Crystal Lake South holds off St. Viator

Great defense and just enough offense.

Those were the ingredients the Crystal Lake South girls basketball team utilized in defeating St. Viator 31-28 Friday night at the Dundee-Crown Thanksgiving Tournament, in a game played at CL South.

St. Viator had a chance to send the game to overtime but Jayne Stanley's 3-pointer was short and the Gators survived to remain undefeated at 3-0.

"We tell our kids no shot goes uncontested." said South coach Mark Mucha. "We did a good job of putting pressure on the shooter. Our 2-3 defense was active all night and we kept them on the perimeter."

Despite missing all 10 shots in the final quarter and scoring only 2 points, the Gators' defense came to the rescue limiting the Lions (1-1) to only 4 points during the final 8 minutes.

"We had the game at our tempo," said St. Viator coach Paul Missavage. "We didn't want to run up and down the court with South. We got the shot we wanted we just couldn't get it to fall."

In a very slow methodical game the Gators, behind 7 points from Chanel Fanter, got off to a 14-5 lead with 4:22 left in the first half.

The Lions got to within 2, 22-20, on a trey by Stanley with 1:35 left in the third quarter.

Fanter led the Gators with 12 points. Julia Bergstrom paced the Lions with 8.