Two of the top girls basketball teams in the metro east hooked up in the championship game of the Alton Tip-Off Classic over the weekend.
Breese Mater Dei edged Belleville Althoff 57-52 to take home the championship trophy in an early-season showdown. Mater Dei ended Althoff's season last year in the state playoffs. These two talented teams should lock up a few more times during the season.
Mater Dei's performance was even more impressive, considering that several of the players are just joining the basketball team after an extended volleyball season where the Knights were state runners-up in the IHSA Class A state tournament.
Sophomore Brooke Schulte led the Knights with a game-high 21 points. Junior Ashley Rakers added 15 points. Althoff was led by senior guard Jazmin Hill, who scored 19 points in the losing cause.
Hill, a Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville signee, was selected the Most Valuable Player of the Tournament.
The All-Tournament First Team consisted of Schulte and teammate Kaley Boeckmann, Jordyne Crunk and Amarah Brooks-Williams of Althoff and Whitney Henderson of Cahokia.
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