SRV Senior Guard Scores 45 in 'Star Performance'

His teammates kept giving him the ball, he kept shooting, and it kept going in.

That's how Logan Louks, a 17-year-old senior at , described his monster night Tuesday night, dropping 45 points for the men's varsity team en route to a .

"In my 25 years as coach, this is one of the top performances we've seen," Wolves coach John Raynor said. "But the school is 100 years old so it's tough to say if it's a school record, but what Logan did was absolutely a star performance."

Louks, a guard for the team, said he didn't know how many points he had until the coaching staff pulled him out in the fourth quarter.

"They took me out in the fourth and the coaches told me I had 45 (points)," Louks said Wednesday afternoon. "I didn't know. I just kept attacking, my teammates were confident in me, they fed me the ball."

The senior ended up with 11 field goals, five three-pointers and was eight of nine from the free throw line.

Louks may have had an added bit of motivation, too, as his grandparents were in the audience from Indiana.

"My father had big tears in his eyes," Kelly Louks, Logan's mother said. "We were trying to contain ourselves but we're a basketball family."

The Miami Heat drafted Logan's uncle, Scott Haffner, in the second round in 1998. Haffner would play 50 games in the NBA, 43 with the Heat and 7 with the Charlotte Hornets. Louks' grandfather also played college basketball for Butler University.

Louks said he looks up to his uncle who, after the 45-point game, called him up to congratulate him on the evening. "That was great. I look up to him and I play a lot like him," Louks said.

"We were blessed that the grandparents got to see this," Louks' mother said. "I'm just a proud parent."

Louks, who was junior class president and this year is senior class president, said he was hitting baskets all over the court, from under the basket to three-pointers. "It was a mixture of everything," he said.

"You hear people say that players are 'in the zone,'" Raynor said. "Logan could do no wrong. He was in the zone."

Raynor has coached Louks throughout his varsity career but even before that Louks had been participating in Raynor's basketball camps since third grade. So Raynor knows Louks. "He's a humble young man, gracious to his teammates," Raynor said. "He loves to compete, loves the game of basketball. It's wonderful that this recognition is coming toward this young man."

On the court, Raynor said Louks is an offensive threat, an impact player. "He can shoot the ball, take it to the hole, get on the free throw line," Raynor said. "In a league like this, it's competitive. So it's hard to break out. For Logan to be able to (score 45 points) is a credit to his mindset, his belief in himself and his hard work ethic."

Word of Louks monster night also spilled into the classroom.

"When I walked into class today they all clapped for me, were all fired up and cheering. It felt really good," he said.

Louks said he wouldn't let the success and the recognition of his 45-point night leak into his preparation for the Wolves' next contest, a home game against Granada on Friday at 7 p.m.

"I'm going to go out there and play my game, score for my team and play a team game," he said.