Grayslake North junior forward Peyton Gerdes put on quite a show Friday night, pouring in 22 of her team’s 30 points in a girls basketball game against visiting Grayslake Central. But GC earned the right to enjoy a curtain call after staging a 36-30 victory in Northern Lake County Conference action.

Amari Cole tallied 16 points, 11 rebounds and blocked 4 shots to lift Round Lake to a 52-43 girls basketball win over Wauconda on Thursday night.

Grayslake North standout Peyton Gerdes made some history recently. Gerdes passed the 1,000-career point barrier in the Knights’ recent win against Antioch.

MaCalyn Flores led the way for the Grant girls basketball team with 23 points, 8 steals and 8 assists in a 73-50 victory over visiting Antioch in a Northern Lake County Conference game on Tuesday night in Fox Lake.

Grayslake Central’s recent run of success includes five straight Northern Lake Country Conference championships in girls basketball.The Rams, under the direction of Steve Ikenn, have dominated the conference over the last six seasons, posting a 46-1 record which includes a 45-game winning streak. The impressive streak was snapped this season, signaling a chance for another team to make a run at the title.Enter unheralded Round Lake.

The Libertyville girls basketball team is flying high with some big-time competition awaiting it over the weekend.

During coaching great Frank Mattucci’s run at Stevenson, the Patriots’ girls basketball teams were synonymous with two things. Winning and Willis Wudtke. The wiry and always affable Wudtke, who died just before Christmas at the age of 67, was the longtime official scorer for the Patriots’ girls program, later moving on to Grayslake Central when former Stevenson assistant coach Steve Ikenn took over the Rams — his omnipresence greatly felt in both programs for the last three-plus decades.

The Round Lake girls basketball team is on a nice roll. The Panthers barreled into 2022 with a robust 12-3 record after going 4-1 and taking second at the 16-team Northern Illinois Holiday Classic.

Grayslake Central’s girls basketball team needed a good way to start off the new year. The Rams took nearly two and a half quarters to find it and when they did, it was just what they needed to pull out a victory, as they rallied from a 9-point third quarter deficit and beat host Antioch 37-29 in a Northern Lake County Conference game on Tuesday night.

With the exception of a few strong surges by host Grant, the Round Lake girls basketball team was in control Tuesday night in Fox Lake. Grant did pull to within 27-22 early in the third quarter, but that was as close as the Bulldogs would get the rest of the way as Round Lake pulled away for a 58-46 Northern Lake County Conference victory.