Girls basketball: Northwest roundup
Senior forward Catherine Sherwood scored a game-high 23 points while teammate Brenda Kendziera added 12 as Prospect kicked off the York girls basketball tournament with a 57-52 win over the host Dukes.
Nikki Matters added 10 points and Taylor Will 8 for the Knights, who face Conant at 6 p.m. today when the tourney resumes in Elmhurst.
"Obviously it was both team's first games so there were some jitters," said Knights coach Ashley Graham. "I thought we came out with a lot of intensity and we really scrapped at the end. It was exciting to start the season on a positive note and get our first win."
Rolling Meadows 66, Deerfield 51: Defending Mid-Suburban League East champ Rolling Meadows kicked off play in the Turkey Thriller with a balanced scoring attack that led to its first win.
Megan King (14 points Katherine Nolan (14), Krya Spiwak (12) and Hannah Mickey (9) all reached double figures for the host Mustangs.
St. Viator 53, Dundee-Crown 51: Myia Clark's career at St. Viator got off to one heck of a start Wednesday night at the Dundee-Crown girls basketball tournament.
The freshman's game-winning layup at the buzzer gave the Lions a dramatic 53-51 win over host Dundee-Crown for St. Viator's first win under new coach Paul Missavage.
Clark, who finished with a game-high 19 points, said she was a tad bit nervous coming into her first varsity experience.
"I thought I was going to do really bad," Clark said after her buzzer-beater. "It was like a motion and we were trying to space and move the ball around. I just saw an open lane and I drove and made the shot."
Dundee-Crown (1-1) had a 51-49 lead until Kayne Stanley tied the game up with her layup with 1:06 remaining.
After a D-C miss, Missavage called for a time out with 51.8 seconds left and milked the clock to set up everything for Clark, who crossed the lane from left to right and hooked the shot off with her right hand off the right of the backboard.
"It feels good," said Clark, who wasn't the primary option. "It just turned out that way."
It also ruined a feverish second half for the Chargers, who rallied back from a 28-24 deficit behind Melissa Barker's team-high 8 points and Paige Gieseke's 7 off the bench.
"That last play did not dictate the game," D-C coach Sarah Miller said of Clark's winner. "If we had gotten a couple of offensive rebounds we allowed, those are the factors that changed this game."
The Lions, who led by as many as 7 at one point, grabbed 8 offensive rebounds.
Maddie McAteer added 9 points for Viator followed by Jess Hohlweg with 6.
- Steve Nichols
Jacobs 55, Palatine 46: Junior Ashley Shapiro (14 points), senior Katie Conklin (12 points) and senior Monica Masini (8) led the Pirates in their opening game of the Dundee-Crown tournament.
Conklin had three 3-pointers while teammate Tiana Henderson had 1.