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St. Xavier’s Veronica Bafia leads her team in scoring. But the sophomore forward from Lockport also leads the Cougars in another category that doesn’t show up on the stat sheet.

Coach Sidney Lovitsch gets a big kick out of that, too.

“She’s the loudest clapper of all the girls,” Lovitsch said. “During practice, when I’m turned around talking to the coaching staff and I hear that clapping for her teammates, I’m like, ‘That’s Veronica.’

“I turn around and it’s her. It’s ear-piercing. It’s actually very funny.”

There has been a lot of clapping lately for the 5-foot-9 Bafia. She tallied 16 points, four rebounds, three blocked shots and two steals in a 69-40 nonconference win over Aquinas at the Shannon Center in Chicago.

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