Not just score.

That makes it even more impressive that she surpassed the 1,000 career points mark as a junior on Monday, finishing with 20 points in a 59-18 Warren win over Oil City at Warren Area High School.

“Emma has busted her butt to get here,” said Warren coach Lisa LaVan, also Emma’s mom. “She has put hours and hours in the gym and weight room. She knows it takes a ton of work to be a great basketball player. It doesn’t just happen.”

After the game, Emma was congratulated in a phone call by Warren’s last 1,000-point scorer, Margo Loutzenhiser, who also surpassed the mark as a junior. Loutzenhiser now plays at Gannon University.

Ruhlman entered the gym Monday needing 16 points and scored 12 in a 26-0 Dragons’ first quarter. She broke the mark in the second quarter.

“It means a lot to me, for sure, as an individual accomplishment and one that speaks a lot about my team,” said Ruhlman. “I’ve grown up watching my mom’s players like Katie White, Jamie Eaton, DJ Hahn, Paige Wilson, and Margo all do it, and to finally do it myself is awesome. And to do it as a junior knowing I still have a whole year left of this is great. When I was younger, probably like a 4th- or 5th-grader, I started getting really serious about basketball and I made a list of goals and things I wanted to accomplish when I finally got to high school; one of those things was to become a 1,000-point scorer, and to finally get to that milestone tonight was huge.”

Emma is exactly correct in that she is the sixth player coached by LaVan to surpass the mark, as well as the 11th female in school history. She won’t be the last.

“All individual accomplishments are a tribute to the team,” said LaVan. “Emma got here because she has had great teammates around her.”

Junior teammate Riley Childress added 18 points and senior Teagan Paris had 10 in the rout, which was Warren’s eighth straight win.

The Dragons finish the regular season at 19-3 with the playoffs around the corner.

OIL CITY (18)

Dobson 1 0-0 2, Womer 0 0-0 0, Fischli 2 1-4 5, Copley 0 0-0 0, Stahl 0 0-0 0, Sutley 0 0-0 0, Terwilliger 0 0-0 0, Manning 1 0-0 2, Marczak 2 0-0 4, Schreckengost 0 3-4 3, Wenner 0 0-0 0. Totals 7 4-8 18.

WARREN (59)

SRuhlman 1 0-0 2, MBeers 1 0-0 2, Sivak 0 0-0 0, Kuzminski 1 0-0 2, Winkle 0 0-0 0, Childress 7 1-3 18, Stuart 1 0-0 3, ERuhlman 8 3-3 20, Barney 0 0-0 0, Paris 5 0-0 10, G.Ruhlman 1 0-0 2, Munksgard 0 0-0 0, Albaugh 0 0-0 0. Totals 25 4-6 59.

3-pointers — Childress 3, Stuart, E.Ruhlman.

Oil City 0 6 1 11 — 18

Warren 26 16 12 5 — 59