Scouting: Streamwood supersectional
By John Lemon
jlemon@dailyherald.com
Class 4A Streamwood supersectional
Geneva (28-3) vs. Rockford Boylan (32-0)
When: 7 p.m. Monday
Coaches: Sarah Meadows, Geneva; Paul Perrone, Rockford Boylan
How they got here: Geneva defeated Schaumburg 62-37 and Batavia 59-46 to win the Schaumburg regional; defeated Wheaton North 58-30 and Wheaton Warrenville South 48-31 to win the Lake Park sectional. Boylan defeated Huntley 43-20 and Harlem 50-36 to win the Huntley regional; defeated Cary-Grove 59-36 and Rockton Hononegah 51-38 to win the Dundee-Crown sectional.
Scouting Geneva: The defending Class 4A state champions have won 13 straight games, and only one of them - a 52-43 win over Batavia - has the margin been under double digits. "We are right in the position we want to be," Meadows said. Senior guard Margaret Whitley leads a balanced scoring attack at 13 points a game including a 24-point night in the sectional finals when she made 8 of 13 from the 3-point arc. She was the fourth different player to lead Geneva in scoring in the postseason, starting with Stephanie Hart's 17 points against Schaumburg, Maddy Yelle's 15 against Batavia and Lindsay Blackmore's 15 against Wheaton North. Perhaps it is Madison Mallory or Brie Borkowicz's turn to lead the way Monday for Geneva, a balanced, team-first squad playing in its seventh supersectional in the last 10 years. Geneva is 3-3 in those first six supersectionals, including a 60-41 win over Boylan in the 2014 supersectional at Judson University.
Scouting Rockford Boylan: Like Geneva, the Titans play outstanding defense. After forcing 30 turnovers in a sectional semifinal win over Cary-Grove, Rockford Boylan held Hononegah to 22 percent shooting from the field until late in the game. Boylan, who lost in the supersectionals to Fremd last year and has never won a state trophy, was led by sophomore forward Peyton Kennedy's 18 points in the sectional title win. Senior McKenzie Brown averages 15 points a game.
Advancement: The winner plays the winner of the Hersey supersectional between Lake Zurich (20-10) and Maine West (30-1) in the state semifinals Friday night at Illinois State University in Normal.