ROCKY HILL – There were two signs at the top of the Rocky Hill High School bleachers Monday night that marked the countdown to 1,000 career points.
One was for Rocky Hill’s senior point guard Kelsey LaMay. She needed 24 points. The other was for her senior teammate, Katie Harding, who needed 17.
The signs were updated throughout Monday’s game against Coventry, last year’s Class S state champion. Rocky Hill was losing early, so there was more concern about that than the anticipated milestones but then the Terriers went on a second-quarter run, with LaMay and Harding in the middle of it, to take the lead.
Harding got her 1,000th first on a layup early in the fourth quarter. The game was stopped, everybody cheered. Then about four minutes later, LaMay got hers, on a 3-pointer, and the game was stopped again and everybody cheered.
Katie Harding gets her 1,000th point for Rocky Hill vs Coventry Monday night #ctgb pic.twitter.com/usV4FBr5kx
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The best part for Harding and LaMay and their teammates was that Rocky Hill won, 62-56, rallying from an early 13-point deficit to stay unbeaten at 5-0.
“I think it’s pretty cool,” said LaMay, who led Rocky Hill in scoring with 26 points. “I wouldn’t want to do it with anyone else.”
Harding, who will play at Western New England College next year, had 22 points. Both players hit four 3-pointers.
One 1,000-point scorer in a game is special but two is rare. In 2024, the Conard girls basketball team had two players approaching the milestone in the same game – junior Emily Knowles got it, but her teammate Callie Cosgrove fell one point short.
“It’s unbelievable,” Rocky Hill coach Pete Asadourian said. “For them to get it on the same night like they did is something special. I’m proud to be a part of it.”
And a few minutes later, her Rocky Hill teammate Kelsey LaMay got her 1,000th point and Rocky Hill beat Coventry 62-56 #ctgb pic.twitter.com/7A54ynEqWN
— Lori Riley (@lrileysports) December 30, 2025
Coventry (3-1) charged out early and took a 22-9 lead early in the second quarter. But Rocky Hill recovered and started to chip away at the lead. Harding, who had four 3-pointers, hit a 3 with about two minutes left in the first half to tie the score at 24. LaMay’s subsequent 3 gave the Terriers their first lead 27-24 with 1:38 left and Rocky Hill led 32-25 at halftime.
Coventry, led by Danielle Wheeler’s 20 points, rallied and cut the lead to three, 49-46 on a putback by sophomore post Hailey Mayo (14 points) but LaMay and Harding had 11 of Rocky Hill’s 13 fourth-quarter points to put the game away.
“Katie, she’s real quiet, great kid,” Asadourian said. “She’s our go-to. She’s like a quiet assassin. Kelsey is just our motor. She keeps it going for us. She’s got a lot of energy.
“We have the most unselfish squad this year – those two girls are very unselfish. We knew they were approaching (1,000 points), everyone knew they were approaching it but we didn’t highlight it. We said before, ‘We know there’s a milestone possibly coming at us – you go out and execute our game plan, you guys are going to be able to get the milestone,’ and they did that.”
Rocky Hill 62, Coventry 56
Coventry: Ava Viera 0 1 1, Reese Jeamel 7 2 16, Jianna Foran 0 5 5, Danielle Wheeler 6 3 20, Hailey Mayo 7 0 14. Totals: 20 11 56.
Rocky Hill: Kelsey LaMay 8 6 26, Katie Harding 9 0 22, Madisyn Aurigemma 1 2 4, Ariana Daley 1 0 3, Isabella Tucker 1 0 2, Anna Gau 2 0 5. Totals: 22 8 62.
Coventry 18 7 16 15 – 56
Rocky Hill 7 25 17 13 – 62
Records: Coventry, 3-1; Rocky Hill, 5-0.