Rettig sets Rosary scoring record in win at St. Edward

Jordan Rettig set the Rosary scoring record Friday. She can thank her teammates for making the night more special with a victory.

Rettig scored 9 points as the Royals survived trip to Elgin with a 76-69 Suburban Christian Gold overtime victory over St. Edward. The senior needed 8 points to pass Elyse VonBogaert for the school record and now has 1,468 points.

Rettig scored 1 point in the first half, going 0 for 7 from the field. She scored 8 points in the third quarter. Her left-handed layup off a feed from Katie Petrando with 1:26 left in the third tied VonBogaeart. Rettig's short shot off the glass with 17 seconds left in the quarter gave her the record.

"It's extremely nice to get it over with," Rettig said. "When I scored my 1,000th point that game was a little rough because I get inside my own head. I tried not to do that tonight, but it obviously happened in the first half."

"Maybe I shouldn't have said anything to her (about the record)," Rosary coach Dave Beebe said. "She still came through and got plenty of rebounds. She scored when we needed her to."

That was all the scoring Retting, who also had 19 rebounds, would do. But Petrando, Stephanie Haugen and Breann Maryanski picked up the slack. Haugen scored 12 of her 20 points in the fourth quarter and overtime despite missing several minutes after hitting her head on the floor. Petrando led the Royals (13-4, 4-1) with 21 points, 4 in overtime. Maryanski scored 7 of her 14 points in the fourth quarter and overtime.

"We needed other people to step up," Beebe said. "They all had great games."

The Green Wave (9-8, 1-5), who lost to Rosary by 22 in early December, rallied from a 7-point deficit, 59-52, in the final 51.5 seconds of regulation. Vincenza Ranallo had a 3-point play, Callie Johnson hit a pair of free throws and Madeline Kerr banked in a 3-pointer with 10 seconds left to tie the game at 60-60.

The Royals' Brenda Rocha, in the game for an injured Haugen at the time, hit two free throws with 7.8 seconds left for a 62-60 lead. Maryanski blocked a Kristi Knott shot attempt and the ball went out of bounds and the buzzer sounded, but the referees put .7 seconds back on the clock. Kerr knocked down an 8-foot jumper to send the game into overtime.

Haugen's 3-pointer with 2:40 left in overtime gave Rosary a 67-65 lead. Then the Royals hit enough free throws to earn the win.

"I'm am so proud of the girls and how hard they played," Green Wave coach Michelle Dawson said. "My kids kept working. They never gave up. I'm at a loss. I just wish the ball would have bounced a different way a couple times."

Kerr finished with 21 points for St. Edward. Johnson added 20 points. Alexandria Lee had 10 points and 10 rebounds.