No. 3-seeded Hersey (27-8), led by Michigan-bound Katy Eidle’s 27 points, pulled away in the final quarter for a 61-52 triumph over top-seeded Fremd to advance to the Fremd supersectional on Monday night at 7 p.m.

It’s easy to pinpoint exactly where the Class 4A No. 1 girls basketball team in the state put away Tuesday night’s semifinal of the Highland Park sectional.

After earning the West Division berth to the Mid-Suburban League championship game by earning a road victory at archrival Palatine a couple of weeks ago, Fremd coach Dave Yates offered up a potential postseason prospectus of his girls basketball team as it moved toward the Class 4A tournament after winning the MSL title at East Division titlist Hersey last week.

The 50th edition of the Mid-Suburban League girls basketball championship was held on Wednesday night in Arlington Heights and Fremd retained its golden touch in the showcase event.

Barrington hall of fame girls basketball coach Babbi Barreiro said she was humbled by all the support from friends and family at Prospect on Tuesday night when she won her 500th game in 30 seasons.

Wheeling girls basketball coach Beth Lucas Christell organized a Hersey alumni reunion last week when she brought her Wildcats to play in Arlington Heights.

Other than the week of its Morton College tournament in December, Fremd’s girls basketball team finished off its only other four-game week of the season on Saturday night.

As his Fremd girls basketball team made the nearly 15 minute trek to the northside of Palatine to face archrival Palatine High, coach Dave Yates, his players and assistant coaches as well as their lower level teams made it safely after having navigated and negotiated the roads being coated by a treacherous mix of rain, snow and wind.

Fremd sophomore guard Ellie Thompson can often get lost in the shuffle — on her own team.

Fremd’s girls basketball team hit the 20-win mark.

Fremd took a major step toward a 25th Mid-Suburban League girls basketball divisional title on Tuesday night in Palatine.

Grace Carstensen crafted one of the purest shooting strokes around through extra sessions with her dad.

With just one loss in 16 games, Fremd’s girls basketball team has clearly shown it is a top contender when it comes to the Class 4A state playoffs.

Playing against several college-bound players, Geneva senior point guard Rilee Hasegawa was an unlikely hero on Friday night.

Fremd sophomore guard Ella Todd was an anxious observer on Wednesday.

Fremd senior forward Maddy Fay didn’t mind competing in a let-them-play game on Wednesday night.

When Jason Raymond was chosen to be the 12th girls basketball coach for St. Viator’s girls basketball team in 2015, it meant he was coming home to his alma mater where he graduated in 1992.

Friday’s Mid-Suburban West showdown between the Daily Herald’s top-ranked Fremd girls basketball team and No. 5 Barrington was tied at 25-25 at halftime.

Prospect’s girls basketball team was seven games into its season after last Friday’s 61-54 win at Rolling Meadows.

The last official Class 4A state champions took the floor for a late-afternoon game of the Chicagoland Invitational Showcase on Saturday at Fremd High School.

Fremd’s state-ranked girls basketball has already been west to Hampshire and east to Indiana, facing some of the top teams in the Midwest.

Here’s a look at what to expect this winter for the Mid Suburban League girls basketball teams.