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Macie Jones’ big shots help Yorkville, down to six healthy players, rally for win at Oswego · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Mackey Jones is big shots help Yorkville down to six
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  healthy players rally for win at Oswego. Written by Joshua Welge,
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  this article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett Mackey. Jones claims to have issues
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  with shooting three pointers, her coach has no issues with
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  her taking them. Yorkville's five foot eight senior point guard
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  has been part of the program's ten thousand shot club
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  for six years running. She's almost too unselfish, Yorkville coach
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  Kim Winsid said, she does so many other things for us.
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  She gets kids in the right place. It's like, if
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  you put in the reps, take the shots, absolutely take them.
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  Jones took and made a couple big ones Saturday. She
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  hit go ahead three late the third quarter and a
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  second during a pivotal run shorthanded Yorkville down to six
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  healthy players, never looked back in rallying for a fifty
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  one to forty one win at Oswego as part of
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  the fifteenth annual Communities Versus Cancer event. The Foxes attempted
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  eighteen three point shots in the first half, but Jones
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  didn't try any. Her three pointer with two fifty two
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  left in the third quarter, gave Yorkville twelve thirteen sixty
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  seven Southwest Prairie Conference the lead for good at thirty
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  four to thirty one. She hit another one during a
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  ten to two run that stretched into the first minute
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  of the fourth quarter. Everyone reminds me that I need
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  to shoot, and I'm good at it, Jones said, Kudos
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  to my teammates. I know that I can shoot, but
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  I try to get something else happening. I do feel
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  I'm really unselfish. Hayden Hodges had twelve points and eight rebounds,
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  Jones eleven points, nine coming in the second half with
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  seven rebounds and five assists, and Sidney McCabe scored ten
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  points with five assists for Yorkville, which hit nine three
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  pointers and rallied from a twenty five to twenty two
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  halftime hole to beat Oswego thirteen sixteen, four to nine
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  for the tenth straight time. Kendall Grant had fourteen points
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  and seven rebounds. Peyton Johnson eleven points, seven rebounds and
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  three steals in Olivia East ten rebounds for Oswego, which
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  was hurt by ten for twenty six free throw shooting.
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  Yorkville is currently down four injured players, two of whom
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  went Sits is hopeful to have back next week. Despite
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  those health issues, the Foxes battled Oswego East, a team
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  they lost to by thirty nine percent in December, to
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  an eight point game Thursday, then turned around with the
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  win Saturday. We're just fighters, Joan said. Six active bodies
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  has forced Wensts to get a little creative in practice.
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  Yorkville has had student managers occasionally jump in. She reached
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  out unsuccessfully to some former players and has talked to
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  some younger ones about coming up to varsity. More than anything, though,
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  it's this current band of six getting it done. So
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  proud of them. They have come together through the adversity.
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  Whence It said, You never want injuries to happen, but
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  usually something good comes from it. You don't want kids
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  to go down, but happy to see the girls starting
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  to click and fire on all cylinders. Oswego built its
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  halftime lead on the strength of Grant, the five foot
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  ten North Central recruits scoring ten points with shots at
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  the rim against a smaller Yorkville team, but Grant was
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  just limited to just one free throw and one three
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  point shot, the latter in the final two minutes in
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  the second half, we had the secondary rotation did a
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  good job guarding her. Jones said, our defense just picked up,
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  and then the offense just happened. Yorkville scored the first
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  five points of the second half and kept Oswego without
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  a field goal for the first five minutes. Our help
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  side defense in the first half was not where it
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  needs it to be, whence It said second half was
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  keep the pressure on and help side defense. A Johnson
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  basket for Oswego stopped to tend two Yorkville run, but
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  little Elena Newman came through with two huge plays from
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  there for the Foxes. The five foot four senior ripped
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  away a steal in front of the Yorkville basket and
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  laid in a score, and then she rebounded her own
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  miss and kicked out to mccab for a three pointer
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  and eleven point lead. That is her personality and her attitude,
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  wentz It said. She doesn't care what her size is.
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  She just loves playing basketball.