Presenting the 2021-2022 DuPage County All-Area Girls Basketball Team

The odds were stacked against St. Charles East.The odds were stacked against the Saints basketball team when it found itself with a new coach midway through its season.

Alyssa Hughes proved elusive on Tuesday night and St. Charles North advanced to Friday’s Class 4A Addison Trail regional championship game after a 52-44 victory over the pesky host Blazers.

Lyons Twp. scored the game’s last 12 points to win the West Suburban Conference girls basketball championship game 61-48 on Wednesday at Addison Trail.

Willowbrook point guard Sophie Sullivan and her teammates were upstaged by Maine South forward Emily Pape, who tallied a career-high and school-record 41 points to lead the visiting Hawks to a 71-67 victory.

Out for the season with a knee injury, Kendall Walch started Thursday on Senior Night and was allowed to score the game’s first basket.

Willowbrook rallied from 7 points down in the second half to beat York 51-46 in a West Suburban Conference girls basketball crossover game Wednesday night.

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.

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.

With three sophomores in the starting lineup, the future is exceptionally bright for the Nazareth girls basketball program.As it turns out, so is the present.Continuing to raise the bar despite their youth, the Roadrunners won their 13th game in a row with a hard-fought 51-37 nonconference victory over Willowbrook Thursday before a big crowd in La Grange Park.