Junior guard Natalie Frempong, who scored her 1,000th career point earlier this season, didn’t slow down in Naperville North’s playoff opener.
Frempong tallied 31 points on Monday as the ninth-seeded Huskies topped eighth-seeded Oswego East 67-62 in the Class 4A Benet Regional semifinals.
Senior guard Anna Richards added 20 points for Naperville North (17-4), which advances to play top-seeded Benet (27-2) in the regional championship game at 7 p.m. Thursday. The Redwings routed 17th-seeded Plainfield East 70-22 on Monday. The winner will go to the Bolingbrook Sectional semifinals.
Second-seeded Waubonsie Valley also won in the regional semifinals on Monday. The Warriors (28-1) crushed 14th-seeded Plainfield South 88-32 and will play seventh-seeded West Aurora (21-4) in the regional final on their home court at 7 p.m. Thursday.
In the Metea Valley Regional semifinals on Tuesday, the 15th-seeded host Mustangs lost 53-35 to third-seeded Bolingbrook, and 11th-seeded Naperville Central lost 61-42 to sixth-seeded Yorkville.
In the Plainfield North Regional semifinals on Tuesday, 13th-seeded Neuqua Valley lost 49-25 to fourth-seeded Downers Grove North.
