When Benet’s Lenee Beaumont takes over, it’s game over. Even with a banged-up knee, apparently.

As teammates were warming up for the second half, Benet senior guard Lenee Beaumont walked over to have a conversation with coach Joe Kilbride.

It wasn’t a planned confab.

“She was making funny faces, and I said, ‘What’s wrong?’” Kilbride said. “She said, ‘I fell and hurt my knee at the end of the first half.’

“So we were discussing her health. But she’s fine.”

The same couldn’t be said of Benet’s opponent. In arguably the finest all-around performance of her career, the Indiana-bound Beaumont led all players with 21 points and 14 rebounds to go with four assists as the top-seeded Redwings beat sixth-seeded Waubonsie Valley 58-47 to win the Class 4A West Aurora Sectional championship on Thursday.

Benet (23-7) advances to play Kenwood (30-5) in the Hinsdale Central Supersectional at 7 p.m. Monday.

“It really wasn’t a big deal,” Beaumont said of the knock. “But even if it was a big deal, I had so much adrenaline going into the game. I couldn’t even sleep last night because of how excited I was. I fell asleep watching film.”

You don’t want to fall asleep while watching Beaumont play because you might miss something spectacular. She pulled off a bunch of jaw-dropping plays against the Warriors (24-8), who hung tough for a half but seemed helpless to stop her Division I-worthy spin moves and no-look passes.

Even some Waubonsie Valley fans gasped at the display.

“There’s a bunch of spins and shots that she made which were just crazy shots to make,” Benet senior center Samantha Trimberger said. “And also amazing passes.”

As has been the case lately, Trimberger was on the receiving end of several of those passes. She scored on back-to-back layups off great feeds from Beaumont to cap a 13-1 run that bridged halftime and gave the Redwings a 43-31 lead.

Trimberger, who finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds, had eight points during the run, while Beaumont tallied the other five.

“I’ve learned to always be ready with Lenee,” Trimberger said. “I’ve always got to be ready even if I think she’s not going to pass it because you never know when she might pass it.”

One example of that came in the fourth quarter, shortly after senior guard Taylor Curry converted a 3-point play to pull Waubonsie Valley within 47-39. Trimberger answered with a layup off a feed from junior guard Maggie Sularski.

On the next possession, Beaumont had the ball poked away at midcourt. But she got it back, dribbled past two defenders into the lane and whipped a no-look pass to Trimberger for another layup and a 51-39 lead with 5:41 remaining.

“I don’t know how to explain it, but today I was just like go-go-go,” Beaumont said. “I didn’t really know what was going on half the time, but I just kept going with it.

“I knew they were going to load up on me on offense, so there would be open looks. I love being in transition, so anytime they press, I love it.”

Beaumont also crashed the boards and nearly single-handedly outrebounded the smaller Warriors. She hit eight of her first 10 shots and put back both of her misses.

“Honestly, you can make the argument that she’s the best post player in Illinois, and she’s playing point for us,” Kilbride said. “Waubonsie is very good, but they didn’t have a lot of size. So we felt that Sam and Beau can do some things at the rim, and that turned out to be the case.”

Junior forward Hannah Laub scored 20 points, including six 3-pointers, and freshman guard Danyella Mporokoso added 13 points for the Warriors, who were eliminated by the Redwings for the second straight season.

Now Beaumont and the Redwings are one win away from a return trip to the state finals. She will be studying, although perhaps not the material her teachers would prefer.

“Any of my teachers would know I do not pay attention in class on game days. I watch film,” said Beaumont, an honors student. “My AP economics teacher was here, and he caught me watching film this morning, and he said, ‘I understand.’”

Matt Le Cren is a freelance reporter for the Naperville Sun.