Rochelle – In a regional championship game, every occupation can be talked about. On Friday, the second seeded Boylan Catholic in class 3A Rochel regional final, the third seed Dixon seemed to adopt that accurate mentality.
Duchess took a four-point lead at the end of the first quarter and then led each quarter, which moved a 52-44 win over Titans to hoist the regional championship plaque and ahead in the 3A Cyamore sectional semi-finals. Dixon will face the top seeded Crystal Lake Central at 6 pm on Tuesday evening.
“It seems surprising,” said Dixon Junior Forward Heli Williamson. “I looked at my former colleagues in the stand, and it thought about how sad we were about the last year that our season was finished early [in a 45-44 regional semifinal loss to Rock Island]But now we meet to continue it, so it seems just amazing. And then our student section here, they completed us the whole game. ,
[ Photos: Dixon vs Boylan class 3A girls basketball regional final ]
The Duchess (25–6) struggled to finish around the basket for most of the first quarter, but began to raise things towards the end, claiming an increase of 11–7 on Titans (25–7) by Bazar with a closing of 5–0.
Dixon’s Senior Guard Katy Drew placed a right-wing 3-paper with a 9–7 lead for a 9–7 lead with the remaining 1:19, then Freshman Forward Ahmari McGowon returned his own miss to make it 11-7 with 35 seconds.
Dixon extended its lead to 26–19 in Haftime, grabbing 11 aggressive rebels and captured many people with points of other opportunities. McGowan had six earlier half aggressive rebellion.
Williamson said, “I think there is a main key to us that we were really good.” “And then keep getting stronger with our shots and call them dishonestly, because I think they are doing a lot.
Boylan Senior Guard Alina Patalber hit two 3 for less than two 3s to tie the game at the beginning of 15 in the second quarter, but the Duchess scored 11 runs out of the next 15 points and gained seven points.
A McGowon Putback began growing at the 5:17 mark, then Sophomore Guard Reese Dembman killed two free throw, Williamson a pasteback and Sophomore Guard Morgan Hargrev performed a paste during 8–0 Duchess Run, with 3:32.
Hargrev hit a right-corner 3 for just one minute, and Biolan’s senior guard Kayley Herter put a final-second trimmed to reach a difference of seven points in Halftime.
McGowon said, “We knew that we have a lead, but we could not stop and come back.” “As a team as a Boylan, we knew how good the shooters had – we just knew that we could not come back and we just kept fighting.”
In the third quarter, Dixon barely opened a 30–19 lead over a draw paste in two minutes, but with his season on the line, Boylan refused to move away. Titans rallies within 30–27 with an 8–0 run through the third quarter, but lagged it back 38–33.
Petalbar left in the fourth with 6:48 within 38–36 on a leftist 3 within 38–36, but Dixon took a 52-39 lead at 6:27.
Williamson ignited 14–3 runs with two layouts and five straight points on a free throw, and McGowon returned a Drew, which Herter missed 3 to expand the 7–0 run before hitting a leftist 3 within 45–39. Dixon scored another run 7–0 at 1:01 stretch for ice snow to win. McGowon hit three free throw, and Williamson and Drew hits each two as Dixon took a 13 -point lead with 21.9 seconds.
Duches caught 30 total rebels in the game, including 15 on aggressive glass. McGowon had eight aggressive rebellions.
“It was a big part of our game, especially with the girl who was like 6 ″ 3 [senior forward Lily Esparza]”McGowon said about the rebounding effort.” We knew that he could get a lot of puttbacks, so we could not get it and put back points. ,
Williamson scored a total of 19 points and eight rebounds. McGowon compiled 11 points, 10 rebounds, four assistance and four theft. Drew over 11 points and six rebels. Hargrev participated in eight points and three theft, and Senior Forward Jesse Pitman added two points and four rebounds to the Duchess.
Boylan was led by Petalbar in scoring, who scored 15 points at five 3 and got three assistance. Asparaza assisted a total of 14 points, 12 rebounds and four, and Herter added 13 points and five rebounds for Titans.
