The sign celebrating Aidan Sallie’s eradication of the Big Spring boys basketball scoring record was left in the family’s car during the first half of Tuesday’s Mid-Penn Capital collision with Bishop McDevitt. Sallie needed 25 points to eclipse the mark, and the thought was the milestone moment would occur in the waning minutes of regulation. The hypothesis proved true, as the senior banked a transition layup with 6:50 remaining in the fourth quarter, for his 25th and 26th points, surpassing the previous benchmark set by Matthew Ward in 2022.
However, the signs entered the Big Spring High School gymnasium well before the final period with Sallie clobbering the Crusaders for 22 first-half points and leaving the Bulldog faithful on the edge of their seats. Much like the sprint to retrieve the signs and Sallie’s fast first-half start, Big Spring mimicked the quick pace as a team en route to a 91-62 mauling of McDevitt. Aidan Sallie finished with 30 points while younger brother Landon scored 25 and Ayden Martinez imposed for 16.
“It’s never enough for us,” Aidan Sallie said. “I can’t tell you the amount of times we’ve gone into halftime and said, ‘It’s back to 0-0.’ We won every quarter progressively, and that’s always our goal.
But to be able to come out and punch them in the mouth, especially after we got taken down (at McDevitt) last time, we felt like we had something to prove today.” Individually, Aidan Sallie had something to prove with the pre.
