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

Willowbrook had an up close look at the growing Emily Fisher hype train. The Warriors were on the unfortunate end of Fisher putting her imprint on a stunning Libertyville comeback in the 32nd Annual Coach Derril Kipp Hoopsfest in Lisle.

Stevenson defeated Libertyville 43-39 in a girls basketball game on Saturday.

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

Every game is a good game in the North Suburban Conference and it’s not that easy to come away with a victory even if you’re unbeaten. Stevenson’s girls basketball team was starting its second time around in league play and knew that host Lake Zurich would give it a battle to the very end. What the Patriots didn’t realize that they would be playing beyond regulation, and it took a couple overtimes to pull out the victory as Stevenson got past a stingy Lake Zurich 63-57 in 2 OTs in Lake Zurich on Tuesday night.

Emily Fisher collected 8 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks to power Libertyville to a 43-30 victory over Lake Forest in North Suburban Conference girls basketball action Thursday night.

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.

In one of the all-time great finishes of the 38-year-old Dundee-Crown Komaromy Classic, it was two of the youngest players on the floor who teamed up to bring Stevenson’s girls basketball team its first title in Carpentersville since the Patriots’ glory teams of the 1990s. With the clock winding down inside 10 seconds, sophomore guard Kendell Williams found freshman guard Nisha Musunuri in the corner. Musunuri dribbled quickly to the middle of the lane and tossed up a 5-footer with 4.9 seconds left which proved to be the winning basket in the Patriots’ thrilling 53-51 triumph over Barrington (12-5).

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.