Clark, St. Viator nip Dundee-Crown

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 of the season.

Clark, who finished with a game-high 19 points, said she was 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 St. Viator called for time 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.