Introducing the Daily Herald’s Northwest girls basketball all-area team, featuring players from the Mid-Suburban League plus St. Viator, Leyden and Maine West.

The tag-team effort between Jordyn Hughes and Kaylen Dickson helped push Warren’s girls basketball team to a 63-41 victory over Prospect in the Class 4A regional championship game at Buffalo Grove.

Prospect’s girls basketball team won for the third time this season over Mid-Suburban League champ Hersey to advance to Thursday’s championship game of the Class 4A regional at Buffalo Grove High School. Emily Frasco (19 points) and Ashley Adams (12) were top scorers for the No. 8-seeded Knights, who will play top-seeded Warren on Thursday for the title.

Senior Emily Frasco scored a game-high 19 points to help Prospect’s girls basketball team top host Conant 63-59 on Tuesday in the Mid-Suburban League third-place crossover.

Rolling Meadows grabbed a share of the Mid-Suburban East title with a 69-56 win over visiting Prospect on Friday night as senior guard Melissa Spiwak led the Mustangs with 19 points.

Palatine’s girls basketball team came up with an important win in Mid-Suburban West play on the road Tuesday. The division-leading Pirates topped Schaumburg 46-28, meaning a victory at home Friday against Hoffman Estates clinches an outright championship for Palatine.

Senior Anja Jacobsen’s 20-foot 3-pointer at the buzzer lifted Palatine past host Barrington 35-32 on Friday night and it gave the Pirates sole possession of first place in the Mid-Suburban West. Palatine (18-7) improved to 6-2, one game better than Conant and Fremd who each stand at 5-3.

Ashley Adams scored 12 points and teammate Sara Biesterfeldt had 10 to help Prospect’s girls basketball team in a 52-39 victory over host Hersey in Mid-Suburban East play Tuesday.

Senior guard Tayler Williams scored a game-high 20 points with five 3-pointers to help Hoffman Estates stun seven-time defending Mid-Suburban West girls basketball champion Fremd 49-39. Junior Raven Wilson added 13 points and sophomore Nora Thomas 7 for the Hawks

Barrongton girls basketball coach Babbi Barreiro got her 400th career win in dramatic fashion by handing Fremd its first loss in the Mid-Suburban West since the 2012-13 season. Taylor Thompson scored 26 points to lead the Fillies to the 44-40 win in Palatine.

Fremd’s girls basketball team snapped a two-game losing streak with a 62-49 win over Prospect on Tuesday night at the Jean Walker Field House in Mt. Prospect. Freshman Ruthie Montella scored 18 points to lead the Vikings.

St. Viator senior Myia Clark (game-high 17 points) became the second Lions girls basetball player to reach 1,500 career points during a 54-42 with over visiting Prospect on Thursday night in Arlington Heights.

With a 57-47 win over Cary-Grove, Rolling Meadows’ girls basketball team will play Vernon Hills for the title of the Libertyville Tournament at 2 p.m. Friday.

Conant’s girls basketball team built a 29-24 halftime lead and prevailed 44-35 over Rolling Meadows at the Libertyville tournament on Wednesday while Maine West advanced to the championship of the Komaromy Classic at Dundee-Crown High School with a 63-40 win over Fenwick.

Palatine’s girls basketball team won its first game at the 34th annual Bill Neibch Falcon Classic with a 54-17 victory over Elgin.

Rolling Meadows used a 14-0 run early in the second half to take command in a 53-44 Mid-Sububran East girls basketball win over Prospect in Mt. Prospect on Thursday night.

Prospect’s girls basketball team built a 30-19 lead at intermission and then held off host Buffalo Grove for a 57-55 triumph on Friday night. The win raised the Knights’ record to 7-2 and 3-0 in the Mid-Suburban East, where they are tied for first with Rolling Meadows (8-4, 3-0). The Knights will host the Mustangs on Thursday night.

The undefeated Maine West girls basketball team has earned the top seed for the 35th Annual Komaromy Classic Tournament at Dundee-Crown.

Trailing 25-16 at half, Prospect’s girls basketball team couldn’t have had a more productive intermission break. “We were in the locker room and had a motivating talk,” said Knights senior guard Margherite Pettenuzzo. Things came together quite nicely for the Knights, who rallied for a 44-42 triumph over visiting Hersey at the Jean Walker Field House in Mt. Prospect.

Hoffman Estates senior guard Tayler Williams connected for a career-high four 3-pointers en route to a game-high 14 points to help lift the Hawks to a 39-33 nonconference girls basketball triumph over visiting West Chicago on Tuesday night.

Senior Emily Frasco scored a game-high 25 points with three 3-pointers to lead Prospect’s girls basketball team to a 62-51 victory in Friday’s Mid-Suburban League East opener at Elk Grove on Friday night. Jessica Kowalcyzk added 12 points for the Knights (4-2, 1-0) followed by Abbey Danciu (8), Ashley Adams (6) and Margherite Pettenuzzo (5).

Maine West’s impressive start continued on Tuesday night in Des Plaines. After winning its five games at the Hoffman Estates Pilgrim Classic by an average of 52.8 points, the Warriors girls basketball team posted a 60-35 win over Glenbrook South, which entered the game with a 5-0 record.

Rolling Meadows’ girls basketball team earned its first win of the season on Friday night, posting a 74-51 decision over host Lake Zurich (0-2) in the Turkey Thriller tournament. The Mustangs (1-1) were led by senior Melissa Spiwak’s career-high 20 points while junior Alexa Davis added a career-high 18.

Scoring balance was at its best for Prospect’s girls basketball team on Thursday night in the third round of the York Thanksgiving tournament. The Knights’ top six scorers ranged from 5 to 11 points and they never trailed in a 54-32 win over Conant.

Here’s what to expect from the high school girls basketball teams of the Mid-Suburban East this season.

Prospect senior Emil Frasco will help lead the Knights in her fourth varsity season and then move on to a collegiate career at Alabama-Birmingham under Blazers coach Andy Norton.

A balanced attack in which 14 of 15 girls made it into the scoring column led Maine West’s girls basketball team to a 65-26 victory over Proviso West in the opening round of the fifth annual ‘Pilgrim Classic’ Thanksgiving tournament at Hoffman Estates High School.

Prospect defeated St. Francis in a York Thanksgiving girls basketball tournament game.