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Round Lake edges Wauconda in girls basketball

The Round Lake and Wauconda girls basketball teams on Thursday both played their first game in 12 days.

Round Lake came away with the victory, 53-46 in North Suburban Prairie Division action.

Round Lake (14-2, 4-1) built a 36-21 lead by halftime, but saw the visiting Bulldogs make a game out of it.

"We got a little sloppy (in the second half)," Panthers coach Gary Edge said. "Give (Wauconda) credit. The first half we played well. The second half we didn't play as well."

Round Lake junior guard Labrenthia Murdock scored a career-high 23 points (three 3-pointers), all in the first three quarters. Amber Phillips added 15.

Wauconda (6-7, 3-2) got 17 points from Courtney Kimes and 15 from Lauren Mead. Mead had 8 points (two 3s) in the opening quarter. Edge credited Ashley Miller for her defense on Mead the rest of the game.

Besides Mead, Kimes and Katie LePage also sank a pair of 3s for the Bulldogs, who have lost five in a row.

Trinity 34, Benet 19: Despite his team's struggles this season, Benet girls basketball coach Peter Paul couldn't remember the last time the Redwings failed to score 20 points in a game.

On the road in River Forest, though, Paul's squad fell 1 point short of 20, dropping a 34-19 decision to Trinity Thursday night.

Benet's difficult night on offense included a scoreless second quarter, forcing the Redwings into an 18-6 halftime deficit.

"It's been a long time. I don't even remember the last time that happened," Paul said. "It was a long night.

Boys basketball

Mundelein 78, Desert Mountain (Arizona) 53: Mundelein kicked off the basketball portion of its Arizona trip in grand fashion -- by defeating the state's defending champions.

Ben Brust led the Mustangs (12-4) with 25 points and 9 rebounds while Navjot Singh had 21 points and 10 rebounds.

Mundelein built a big early lead and took a 53-29 advantage into the locker room at the break. The Mustangs hit 9 of their 11 three-pointers before halftime.

Girls bowling

Prospect preview: There is a tournament almost every weekend throughout the bowling season, and some of them are more competitive than others.

One of the two toughest is the Plainfield North tournament, and the other is the Prospect Invitational, which gets under way this Saturday at 9:30 a.m.

Among the favorites will be Mid-Suburban League co-leader Schaumburg, which has won three invitationals this winter -- at Stevenson, Plainfield North and Palatine -- and second at one other, Lockport.

The Saxons are also the defending champion at Prospect.

Also in contention are teams like Plainfield Central, which won the Rich East and Reavis tournaments. Rock Island won the United Township Invitational while Rolling Meadows finished first at the Streamwood invite.

Among the contenders who haven't won a tournament this season but have come close are Lockport, which took second at Rock Island; Minooka, runner-up at Rich East and new to the Prospect Invitational; Palatine, which came in second at Stevenson; Prospect, runner-up at the Palatine tournament; Rockford Guilford, second at Fremd; and Waubonsie Valley, which placed second at DeKalb.

"Teams we have to look at as favorites are Schaumburg, and Hoffman Estates is in there," said Prospect coach Greg Troyer.

Troyer names Hoffman's Natalie and Amanda Cortese, the Knights' Hannah Wrenn, Schaumburg's Samantha Kelly, Hersey's Shauna Pauly, Rockford Guilford sophomore Trista Flowers, who won the Fremd Tournament, and Rolling Meadows' Lauren Jacobs and Jillian Kola as favorites in the individual competition.

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