By LEE HILLER, Journal Sports
Benton running back Greg Manning concluded his stellar career last season as the fourth all-time scorer in Shreveport-Bossier high school football history with 480 points.
Manning’s final game on the gridiron came in the first-round of the 2023 playoffs, a 55-26 loss to Walker, in which he scored on a run and pass reception. The two touchdowns gave him 79 for his career, tied with Ike Brown of Calvary for the third most.
His biggest scoring season came in his junior season with 33 touchdowns for 198 points. After last year’s senior season, he finished with 22 rushing touchdowns and five receiving for 27 total and with three 2-point conversions for 168 points.
Manning finished as the third-leading rusher with 4,041 behind the top two scoring leaders in Jeremy Jefferson of Booker T. Washington and Calvary’s Kordavion Washington. Jefferson is just one point ahead of Washington, 532-531.
Washington is the all-time leader with 88 touchdowns, followed by Evangel receiver Abram Booty next at 83. Jefferson is fifth in touchdowns with 75 but has far more 2-point conversions than anybody with an amazing 41.
Booty’s 83 touchdowns is the most by a receiver and his two conversions put him just over the 500-point mark with 502.
Calvary’s Ike Brown scored 39 touchdowns his senior campaign in 2019 to set the school record with 234 points. Washington held the record with 196 points in his junior season of 2016 and followed that with 174 points as a senior.
Cavalier senior running back James Simon, a University of Texas commit, is tied for ninth on the list with 312 points. Simon scored 25 touchdowns his sophomore season and 24 last year as a junior.
Fair Park’s Tommy Davis, who played on the Indians’ only state championship team in 1952, is sixth on the list and has the most PAT kicks on the list with 91. He played at LSU and in the NFL and is a 1987 inductee in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
A pair of Evangel athletes are seventh and eighth on the list. Receiver Steve Parker played on the Eagles’ first state championship team his senior year in 1993 and finished with 55 touchdowns and seven conversion passes for 344 points. Running back Jacob Hester concluded his career in 2003 with one less touchdown than Parker at 54 and a conversion gave him 344 points.
Northwood running back Jimmy Taylor is tied with Simon with 52 touchdowns and 312 points.
The list of the top 10 all-time Shreveport-Bossier scorers:
Player, School (Last Year) TD 2pt 1pt FG TP
- Jeremy Jefferson, BTW (2006) 75 41 0 0 532
- Kordavion Washington, Calvary (2017) 88 2 0 0 531
- Abram Booty, Evangel (1996) 83 2 0 0 502
- Greg Manning, Benton (2023) 79 3 0 0 480
- Ike Brown, Calvary (2019) 79 0 0 0 474
- Tommy Davis, Fair Park (1952) 43 0 91 1 352
- Steve Parker, Evangel (1993) 55 7 0 0 344
- Jacob Hester, Evangel (2003) 54 1 0 0 326
- Jimmy Taylor, Northwood (1992) 52 0 0 0 312
- James Simon, Calvary (2023) 52 0 0 0 312
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