Digital Harbor’s 6-foot junior forward Asia Logan can sure get off the ground.

She showed just how high this afternoon during an amusing incident at the Basketball Academy at Morgan State’s Hill Field House.

An errant shot wedged the ball between the rim and the backboard and it stuck there. Referee Nimrod Westcott, who is about 6 feet 3, tried but could not reach the ball, so Digital Harbor coach Patrick McDonald smiled and called out, “Asia, go get it.”

Logan jogged a few steps and knocked the ball loose. As high as she jumped, she could easily have grabbed the rim, so I wondered if she had ever dunked a basketball.

Turns out she has never tried. She’s more interested in continuing to develop a fine repertoire of below-the-rim skills that make her one of the area’s best players. She demonstrated that today with 21 points and 20 rebounds in the No. 8 Rams’ 43-32 win over No. 9 Catonsville.

“My teammates say, ‘Asia, you know you can get up, you know you can dunk.’ I say, ‘All right! I can’t do it. I can’t,’” she said with a laugh.

(One final note: In all fairness to Westcott, he did not get a running start as Logan did.)
--Katherine Dunn