold and dribble a basketball, she has looked to pass it and create plays with it.

“She’s sort of been conditioned to be a prototypical point guard,” Sherman said. “It’s always been her role and it’s always been the one she’s been best at. We could be crazy at times, but Erin was the calming influence. She’s pretty level.”

Logue said she never felt the pressure of running the show.

“I had a great team around me and Mr. Sherman had a lot of faith in me,” Logue said.

Logue is proud of her lofty assist numbers.

She’s most proud of her low turnover number.

Logue’s turnover-to-assist ration this season was nearly 3-to-1.

“My dad always said that’s what you want to have,” Logue said.

Logue said the success the team had this season is what she will remember the most.

“This was definitely huge for all of us,” Logue said. “When we were freshmen, we made the playoffs, but we had a losing record, then the last two seasons we kind of struggled. To finish our high school careers and see the program come so far, it’s exciting. I know we can’t wait to see where the program goes from here.”

Logue will attend Grove City College in the fall and hopes to make the women’s basketball team there.

If she doesn’t play, she said she is OK with that.

“It’s pretty tough thinking I may not play again, but I’m confident I can make the team,” Logue said. “I’m going to work hard, try out, and see what happens.”

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