Playoff Run Begins for Trojans' Girls Basketball

After a 24-3 regular season which concluded with a 11-game winning streak and a perfect Fox Valley Conference Valley Division record and title, Cary-Grove’s girls’ basketball team gets back on the court Tuesday night looking to begin a run toward the Class 4A state championship.

The top-seeded Trojans will take on the winner of Monday night’s play-in game between No. 4 seed Larkin and No. 5 seed Elgin in the IHSA Class 4A Dundee-Crown Regional in Carpentersville at 6 p.m.

Cary coach Rod Saffert said against his team’s victory over Grayslake Central that he was glad his team got a test before the regionals, which will better prepare them for the road ahead.

“After the previous two games and tonight, I’m glad it was the war that it was because that‘s the way postseason going to be and should be,” Saffert said. “Every game you have to find ways to pull it out. There probably aren’t going to be any blowouts. Everybody going to be pretty fired up to play hard.”

If Cary wins Tuesday night, C-G would play the winner of the Dundee-Crown-Streamwood semifinal on Thursday night at 7:30 p.m.

Cary defeated D-C twice this season by an average of 28 points this season with a 49-18 win at home on Dec. 9 and a 57-32 win at Dundee-Crown on Jan. 18 while the Trojans have not faced Streamwood this season.

Claire Jakubicek, who has averaged over 20 points a game this season, said that the team just needs to do what it has been doing the whole year.

“We just got to work hard and do what we do and hopefully it will all work out,” Jakubicek said.

The winner of the Dundee-Crown Regional will play the winner of the Huntley Regional in the Jacobs Sectional in Algonquin on Feb. 22 at 6 p.m.