Beginning of the end and other things
No. 1 Buffalo Grove won its first-round game at the Dundee-Crown tournament Wednesday, a 66-41 win over Regina. It is the last tournament appearance for Bison coach Tom Dineen, who is retiring after the season, and it was the opening game of the tournament’s 25th edition.
So it was fitting that BG’s Loyola-bound guard Ellen Ayoub made the morning special, as she scored 24 points and notched her 1,500th career point.
And Dineen laughed when asked about playing the day’s first game at 10 a.m.
“I don’t know if we’ve ever played here in the morning,” Dineen said. “Maybe it’s their way of getting back at me in my last year.”
Mother McAuley won its Dundee opener, a 56-55 nailbiter over Evanston. McAuley returns to the D-C tournament for the first time since the 1990s, quite fitting for the tournament’s 25th anniversary.
Evanston's Kim Davis and Darcel Retreage led the Wilkits with 20 and 22 points, respectively.
Davis is a heady ball player. She had a collision at midcourt late in the game, looked pretty shaken up, but got up and kept going. Some writers here at D-C wonder how good Evanston would be if Janelle Cannon was still at Evanston. Cannon transferred to Wheeling this year.