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Yorkville Christian, on Tray Alford’s shot in final seconds, wins thriller over Christ the King · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Christian on Trey Alford shot in final seconds wins
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  thriller over Christ the King. Written by Joshua Welge, This
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  article is being read by an automated voice brought to
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  you by Everlett. Trey Alford. Regardless of the gym or
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  even the state, seems to have the clutch gene. Yorkfield
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  Christian's junior guard hit a buzzer beating three point shot
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  in the championship game of a tournament in Madison, Wisconsin
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  in December. As a freshman, he hit a game winner
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  at the Plano Christmas Classic. Alfred did it again Friday
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  on his team's final possession. Going the length of the court,
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  Alfred rolled in a runner from the right elbow in
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  the final seconds. It gave Yorkville Christian a thrilling seventy
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  sixty nine win over visiting Christ the King. Brutally honest,
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  I've been that kind of player my whole life, Alfred said.
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  I'm the type of player that if I have to
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  do something, I'm going to do something. My team needed me,
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  I'm going to do whatever I can for my team. Nah.
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  In a back and forth fourth quarter with four ties
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  and nine lead changes, five in the last sixty two
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  seconds alone. Christ the King seventeen eight took a sixty
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  nine to sixty eight lead with eleven point nine seconds
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  left on two free throws by Levonte Winfield, who scored
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  a team high twenty three points. Out of a timeout,
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  Alfred inbounded to Jade and Riley, who passed it back
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  to a streaking Alfred at mid court. He took two
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  dribbles past the defender, hung and double clutched in the
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  air and let the floater fly. It momentarily sat on
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  the back of the rim, then rolled around and in.
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  When Jayden threw it to me, I realized they had
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  two on that side, so I was like, I'm gonna
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  beat them this way, Alfred said. I knew I had
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  two shooters in the corner. I noticed nobody collapsed, so
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  I just floated the ball up. I had to do it.
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  Christ the King missed a desperation three as time expired.
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  It's been a big week for Alford, who scored seventeen
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  points in the win. On Wednesday, he scored his one
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  thousandth career point, and in Yorkville Christian's win over Juliette
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  Catholic at Milwaukee's Feiserforum, Trey another clutch shot. Yorkville Christian
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  coach Aaron Severn said, we knew they would double, We
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  didn't know that they would go to that zone trap.
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  We had those two guys back and we said, whoever
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  they don't double, you're going and I trust those guys
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  to make plays, and Trey had the gap. Trey has
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  been clutched when it comes to that. Riley, who scored
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  thirty three points, including his two thousands in a Yorkville
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  Christian uniform with five assists and five steals, knows it
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  as well as anybody. I've been playing with Trey since
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  like second grade. Trey really does have that clutch gene.
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  Riley said. People don't pay attention to him. When you
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  don't pay attention to somebody, they're going to pay the price.
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  Yorkville Christian fifty nine, as it typically does, has challenged
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  itself with a schedule that has included multiple games in
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  Wisconsin and several against highly regarded bigger schools. Friday's game
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  was a unique gauge against another top school closer to
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  its enrollment. Christ the King finished third in Class two
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  to a last year the class Yorkville Christian will compete
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  in this postseason. The two teams have contrasting styles, which
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  made for an entertaining matchup. Christ the King, led by
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  the six foot three Winfield, lives in the paint and
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  off second shots. Yorkville Christian with SIU Edwardsville commit Riley,
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  one of the state's better guards, is more finesse. The
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  win came on the heels of the Mustangs, rallying from
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  six down at half to beat Juliet Catholic. It's a
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  huge win, Severn said. We knew this week was a
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  tough week, three games in four days. Chris the King
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  is a good team. They do what we struggle with
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  the offensive rebound. They throw it up and go get it,
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  and our guys battled. While the smaller Mustangs were out
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  rebounded thirty five nineteen, they held their own at times.
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  Cayden Maxwell, all of six foot one, had six points
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  and ten rebounds, all his points coming to the second
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  half before fouling out. He battles like crazy, Severn said.
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  Yorkville Christian led thirty two to thirty one at half,
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  but christ the King surged ahead forty five forty with
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  a ten over run. Riley scored to close the gap
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  to forty nine forty seven at the quarter turn, and
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  Maxwell scored to tie it to start the fourth. Riley
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  scored in nineteen of his thirty three in the second half.
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  There were some shenanigans going on, and I think that
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  lit the fire in him, Severn said, not that he
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  was sleeping, but you don't want to poke that bear.
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  With his two thousandth point in three years at Yorkville,
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  Christian Riley joined jaydensha as the only player in program
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  history to reach the Mileston It's crazy, Riley said, I
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  thank coach for the opportunities and letting me run the team.
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  At the end of the day, it's not possible without
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  that