Some basketball history was made Tuesday night and more high school basketball history may be made Friday on the local scene.

Tuesday night, New Ulm Cathedral’s Eli Anderson became the 61st player to score 1,000 career points when he scored 29 for the Greyhounds in a road game at Cleveland for 1,003 career points currently.

Anderson, who became the 21st Greyhound to crack the 1,000-career point barrier, said that his 1,000th point came on a free throw.

“There was about 13 minutes left in the game,” he said. “It felt good — there was a lot of stuff leading up to that. It has always been my goal to score 1,000 points — it was something that I have been looking forward to. I was glad that I did it this year and I am having a pretty good season.”

Anderson, a junior averaging 29 points per game this season, said that he had a good first half in the game Tuesday and needed just a few points for his 1,000th.

“I was a little nervous, but I had a whole second half to get it,” he said.

Anderson said that coming up in Cathedral basketball he had three role models.

“One big one was Jevan Wilfahrt (1,783 career points), who I would go and shoot baskets with — we played a lot together on weekends, and the same with Jake Finstad (1,176 career points and my older brother Colin,” he said. “We were always in the gym.”

Anderson said that he is honored to be in the 1,000-point club.

“It is a big accomplishment,” he said.

The Greyhounds host Martin County West Friday to end their regular season.

A second bit of basketball history may happen Friday when New Ulm High School hosts Coon Rapids in a girls basketball game to end their regular season.

Brooklyn Lewis is 18 points away from a career 2,000 and would be just the fourth New Ulm area player to crack that barrier, joining Joey Batt (2,301), Colton Benson (2,207) and Galen Holzhueter (2,053).

HAUGEN HONORED WITH SELECTION

Callie Haugen, an eighth-grader at New Ulm Middle School and a member of the New Ulm High School girls hockey team, has been selected to play in the 2026 Northstar Invitational Hockey Showcase July 17-19 at the University of St. Thomas.

The showcase tournament is for the top group of 2030 graduates from Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Manitoba, Canada.

Her head coach Derek Johnson, said that Haugen is an offensive-minded player.

“I had her playing center all year — she was my second-line center and she was number two on the team this year with 19 points,” Johnson said. “She had 10 goals and nine assists. She is very hockey smart for her age. She still has a little bit to learn at the high school level, but that will come with experience.”

Johnson said that Haugen is very “puck smart.”

“She knows what to do with the puck on her stick and she knows how to find her teammates,” he said. “She has the vision and now it is just gaining experience.”

Johnson said for Haugen’s potential that the sky is the limit for her.

“She has great hands already and she can keep sharpening those skills and that will put her at a high level,” Johnson said. “She has all the potential in the world to be one of the top girls in the state.”

NEW ULM BOYS HOCKEY SEEDED FIFTH

The Eagles boys hockey team was seeded fifth in the Section 3A tournament and will be on the road Thursday and face fourth-seeded Minnesota River.

The Eagles (14-11) and the Buldogs (10-12-3) split their two meetings this season.

New Ulm won the first meeting 2-1 in overtime at home before dropping a 5-3 road decision later.

The winner will likely face top-seeded Luverne at 6 p.m. Saturday at Don Roberts Ice Arena at Gustavus Adolphus College.

NUA WRESTLING SEEDED 2ND AT STATE

The New Ulm Area Eagles wrestling team, which recently qualified for the state team tournament for the first time since 1999, has been seeded second for this year’s state tournament, which begins Wednesday in St. Paul at the Grand Casino Arena. They will take on random draw Totino-Grace in the first round at 4 p.m., with the winner wrestling later in the semifinals at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The loser of the quarterfinals match will wrestle a consolation match at 6 p.m. Wednesday. All championship, third-place and fifth-place matches will take place Thursday, Feb. 26.