Presenting the 2021-2022 Fox All-Area Girls Basketball Team

Grace Sullivan and Mia Gillis formed an unbeatable combination on Monday night. Sullivan scored 16 points, grabbed 12 rebounds, dished out 4 assists and blocked 4 shots, while Gillis contributed 13 points and 12 rebounds to carry Carmel to a 49-37 victory over Sycamore in the Class 3A Dundee-Crown Supersectional.

With 15 points in the fourth quarter alone, Shannon Blacher was leading Montini’s charge from 15 down in the final frame against Sycamore in the Class 3A Kaneland Sectional final.But her layup attempt at the buzzer in traffic didn’t fall and the Spartans held on for a 57-56 win for the first sectional title in school history.

The Belvidere North girls basketball team came back from a seven-point halftime deficit to knock off Kaneland 39-36 in the Class 3A Rochelle regional semifinal Tuesday.

Geneva’s 13-point lead with 5:33 left against Sycamore evaporated to two in the closing seconds as the Spartans seemed poised for a second comeback win against the Vikings this year.But Caroline Madden came up with a steal to keep the Spartans from tying or winning the game, then Rilee Hasegawa sunk a pair of free throws to seal a 62-58 win on Thursday in the regular-season finale for both teams.

While cliché in nature, the old “everybody is 0-0 at the start of the playoffs” is a truthful statement.A deeper meaning, as South Elgin girls basketball coach Dan Mandernack explained, is don’t overlook anybody or uniforms might be turned in the next day.

McKenzie Schueler drained a 3-pointer with less than two minutes left in the fourth quarter to break a tie and propel the Kaneland girls basketball team to a 39-34 win over La Salle-Peru in an Interstate 8 Conference battle Wednesday.

Sycamore senior guard Faith Feuerbach scored 13 points, Carlsen tossed in 12, Ella Shipley added 11 points and Evyn Carrier had 10 points in a thrilling 49-47 nonconference girls basketball win over Fremd in Sycamore Saturday.

Playing for the first time since its first loss of the season, the Sycamore girls basketball team went off against Interstate 8 foe Kaneland on Tuesday, scoring 24 of the first 29 points and knocking off the Knights, 42-32.

Taylor Seaton's impact on the offensive end could perhaps best be found along the baseline and around the rim. Kaneland's senior returned from a concussion Friday, and made her presence felt during Kaneland's 52-39 win over Ottawa on Friday.