Hersey’s girls basketball team did some of its finest work on the boards this weekend. And when it was over, the Huskies put two more wins on the board to cap an emotional week due to Monday’s season-ending knee injury to junior standout Meghan Mrowicki. Hersey outrebounded Deerfield, 42-17, on Saturday afternoon while running away to 66-41 nonconference triumph at the Carter Gymnasium in Arlington Heights.

Obviously, when Hersey’s state-ranked girls basketball team wins, it can’t be considered a big surprise. However, there was a small twist in how the Huskies won their biggest Mid-Suburban East game of the year, 47-44, before a near-packed Jean Walker Field House on Friday night in Mount Prospect.

On Friday in Hoffman Estates, the Strauch vs. Strauch Mid-Suburban West girls basketball match takes place again, just one week after Conant coach Todd Strauch and his Cougars edged Schaumburg coach Jacqie Strauch’s Saxons, 42-38.

Prospect senior Summer Srodulski has applied to 17 colleges but she is still not sure if will play college basketball.However, she is sure she will study engineering.On Monday, it was Knights coach Matt Weber and assistant Antonio Gardner who designed a well-scripted game plan for South Elgin (17-4) and the 6-foot-1 Srodulski obliged with a game-high 26 points (6-of-8 free throws) to help lead the Knights (16-4) to a 56-49 triumph at the MLK Showdown at Batavia High School.

Hersey girls basketball coach Mary Fendley struggled to find the words to describe her emotions on Monday.A member of the Illinois High School Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame with 501 career victories, Fendley has experienced nearly everything in the sport.But Fendley was battling her emotions following a potentially serious right knee injury suffered by junior guard Meghan Mrowicki late in the second quarter of Monday’s 73-37 loss to Fenwick in the 32nd Annual Coach Derril Kipp Hoopsfest at Benet.

In the final two minutes of the third quarter, Katy Eidle was knocking down 3-pointers like bowling pins. Hersey’s senior sharpshooter hit three in a row in a span of 98 seconds for a 9-0 run that all but sealed a 65-36 Saturday afternoon matinee victory over visiting Batavia at the Carter Gymnasium.

Due to a broken nose she suffered at the Dundee-Crown tournament two weeks ago, Gwen Adler is double masked wearing a face guard and a COVID mask.On Thursday night, the Barrington sophomore put in a double-double performance for Barrington’s girls basketball team.

One of the Northwest suburbs’ girls basketball teams currently on the biggest roll is Maine South, which has won eight of its last nine games through Monday.

From her days at Rolling Meadows High School when she was a three-sport standout, Hersey girls basketball coach Mary Fendley has always been a household name in the local high sports world. On Tuesday night at the house of 2000 Class 4A state champion Buffalo Grove, Fendley placed herself in some championship company herself. With the Huskies' 55-33 victory over the Bison on Tuesday night, Fendley joined at least 28 other girls basketball coaches in Illinois who have won 500 games according to the IHSA record books. Fendley's 24-year record at Hersey now stands at 500-204.

At one point as she dribbled the basketball across the half-court line, Hersey point guard Katy Eidle shouted out for her team to run a play called ‘Wisconsin’. Seems a little funny because Eidle is a Michigan recruit. But there’s nothing funny for opponents when it comes to stopping Eidle. Especially on Saturday at Glenbrook South, as the 6-foot junior put up a career-high 34 points, bettering her previous high of 32 as a freshman against Bartlett. Classmate Meghan Mrowicki added 20 points with 13 rebounds (8 offensive) as Hersey (17-3), ranked No. 3 in Class 4A, rolled past the Titans 67-48 at the Titan Dome in Glenview.