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The Burlington Central girls basketball team sure picked a good time to play its best game of the season. And now the stage lights get just a little brighter for the Rockets. Freshman Shelby Holt hit three 3-pointers in the first four minutes of the game and the Rockets' defense was relentless in a 49-26 win over Sterling Thursday night in the championship game of the Class 3A Genoa-Kingston sectional. The win puts the Rockets (27-4), winners of 12 straight, in Monday's 7:30 p.m. Hoffman Estates supersectional oppoosite defending Class 3A state runner-up Vernon Hills (29-2), a 42-30 winner over Regina Dominican Thursday in the VH sectional title game. Monday's game will mark the first time a Burlington Central basketball team, boys or girls, has played in an IHSA Elite Eight game. The 1984 Rockets also won a sectional title, advancing to the Sweet Sixteen in Class A. The 1987 team lost to St. Edward in the program's only other sectional final appearance.