Maine West junior guard Allison Pearson accounted for the 5 key points (on a 3-pointer and 2 free throws in the final three minutes) in a 34-32 win over Marian Catholic at the Fremd Invite on Saturday.

Introducing the Daily Herald’s Northwest all-area girls basketball team, featuring players from the Mid-Suburban League plus St. Viator, Leyden and Maine West.

Grace Loberg scored 27 points and Margaret Whitley added 16 leading Geneva to a 65-46 win over Maine West on Monday in the Class 4A Addison Trail supersectional.

The Fremd and Maine West girls basketball teams have combined to play in 19 supersectionals since the state tourney began in 1977. On Monday, the Vikings (27-6) find themselves in a rematch with Rockford Boylan (31-1) at Dundee-Crown High School in Carpentersville while Maine West (27-3) meets Geneva (26-4) for the first time at Addison Trail High School in Addison.

The girls basketball team from Maine West advanced to the Class 4A supersectional round by defeating top-seeded Evanston 50-31 on Thursday at Niles West.

The girls basketball teams from Hersey, Fremd, Rolling Meadows and Maine West each face familiar foes in Thursday’s Class 4A sectional finals.

Junior Alisa Fallon (17 points) and sophomore Rachel Kent (14) helped lead No. 3 seeded Maine West’s girls basketball team to 44-33 triumph over No. 7 Maine South in the Class 4A Niles West semifinal. Next up for the Warrriors is a rematch with top-seeded Evanston (26-3) at 7 p.m. on Thursday.

Fremd senior Missy Adrian will play basketball at Bradley University, where she has gained pre-admittance into Bradley’s seven-year doctorate physical therapy program.

In postseason girls basketball Mid-Suburban League powers Hersey, Fremd and Rolling Meadows have all advanced to the round of 32 along with Central Suburban North champ Maine West and East Suburban Catholic Conference entry St. Viator.

Maine West’s girls basketball team dedicated another postseason success to Derril Kipp after coach Kim deMarigny’s team handled New Trier 46-38 in a Class 4A regional final in Des Plaines.

Mallory Gerber opened the girls basketball postseason on Tuesday night with a game-high 26 points and 7 rebounds to help lead the No. 7-seeded Schaumburg past No. 10 Bartlett 64-49 in the semifinals of the Class 4A Batavia regional.

Maine West’s girl basketball team put the finishing touch on its Central Suburban North title on Friday night by racing past Highland Park 79-38. The road victory gave the Warriors a 10-0 record in coach Kim deMarigny’s first season in charge of the program.

Maine West’s girls basketball team celebrated its Senior Night with a 47-22 triumph over Lake Zurich on Monday night.

Junior Emily Frasco scored 18 points and sophomore Mandy Withey added 16 as Prospect’s girls basketball team topped Wheeling 53-46 at the Jean Walker Field House in Mt. Prospect. The game marked the 1,000th point for Wheeling forward Melissa Claver, who will continue her career at Washington University in St. Louis.

Junior guard Alisa Fallon of Maine West has earned Daily Herald MVP honors for her recent high school girls basketball performances.

It took a while, but Maine West’s girls basketball team showed why it came into Monday’s nonconference game at Elk Grove with a 20-3 record. The Warriors trailed 12-11 midway through the first quarter and led 19-17 when it ended. But they outscored the Grenadiers 27-7 in the second period en route to an 82-44 triumph that marked their highest-scoring game of the season.

Conant’s Jorie Wachal scored a game-high 21 points, and none were more important than her 12-footer in the lane with six seconds left in Friday’s Mid-Suburban West girls basketball game at Barrington.

Junior Alison Fallon scored 14 points with 14 rebounds and 5 assists to help Maine West’s girls basketball team to a 19-3 record after a 67-47 win over visiting Chicago Brooks on Saturday.

Hersey girls basketball coach Mary Fendley is nearing a milestone. And the Huskies sure put in a lot of mileage on the scoreboard in Friday’s 73-35 win at Elk Grove. With their coach now just 3 wins away from 400 for her career, the Huskies produced one of their highest-scoring quarters in school history.

A tribute to Hall of Fame coach Derril Kipp, who died in July, preceded Rolling Meadows’ 45-44 triumph over Maine West at the 27th annual Subway Classic — to be renamed next year in honor of Kipp.

Schaumburg’s girl basketball team finished the first half of Mid-Suburban West play above .500 by virtue of a 55-46 victory at Barrington on Friday night.

Fremd senior Grace Tworek and Rolling Meadows senior Kyra Spiwak each led their girls basketball teams to MSL crossover wins on Tuesday.

Maine West, in its first season since the death of longtime coach Derril Kipp, won its first Dundee-Crown girls basketball holiday tournament since 1997, defeating Naperville Central.

Maine West defeated Hampshire 48-26 Wednesday in the semifinals of the Dundee-Crown Charger Classic girls basketball tournament.

The girls basketball teams from Fremd (10-2) and Hersey (12-1) advanced to the quarterfinals of the Montini Christmas Tournament with victories over St. Joseph and Batavia, respectively.

A special ceremony and moment of silence was held for the late Maine West Hall of Fame coach Derril Kipp who had brought his team to the tradition-rich Dundee-Crown Charger Classic every season since it began 34 years ago in Carpentersville. On Monday, the Warriors defeated the host school, 51-31.

Fremd took an offensive approach on the boards on Friday night and it paid off with a 52-22 win over visiting Schaumburg. The Vikings’ girls basketball team collected 21 offensive rebounds as they improved to 9-2 and 3-0 in the Mid-Suburban West while snapping a four-game winning streak by Schaumburg (6-6, 1-2).

New Trier posted 45-44 triumph over host Maine West in Tuesday’s Central Suburban League girls basketball crossover in Des Plaines. Junior guard Allison Pearson led the Wariors with a game-high 18 points.

Maine West, whose girls basketball program is full of history, played its first conference game in history against Vernon Hills on Saturday afternoon. The Cougars entered the Central Suburban North this school year. The Warriors, though, were able enter into double-digit wins with a 53-32 win at Vernon Hills.

Senior Mallory Gerber tossed in a career-high 32 points as Schaumburg’s girls basketball team posted a 62-46 nonconference triumph over host Wheaton St. Francis on Tuesday night.

Maine West honored Hall of Fame coach girls basketball Derril Kipp on Friday night in Des Plaines during a 51-27 win over Deerfield. Kipp passed away from pancreatic cancer on July 5.

Using a balanced scoring attack, Maine West’s girls basketball team weighed in as the champion of the Hoffman Estates Thanksgiving tournament on Saturday night. The Warriors got past Hampshire 49-30 to finish with a 5-0 record in the six-team tourney.

Senior Megan Gamber tossed home a career-high 23 points to help lead Buffalo Grove’s girls basketball team to a 63-51 triumph over Barrington in the Buffalo Grove Bison Classic on Saturday.

Fremd’s girls basketball team went 1-1 at the Lake Zurich Turkey Thriller, earning a 54-34 win over Cary-Grove but falling 49-42 to highly regarded Rock Island.

Here’s what to expect from the Maine West high school girls basketball team in the 2016-17 season.

Conant girls basketball team earned its first win of the season by defeating Downers Grove South 48-29 in the second round of the York Thanksgiving tournament in Elmhurst. The Cougars (1-1) were led by senior Jorie Wachal’s 28 points, which included 12 of 15 free throws and four 3-pointers.

Playing its first game since its Hall of Fame coach Derril Kipp died this past summer, Maine West cruised past Wheeling 54-37 on Monday night when the girls basketball season got underway.

One of the most influential coaches in Illinois girls basketball history will be remembered on Friday, Dec. 2 in the Maine West Spectator Gymnasium. A memorial marker and legacy wall for Hall of Fame coach Derril Kipp, who passed away on July 5 from pancreatic cancer, will be dedicated.

Kim DeMarigny has been named the new girls basketball coach at Maine West High School.

Derril Kipp was remembered for his devotion to family, sense of humor and his legacy as the fifth-winningest girls basketball coach in Illinois history Saturday at Maine West High School in Des Plaines.

Heavy hearts prevailed throughout the Illinois high school girls basketball world Tuesday with the passing of Derril Kipp, the fifth-winningest girls basketball coach in state history who helped bring Maine West High School a state title.

Tributes are pouring in from coaches, players, friends and fans on behalf of Maine West girls basketball coach Derril Kipp, 71, who is battling pancreatic cancer. Kipp is the fifth-winningest coach in Illinois girls basketball history, but his impact reaches far beyond his 788 wins, as Daily Herald sports writer John Leusch details in this report.