Top-seeded Antioch tops Timothy Christian

Timothy Christian lacks a go-to scorer for its girls basketball team. Antioch doesn't.

The top-seeded Sequoits remained undefeated on the season with a 47-23 victory Saturday afternoon to open the Lisle Holiday Cage Classic.

Junior guard Ashley Reiser led Antioch (13-0) with 22 points, 10 rebounds, 5 steals and 3 assists.

"She carried us," Antioch coach Tim Borries said.

Senior Dani VanLaten scored 10 points for the Trojans (5-7).

"We don't have a No. 1 scorer," Timothy Christian coach Michele Strube said. "We do it as a team. We missed a lot of layups. If we'd made a few of those layups in the third (quarter) we would've been down 6. So we were right there, but we missed a lot of the easy stuff."

The Trojans' only lead came on the first basket of the game, an Allison Zeilstra 3-pointer. Antioch scored the final 13 points of the opening quarter, including three Reiser 3-pointers, while Timothy missed its final 16 shots of the period. The Trojans made 10 of 57 shots for the game.

"We knew they had 3-point shooting, we knew they had good ballhandling, we knew the assists that they can hand out, so we just really focused on that (3-2 zone) defense," Strube said of her players, "and they did a great job. I couldn't be more pleased because we will not face a team like this in the (Metro Suburban Conference)."

The Antioch lead ranged from 9 to 14 points through the second and third quarters before the Sequiots pulled away in the fourth.

The Sequoits were playing for the first time without junior guard Amy Reiser and senior center Maddie Murillo due to injuries. They are out indefinitely, Borries said.

"We're adjusting," he said. "Amy is our leading rebounder, our leading scorer, so we have to adjust and learn how to play with different people. It took us a while. There in the fourth (quarter) we started playing our game. We came out flat. We didn't have a lot of energy. We have to fix that before Monday."

Antioch will play either Westmont or Latin at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the tournament quarterfinals. The Trojans play at 3:30 p.m. Monday in the consolation bracket against the loser of the Westmont-Latin game.

"It was a good team win, even though Ashley scored 22," Borries said. "It was a team win because we all had to come out and make our own little adjustments and maybe play the way we're not used to playing."

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