Emily Fisher finished with 7 blocked shots and 16 rebounds to help lead Libertyville past Prospect 51-35 in the Class 4A girls basketball regional final at Libertyville Thursday.

With a convincing 51-28 triumph over visiting Prospect on Wednesday night, the Mid-Suburban League girls basketball championship plaque is back at Barrington High School.

St. Viator senior Joy Bergstrom, a four-year starter, became the Lions’ all-time leading girls basketball scorer last week. With her 18 points in a 60-45 loss to Carmel, Bergstrom reached 1,696 for her four seasons, including her junior campaign which was cut in half due to COVID-19.

Prospect defeated Rolling Meadows 57-46 in a Mid-Suburban East girls basketball game Wednesday night, capping a 9-1 conference run which made the Knights co-champions with Hersey.

Jessica Reizer picked up a special feeling on her long-range shots during warmups on Wednesday night.

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.

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.

For the first 23 minutes of Friday night’s girls basketball game at the Jean Walker Field House in Mount Prospect, Buffalo Grove made sure the outcome against host Prospect was in doubt. But the Knights, who have proved to never doubt themselves when trailing, finished strong again. Coach Matt Weber’s girls closed out the final nine minutes on a 17-2 run to post a 44-25 win in the Mid-Suburban East matchup.

When teams return to Mid-Suburban League girls basketball action on Friday night, Fremd and Prospect will each hold one-game leads in their respective West and East divisions. And the two teams will hardly be void of momentum. They are the only two from the conference who are coming off championship runs at holiday tournaments.

One day after hitting 11 3-pointers to open the Blenner Classic tourney at St. Viator on Monday with a win over Resurrection, Prospect’s girls basketball team came back with double-digit field goals from long distance again on Tuesday. The Knights (11-2) connected for 10 3-pointers from eight players en route to a 60-19 triumph over Grayslake Central.

Girls basketball teams from the Northwest suburbs will be looking for championships at three holiday tournaments that begin on Monday of next week.

To overcome a 9-point deficit late in the fourth quarter was a tremendous achievement in itself for Prospect. To do it on the road against Hersey, the state’s top-ranked Class 4A team, made the Knights’ victory even sweeter. Prospect used a 13-1 run in the final minutes at Ken Carter gymnasium in Arlington Heights to take the lead, then held on in the final seconds for a 50-47 Mid-Suburban East girls basketball win.

Unlike 12 months ago, the vans carrying girls basketball teams will be back on the roads again this winter. Area teams are back in action for holiday tournaments after missing out last December due to COVID-19.

If you’re looking for a definition of a grind-it-out win, Prospect’s girl basketball team offered up a great example in its exciting 58-52 nonconference triumph over visiting Glenbrook South on Tuesday night at the Jean Walker Field House in Mount Prospect.

Winter is right around the corner but Summer was definitely still in form for Prospect’s girls basketball team on Tuesday night at St. Viator. The Knights’ Summer Srodulski called her team’s 54-47 non conference triumph one of its biggest of the young season and the senior forward also had one of her best games.

When Glenbrook North won the Maine East Thanksgiving tourney last week, among the smiling faces for the Spartans was assistant coach Steve Weissenstein. Yes, Weissenstein the former hall of fame Glenbrook South girls basketball coach.

Here’s a look at the girls basketball season in the Mid-Suburban East