Malia Shen has great concentration.

The Naperville Central senior caught a pair of touchdown passes that deflected off the hands of Glenbard West defenders on Wednesday night and the Redhawks shut out the Hilltoppers 25-0 to win the Naperville Central regional championship.

Naperville Central (16-3) advances to Monday’s South Elgin sectional semifinal against Willowbrook.

“(Quarterback) Lyla (Hope) picks out who’s open and does a really good job with that,” Shen said. “When it got deflected I just had to think for a split second and then just tried my best to just react as fast as I could.”

Hope’s 26-yard touchdown pass to Shen on the first play of the second quarter proved to be the only scoring the Redhawks would need.

“The defense locked down,” Redhawks coach Caroline Schwartz

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