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Class of '66 Old Fart

(2023) - G Lenee Beaumont to INDIANA

By Class of '66 Old Fart, in Indiana Women's Basketball

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Class of '66 Old Fart    84,744

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It was a barnburner the whole game but Benet (24-7) defeated Geneva (29-4) 50-48 to advance to tomorrow's state championship game.  Geneva tied it at 48; Benet did not call a timeout and Lenee went coast to coast.  She didn't make the bucket but Samantha Trimble got the rebound and was fouled.  With 2.4 seconds left, Trimble made both FTs for the Benet win.  Preliminary stats have Lenee with 27p and 14r.

 

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Daily Herald -

NORMAL -- Samantha Trimberger chose to focus on the positive potential of an outcome, rather than the pressure of the situation.

One shot, and she'd be a hero.

The Benet senior forward did it one better, making two tiebreaking free throws with 2.4 seconds left. Trimberger's clutch shots sent Benet past Geneva 50-48 in Friday's Class 4A semifinal at CEFCU Arena and into Saturday's state championship game against O'Fallon.

"Really, at least it was a tie game," Trimberger said. "What was going through my mind was I have a chance to win us the game. Since it was a one-and-one, just make the first one so we have that lead. Once I made that first one it was a little pressure off the second one. It was great that I made both shots but quite honestly we only needed one."

Benet (25-7) won its second game of the week in the final seconds, and put behind the bad taste of last year's two losses at state.

After Trimberger split two free throws with 39.8 seconds left for a 48-46 lead, Geneva's Lauren Slagle tied it with a basket with 14 seconds remaining.

Forgoing a timeout, Benet senior guard and Indiana recruit Lenee Beaumont raced down the court, her shot at the basket rolling out. Trimberger was fouled on the loose ball, setting the stage for her late heroics.                                                     

"We practice free throws every day in practice," Trimberger said. "Just take a deep breath in and go for it."

Geneva coach Sarah Meadows has been at the other end of dramatic finishes in her last two times at state. The Vikings won back-to-back titles in 2017 and 2018 on last-second shots by Stephanie Hart.

Losing on a late call and free throws, though, was tough to swallow.

"It's tough to end a game that way," Meadows said. "I felt there were two kids battling for the ball, and that's how it ends up. But it is what it is."

Beaumont was sensational once again, with 27 points and 14 rebounds. Trimberger added 10 points, 12 rebounds and seven blocks.

Leah Palmer had 13 points and 11 rebounds and Slagle 13 points and seven boards for Geneva (30-4). Cassidy Arni, who missed a heave for the win from beyond half-court as time expired, scored 12. Arni's free throws with 1:57 left in the third quarter gave Geneva its last lead at 33-31.

Beaumont collided with a Geneva defender on a drive late in the third quarter, fell to the court and gingerly walked to the sideline. She returned moments later, and went coast-to-coast to roll in a three-point play to give Benet the lead for good at 34-33 with 1:49 left in the third quarter.

 "Last year was disappointing, losing twice here, but having that experience -- we were the only team here back from last year, we didn't want the same outcome," Beaumont said. "We told everyone before the game we're not playing another game tonight, that's not happening."

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Don't know how many points she has but from the tweets I'm reading Lenee has put Benet on her back.  After being down 15 a one point, Benet has tied the game at 31 with 2:29 left in the 3rd.

Update:  Benet leads 37-34 after 3Q.  Lenee 18p.

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Update 3rd Q score

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Daily Herald -

 Lenee Beaumont slowly walked backed down the court, a solitary figure alone in her thoughts after her last shot.

Beaumont willed Benet to a gutsy comeback from what was a nightmare of a start to the Class 4A final for the Redwings. Just like she willed her team to state through an unusually challenging season by Benet standards.

The dream of a state championship was not to be -- but what an effort to get there.

Beaumont, Benet's senior guard and an Indiana recruit, capped off her sensational career and playoff run with 27 points, leading a comeback from 15 points down in the first half.

But she missed potential shots for the win in the final seconds of the fourth quarter, and the first overtime, and a 3-point shot for the tie in the final possession of double overtime.

O'Fallon, behind All-Stater Shannon Dowell's 25 points, emerged with a 62-57 win over Benet in double overtime in the Class 4A final at CEFCU Arena to win its first state championship.

"I said on Friday that this team is resilient, and today was an example of how we just continue to battle. It doesn't matter how many we were down, we just continued to battle until the final horn," Beaumont said. "To be in this game was super crazy. Obviously we're disappointed, we worked all season to be here, but unfortunately some shots didn't go our way."

O'Fallon senior guard Jailah Pelly, who scored 12 of her 16 points in the second half and overtimes, gave her team the lead for good at 58-56 with a driving layup with 2:27 left in the second overtime.

Benet (25-8) had won fantastic finishes twice this week in the final seconds. Beaumont assisted Lindsay Harzich's game-winning layup in supersectionals. Samantha Trimberger hit two free throws with 2.4 seconds left in Friday's semifinal to beat Geneva.

Unfortunately for Benet, the third time was not the charm.

"A couple bounces either would have gone, we had a few missed layups, I felt like [O'Fallon], they got every bounce on the other end. It's unfortunate," Beaumont said. "It's very unfortunate. I hate losing, especially in the state championship game."

O'Fallon (34-4) scored the first 10 points of the game, and it was 23-8 two minutes into the second quarter. O'Fallon made 83% of its field goals up to that start.

 

But Benet tweaked its zone a bit, and got it to 27-20 by halftime.

"It wasn't a magical thing. We took it one possession at a time," Benet coach Joe Kilbride said. "We started changing things a little bit. We stuck with our plan and changed things up a bit."

The momentum swing continued into the second half.

Down 31-24, Benet surged ahead with an 11-0 run. Beaumont's three-point play started it, and she hit a spinning shot in the lane to tie it.

Trimberger, who scored 13 points, gave Benet its first lead, 33-31, with 1:36 left in the third quarter on a hook and Beaumont followed with a score in transition.

"This team has a ton of heart," Trimberger said. "We kind of came together at halftime and said we want this so badly, let's leave it all on the floor."

Beaumont, as she has all postseason, led the way with nine of her 27 points in the third quarter.

"She's been carrying us, she carried us through two overtimes today and it almost got it done," Kilbride said.

A back-and-forth ensued, with the two teams trading the lead six times over the final four minutes of regulation. Emilia Sularski's 3-pointer put Benet up 50-48 with 1:16 left in regulation, but after a Benet missed layup Dowell hit two free throws with 17.3 seconds left to tie it.

Two free throws each by Beaumont and Sularski gave Benet a 54-51 lead with 2:01 left in the first overtime. Dowell, again, answered with a tying 3-pointer with 2:01 left.

"At the end of the day, it was a very competitive game. We put on a show," Beaumont said. "I'm incredibly proud of this team."

Beaumont, after leading Benet to fourth place in Class 4A as a junior, brought them back in a season of unusual adversity for the program.

The Redwings lost seven regular-season games, most in Kilbride's tenure, with his first three-game losing streak.

But Beaumont willed them to within a shot of winning the program's first state title since going back-to-back in 2015 and 2016.

"It's been going on all year. We've had a lot of ups and downs," Beaumont said. "Some teams crumble but I feel we're the exact opposite. To come back from that deficit is incredible."

So was the player that led Benet there.

"I told her before the game we got here because of you. That is absolutely the case," Kilbride said. "She's a phenomenal player and an even better person. I'm incredibly proud of her, and all these kids. For us to come battle back shows the guts of these kids, their toughness and resilience."

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No particular surprise after winning the Gatorade POY award that MaxPreps would name her Illinois POY.

https://www.maxpreps.com/news/otd4052Rgk6jG2LeVGB0jQ/lenee-beaumont-named-2022-23-maxpreps-illinois-high-school-girls-basketball-player-of-the-year.htm?ftag=MPG-05-10aaa4j&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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