Top girls basketball players, teams and storylines in Week 5: Hand coach Tim Tredwell gets a milestone win

Hand girls basketball coach Tim Tredwell had a couple of big days in the last week and a half. He got his 200th win Jan. 7 over Mercy and three days later handed Sacred Heart of Hamden its first loss.

Hand defeated Mercy 57-36. Tredwell’s record is now 204-92 after a win over Law on Monday. He is in his 13th season.

“I got my first varsity loss to [Mercy] so the momentous one should be against them as well,” Tredwell said last week. “My first win was against East Haven and my first loss was to Mercy, and they beat us by about a thousand.

“To get it against Mercy — [coach Tim] Kohs has multiple state titles and he’s got a million wins of his own. He’s well-respected. Any time you can knock his team off, it feels pretty good.”

Then Hand beat Sacred Heart — the team that garnered national attention on Jan. 3 by beating Lyman Hall 92-4 — 39-36. Sacred Heart is 6-1.

“It was a lot of fun because it was the first time in like two years we had a packed house,” Tredwell said. “It was loud, charged environment. Sacred Heart has kind of made themselves a nationwide story, so that added to the luster of the game.”

The excitement faded a bit Wednesday when Hand lost to Hamden 61-59, but the Tigers (8-2) ended the week with a 67-50 victory over Hillhouse Friday.

Players of the week

Abby Bradbury, Valley Regional: Bradbury had 26 points in a 65-38 win over Westbrook Tuesday.

Shadae Bushay, Middletown: Bushay scored 31 points in an 80-65 victory over Northwest Catholic Monday.

Ciara Collins, Bristol Eastern: Collins scored 29 points in a 47-28 win over Platt Thursday.

Callie Cosgrove, Conard: Cosgrove had 37 points in a 64-59 overtime win over Manchester Monday.

Kailee DeMaio, Berlin: DeMaio had 16 points and 15 rebounds in a 61-50 win over Middletown Thursday.

Lilly Ferguson, Newington: Ferguson, a senior who is headed to UMass, scored her 1,000th career point in a 61-32 victory over Berlin Tuesday. Ferguson needed 13 points to reach the milestone and scored 14 and had five rebounds, three assists and two steals.

Marisol Figueroa, Hartford Public: Figueroa had 19 points and 13 rebounds in a 65-26 win over Rocky Hill Monday.

Lauren Sabia, Simsbury: Sabia had 31 points in a 52-37 win over Wethersfield Tuesday, the most by a Simsbury girls basketball player since 2014, and 29 points in a 57-34 win over Northwest Catholic Thursday.

Tiara Tyson, Manchester: Tyson scored 28 points in a 64-59 overtime loss to Conard Monday and 20 points in a 45-37 loss to E.O. Smith Friday.

Eliana Wood, Somers: Woods scored 25 points in a 47-38 win over Bolton Friday.

Teams of the week

Enfield: The Eagles went 3-0 last week, defeating Avon 62-47 behind Alyssa Rossignol’s 31 points Tuesday, Windsor Locks 52-41 Thursday and East Catholic 57-39 Friday and have won seven straight games.

Somers: The Spartans have won six straight, including victories over Suffield (50-42) Tuesday and Bolton (47-38) Friday.

Valley Regional: Valley (7-0) beat Westbrook Tuesday 65-38 and Portland 54-26 Friday, with Regan Grow scoring 16 points and Olivia Cunningham adding 14.

Storylines of the week

— East Hampton (7-1) beat Coginchaug 49-25 Friday behind Liana Salamone’s 23 points. The Bellringers’ only loss was to Valley Regional, and the two Shoreline Conference foes will meet again Feb. 4. Coginchaug is 5-2 with its only other loss to Pomperaug.

— RHAM (9-0) hit 18 3-pointers in a 72-45 victory over South Windsor in a CCC East game Friday, with Lauren Fenton and Grace Whitmore making four apiece.

Newington (10-0) hasn’t allowed more than 41 points in a game (and that came in a win over E.O. Smith Dec. 17). The Nor’easters gave up 32 to Berlin and 30 to Hartford Public last week.

Games to watch this week

Enfield at Maloney, Tuesday: The Eagles (9-1) go up against unbeaten Maloney (7-0).

Bristol Eastern at Middletown, Tuesday: Two of the top players in the area — Bristol Eastern’s Ciara Collins and Middletown’s Tyah Petteway — will face off against each other in this CCC South game.

Newington at Cromwell, Thursday: Cromwell (4-1) hasn’t played since a loss to East Hampton Dec. 28 and will host one of the state’s best teams in Newington Thursday night.

Valley Regional at Somers, Saturday: Valley Regional is undefeated, but Somers has won its last six games and the two will meet in a nonconference game at 4 p.m.

Lori Riley can be reached at lriley@courant.com.