St. Bede upsets top-seed Seneca to advance to TCC finals: Monday BCR roundup

Girls basketball

St. Bede 59, Seneca 57: The Bruins punched their ticket to the Tri-County Conference Tournament championship game by knocking off the No. 1 seeded Fighting Irish in Monday’s semifinals at Roanoke.

Savannah Bray led the Bruins with 17 points with Lili McClain adding 16 and Ashlyn Ehm with 14.

The No. 4-seeded Bruins will play No. No. 3 Marquette for the TCC championship at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Roanoke. Marquette beat No. 2 Roanoke-Benson 51-43 in Monday’s other semifinal.

Byron 55, Hall 42: The Red Devils led 13-11 after one quarter, but couldn’t maintain the lead against the state-ranked Tigers, who are coached by Hall alumnus Eric Yerly.

Ella Sterling led the Red Devils with 11 points with Caroline Morris and Natalia Zamora adding eight each, Ava Delphi seven and Charlie Pellegrini six.

Hall also lost 50-31 to Galena on Monday.

E-P 35, Bureau Valley 32: Libby Endress led the Storm in defeat with 14 points in a nonconference meeting with former Three Rivers Conference rival E-P.

Boys basketball

Tolono Unity 63, Princeton 61: The Tigers rallied from a 57-48 deficit after three quarters, but fell short in their second game of the Bloomington Central Catholic MLK Shootout on Monday.

Princeton Christian Academy 48, DePue JV 47: Julian Mucha hit a late 3-point shot to lift the Eagles to a come-from-win at Howard Hoffman Memorial Gymnasium on Monday.

Mucha led the Eagles with 27 points and Andrew Gibson added 13.

For DePue, Nico Lopez had 17 points and Sam Cervantes had 14.