Presenting the 2021-2022 Fox All-Area Girls Basketball Team

Barrington’s slice of the pie was bigger than South Elgin’s Thursday in the Class 4A girls basketball sectional final at DeKalb. South Elgin had a nice size piece in the first half. But it was Barrington that came away with all the cream as the Fillies survived with a 58-51 win.

South Elgin’s 57-48 Class DeKalb 4A sectional semifinal win over Hononegah was a hard fought one, and the Storm’s Raina Yang has the bandaged forehead to prove it.The contest between the two conference champions featured five lead changes and four ties.

While cliché in nature, the old “everybody is 0-0 at the start of the playoffs” is a truthful statement.A deeper meaning, as South Elgin girls basketball coach Dan Mandernack explained, is don’t overlook anybody or uniforms might be turned in the next day.

South Elgin scored 20 points in the second quarter to cruise to a 67-35 win over Fenton in a girls basketball game on Wednesday in Bensenville.

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South Elgin girls basketball coach Dan Mandernack said his players like to refer to themselves as hyenas — “they’re fast, they’re aggressive and they trap great.”

South Elgin likes to shoot the 3-pointer, and Burlington Central made sure not to give up many open looks in a 44-34 victory.

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.

Even down “two-and-a-half” starters, South Elgin got the job done against visiting Bartlett.Caroline Croft scored 16 points, Ella Winterhalder 14, and Caitlyn Tolentino 12 as the Storm downed Bartlett, 59-38, in upstate 8 action in South Elgin. First-time starter Chloe Kmiec hit a couple of big 3-pointers in the second half and finished with 9.

Mike Miazga takes a look at some of the highlights for girls basketball teams over the Christmas break, including stops at Batavia, South Elgin and Huntley, among others.

Lake Forest made its first trip into the Dundee-Crown Komaromy Classic a good one. The Scouts reached the semifinals before losing to North Suburban Conference rival Stevenson and then recovered in the third place game, racing past South Elgin 55-35 on Thursday night.

Barrington’s girls basketball team has been participating in the Dundee-Crown Komaromy Classic for the past 10 years under hall of fame coach Babbi Barreiro. For the first time, Barreiro will bring the Fillies to Carpentersville for a championship game of the 38th annual tradition-rich tourney named for D-C’s longtime hall of fame girls basketball coach Joe Komaromy . Led on offense by junior Sophie Swanson (19 points) and sophomore Molly O’Riordan (16 points), the Fillies blitzed South Elgin 62-44 in Wednesday’s semifinal.

Once South Elgin knocked the rust off, everything went smoothly for the Storm.The Storm outscored Buffalo Grove 33-10 during the middle periods and rolled on to a 57-43 win Monday in the opening round of the Dundee-Crown Komaromy Classic in Carpentersville.

Here’s a look at where Fox area schools are headed for girls basketball holiday tournaments, including St. Charles East, Huntley and Burlington Central playing at Montini, and Dundee-Crown hosting its annual Komaromy Classic.

With its tallest player at 5-foot-9, South Elgin has relied on its pressure defense and speedy guards to offset its opponents’ height advantage. It has worked well for the Storm’s first 10 games of the season — all victories.However, Schaumburg successfully applied a strategy to counter the Storm in the third quarter of Saturday’s nonconference game in South Elgin to earn a 55-49 come-from-behind victory and give South Elgin its first loss of the season.

Here’s a look at some of the highlights of the first few weeks of the girls basketball season in the Fox area, including a 6-0 start for South Elgin and updates at Geneva, Batavia, Huntley and more.

Here’s a look at the girls basketball season in the Upstate Eight