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St Charles North takes down Streamwood
Updated: February 1, 2012 10:03PM
Quinten Payne ran away with the one-man dunk contest on Wednesday night.
The junior guard shook the rim with thunderous dunks on multiple occasions to ignite a St. Charles North home win, 57-43, over Streamwood in an Upstate Eight River matchup.
“I was pretty hungry with it. My teammates were saying ‘get dunks’ and stuff like that, but they were just easy opportunities for us and we got easy looks,” said Payne, a Loyola University recruit.
The North Stars (11-12, 7-2) looked loose, even having fun, as they extended their win streak to four games behind the dominant play of Payne and senior center Kyle Nelson.
North used a stingy man-to-man defense, pestering the Sabres offense all night, creating 20 turnovers for the game and setting up high percentage shots on the other end.
While Payne had the poster-worthy jams, it was the tenacious yet consistent play of Nelson (game-high 22 points) that constantly jump-started his team, counterbalancing North’s 28-percent shooting from three-point territory.
“We were having fun with each other, practices are good and we are playing defense and getting easy stops and that leads to easy buckets in transition,” said Nelson.
The typically hot-handed Brandon Larkin-Guilfoyle for Streamwood (4-18, 1-9), went cold as he converted on just 3-of-10 shooting. He and center Zach Harris, who also had eight rebounds, each had a team-high 10 points.
Streamwood (18-of-41 shooting) did not give up without a fight but let a few stretches of the game get away.
“I told our kids, out of 32 minutes, we probably played 22 minutes of good basketball,” said Sabres coach Tim Jones, whose team has dropped six in a row.
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