Those who drew up the schedule for this year’s Schaumburg girls basketball Thanksgiving tournament couldn’t have done a better job than having Friday’s finale between the two teams who had gone through the six-team field undefeated at 4-0 in Lake Park and Downers Grove North .

Thanks to their ability to survive an early onslaught by Lake Park that had them trailing by 10 in the late stages of the first half, the Trojans put together a dominant third quarter that allowed them to gain control and never look back in earning an 37-30 win to capture the title.

“We got caught on our heels in the first half, (so) we talked at halftime about one possession at a time and having better (ones),” DGN coach Stephan Bolt said. “Offensively, we tried to space them out a little bit more and try to att

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