Margaret Buchert of Libertyville is this week’s Daily Herald MVP for girls basketball.

Libertyville defeated Lake Zurich in a girls basketball game Friday night.

Presenting the Daily Herald Lake County Girls Basketball All-Area Team

Fremd outlasted Libertyville 55-49 in the Class 4A Palatine sectional semifinals on Monday night. The third-seeded Vikings advanced to Thursday’s 7 p.m. championship game against No. 5 Lake Forest, while snapping No. 2 Libertyville’s 23-game winning streak.

Libertyville defeated Lake Zurich in a Class 4A girls basketball regional championship game Thursday night.

Olivia Hill of Fremd is this week’s Daily Herald MVP for girls basketball.

Kiley Szmajda had 18 points and 9 rebounds, Morgan Lung added 15 points and 11 boards, and Wauconda’s girls basketball team defeated No. 13 Harvard 69-31 in the Class 3A Deerfield regional semifinals on Tuesday night.

Kate Bullman knew how to celebrate Senior Night. Grayslake Central’s Illinois State-bound senior scored a career-high 33 points and grabbed 17 rebounds, as the Rams defeated visiting Grant 70-48 in the two teams’ regular-season finale on Wednesday night.

Margaret Buchert scored a game-high 19 points, and Libertyville’s girls basketball team stretched its winning to 20 games with a 46-38 nonconference win over host Carmel Catholic on Monday night.

Lauren Huber scored 15 points, and Libertyville’s girls basketball team defeated visiting Waukegan 73-44 on Tuesday night to clinch a share of the North Suburban Conference championship.

Mundelein’s girls basketball team is enjoying its best stretch of the season. Morgan Frank poured in a career-high 32 points, and the visiting Mustangs outlasted Waukegan 63-55 in overtime on Saturday night.

Libertyville defeated Stevenson in a girls basketball game Tuesday night.

Libertyville defeated Zion-Benton in a girls basketball game Friday night

Margaret Buchert scored a season-high 21 points, and Libertyville’s girls basketball team defeated host Waukegan 67-40 in North Suburban Conference action on Tuesday night.

Carmel Catholic’s girls basketball team made its trip to DeKalb for MLK tournament action worthwhile, winning a pair of games.

Margaret Buchert beat the buzzer with a contested hook shot from beyond the arc and, somehow, it went in, giving Libertyville a 42-39 win over visiting Lake Forest in a North Suburban Conference girls basketball showdown on Wednesday night.

Libertyville’s girls basketball team passed another test on Monday night, beating visiting Dundee-Crown 49-32 in a nonconference game for its 10th win in a row.

Avery King scored a career-high 26 points, and Stevenson’s girls basketball team defeated host Waukegan 66-43 in North Suburban Conference action on Saturday for its third win in a row.

Six games into what promises to be a highly successful varsity basketball career, Libertyville freshman Emily Fisher already has “The Pass” to her credit. She and fellow freshman Jordan Wood of Carmel Catholic have a combined 3 Division-I offers, and both players are living up to the hype.

Finally healthy again, senior point guard Margaret Bucherts has helped Libertyville’s girls basketball team put together its best stretch of the season. The Wildcats’ 58-45 win over host Lake Zurich on Wednesday night was their eighth win in a row.

Margaret Buchert scored a season-high 20 points, including four 3-pointers, and Libertyville’s girls basketball team rallied to defeat Homewood-Flossmoor 51-44 in a Chicagoland Invitational Showcase game at Benet Academy in Lisle on Saturday night.

Libertyille’s girls basketball team win its own holiday tournament on Thursday, beating Cary-Grove 54-23.

Libertyville senior Lydia Crow scored the 1,000th point of her career as the Wildcats (9-4, 3-0) posted a 50-34 triumph over Rolling Meadows at the Cats’ own Christmas tournament Monday.

Jazzlyn Linbo scored 30 points, sinking 6-of-8 shots from three-point range, and Grant’s girls basketball team opened its own holiday tournament with a 70-43 win over North Chicago on Saturday.

Freshman Lilli Burton scored a career-high 24 points, and Round Lake’s girls basketball team defeated host Richmond-Burton 46-35 in the Northern Illinois Holiday Classic on Friday night.

Morgan Frank had 20 points, 9 rebounds and 8 blocked shots, and Mundelein’s girls basketball team defeated visiting Waukegan 39-36 in North Suburban Conference action Friday night for its first win of the season.

Behind Lauren Huber’s career-high 22 points and 7 rebounds, relentless fourth-quarter pressure, and Lydia Crow’s 17 points, including a trio of fourth-quarter 3-pointers, Libertyville stunned Stevenson 57-54 in a North Suburban Conference thriller on Wednesday night.

Three days after his team snapped the longest winning streak going in Illinois high school girls basketball, Montini coach Jason Nichols considered the possibility that another winning streak would get stopped. His own team’s. It didn’t happen, however, as undefeated Montini defeated Libertyville 54-36 in Lake Zurich’s Exam Jamm on Tuesday night.

Gianna Riforgiato scored 11 points, and Antioch’s girls basketball team defeated visiting North Chicago 45-25 for its third win in a row Friday night.

Lake Forest defeated Libertyville in a girls basketball game Tuesday night.

Hersey’s girls basketball team placed five players in double figures en route to a 61-48 victory over Libertyville to win the championship of the Bison Classic at Buffalo Grove High School on Saturday.

Lydia Crow scored a game-high 15 points, sinking four 3-pointers, Abigial Frea added a season-high 10 points, and Libertyville’s girls basketball team defeated Maine South 51-29 on Friday in Buffalo Grove’s Thanksgiving Bison Classic.

Simone Sawyer scored 21 points, and Stevenson’s girls basketball team finished up the Willowbrook Thanksgiving tournament by beating the host school 66-53 on Tuesday night. The Patriots (5-1) finished 4-1 in the tourney, second behind Montini.

Libertyville’s girls basketball team did not surrender a point in the final 4:40 (7-0 run) while posting a 49-38 triumph over Buffalo Grove in the second round of the Bison Classic at Buffalo Grove High School Saturday.

Mackenzie Arden scored 18 points to lead three Wauconda players in double figures, and the Bulldogs opened their own tournament with a 51-33 win over Kaneland on Thursday night.