OK, it's nearly the end of the spring sports season, well past the time when basketballs have been locked away in school storage closets. Still, there's never a bad time for big hoops news, and this qualifies.

Oakland Mills guard Miriam McKenzie has been named one of the nation's top 30 girls high school players by MaxPreps. McKenzie, a 5-foot-8 senior, averaged 28 points and 13.6 rebounds a game for the Scorpions, and was named The Sun's Player of the Year.

McKenzie, who will play at Loyola in the fall, notched four triple-doubles and 21 double-doubles during the season, and became Oakland Mills' all-time leading scorer, narrowly falling short of becoming Howard County's all-time leading scorer.