After losing twice to Nazareth during the regular season, Carmel Catholic stunned the top-ranked Roadrunners 43-39 Saturday night for the Class 3A girls basketball state championship at Redbird Arena.

Class 3A power Nazareth took down Class 4A No. 1 Stevenson, 45-33, in nonconference girls basketball action Friday night.

Nazareth defeated Carmel 58-47 Saturday to win the East Suburban Catholic Conference girls basketball tournament.

Lenee Beaumont didn’t get too discouraged when she saw two 3-point shots swirl in and out Monday.

With three sophomores in the starting lineup, the future is exceptionally bright for the Nazareth girls basketball program.As it turns out, so is the present.Continuing to raise the bar despite their youth, the Roadrunners won their 13th game in a row with a hard-fought 51-37 nonconference victory over Willowbrook Thursday before a big crowd in La Grange Park.

Nazareth junior Gracie Christensen backpedaled after swishing her third consecutive 3-pointer and turned to teammate Grace Workman, who just smiled and nodded.It was that kind of morning for the Roadrunners, who raced out to a 17-0 lead and never looked back in beating Huntley 45-27 on Thursday on the final day of the Montini Christmas Tournament.

Nazareth’s Danielle Scully didn’t have the easiest assignment on Tuesday.The 6-foot-1 sophomore was tasked with trying to score points against Burlington Central senior center Taylor Charles, a 6-foot-2 Princeton commit.With Charles dominating in the lane, Scully was forced to shoot mostly from the perimeter and the results were not good at first as she started 1-for-9.But Scully kept firing and eventually found the mark, sinking two key shots down the stretch as the Roadrunners pulled out a 32-28 victory on the second day of the truncated Montini Christmas Tournament.

Nazareth relied on a big scoring binge in the second and third quarters to pull out a 57-41 girls basketball victory over Carmel Wednesday nigh.

Here’s a look at the girls basketball season in the East Suburban Catholic Conference.