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Aubrey Lamberti’s coast-to-coast drive and buzzer-beater sends Oswego East past Neuqua Valley in regional semi · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Aubrey Lamberty's coast to coast drive and buzzerbeater sends Oswego
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  Speaker 1: East past Nuqua Valley in regional semis Written by Joshua Weljes.
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett Aubrey Lamberty weaved her way up
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  Speaker 1: court in the final seconds Tuesday, waiting for a timeout
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  Speaker 1: to be called until her coach gave her clarity. He
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  Speaker 1: just said go and I was like, oh that, Lamberty said,
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  Speaker 1: just do everything I can get to the rim. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what was going through my head,
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  Speaker 1: just doing whatever I could. I turned and boom. Osuego
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  Speaker 1: East senior forward got the ball from teammate Nicole Warbinski
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  Speaker 1: on a rebound of a Nuqua Valley miss eighty four
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  Speaker 1: feet from the basket. She didn't give it up. Lomberti
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  Speaker 1: went coast to coast in the last ten seconds, her
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  Speaker 1: short runner in the lane, rolling through the basket as
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  Speaker 1: time expired to give Oswego East a thrilling thirty five
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  Speaker 1: thirty three win over Nukua Valley in the Class four
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  Speaker 1: A Benet Regional Semifinal. I was coming across half court
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  Speaker 1: thinking he might call time out. Lamberty said, I turned
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  Speaker 1: the corner and just went. Oswego East coach Aby Coreto
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  Speaker 1: indeed had a timeout to burn, but he chose not
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  Speaker 1: to use it. Why would he? At times the Wolf's
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  Speaker 1: best defense is Lamberti, the program's all time leading scorer,
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  Speaker 1: getting the ball and just going. I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: she hesitated because she had the layup. Originally, she could
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  Speaker 1: have got way closer to the hoop. Correto said, I'll
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  Speaker 1: call the time out if I want to call it.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought we get the ball, we go. There
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  Speaker 1: is less people on defense. Desirae Merritt scored fifteen points
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  Speaker 1: and Lamberti had ten points and ten rebounds for Oswego
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  Speaker 1: East eighteen ten, which advanced to face Benet in Thursday's
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  Speaker 1: regional final. Nelli at Clifford scored sixteen for Nukua fourteen seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: The Wildcats look set up for the last shot after
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  Speaker 1: Nukeua's Emerson McManus stole in and bounds pass with a
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  Speaker 1: minute left. Nukua milked the clock while Oswego East gave
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  Speaker 1: three fouls after a timeout with seventeen one seconds left,
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  Speaker 1: Clifford missed a contested jumper from the right wing with
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  Speaker 1: around ten seconds remaining. It was an open shot. I
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  Speaker 1: missed it. Maybe shot the ball too soon, Clifford said,
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  Speaker 1: you don't make them all. Hats off to them. They
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  Speaker 1: were able to get the ball down the court in
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  Speaker 1: four seconds. Merritt, playing with four fouls made it a
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  Speaker 1: tough look for Clifford. A Wisconsin softball commit Julia Sheppard
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  Speaker 1: started out guarding Clifford and helped hold her to six
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  Speaker 1: for seventeen shooting, but Merritt switched on her late. Dessii's
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  Speaker 1: defense was amazing and Nichole's rebound. The whole team doing
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  Speaker 1: the little things is what it possible, Limberty said. For
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  Speaker 1: much of the game, Nukea was defense was the story.
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  Speaker 1: As we Go East routed the Wildcats seventy four to
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  Speaker 1: forty three on January twelfth, but Nukwa looked like a
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  Speaker 1: different team in the rematch. The Wildcats, with their run
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  Speaker 1: and jump pressure defense in the half court, held Oswego
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  Speaker 1: East scoreless the last four to fifty percent of the
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  Speaker 1: first half for an eighteen thirteen halftime lead. The last
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  Speaker 1: half of the season, we've been playing like this, NUKO
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  Speaker 1: coach Mike Williams said, we beat Naperville Central. We had
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  Speaker 1: Waalbonsi within three with about a minute and a half left.
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  Speaker 1: It's a group of seniors and only one of them
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  Speaker 1: is playing basketball at the next level. Williams said. Clifford,
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  Speaker 1: Nukea's best player, wouldn't have played if the game was Monday,
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  Speaker 1: throwing up with the flu. She missed her first five
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  Speaker 1: shots Tuesday, but hit back to back threes for the
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  Speaker 1: halftime lead, and then she kept it going with two
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  Speaker 1: makes out of halftime. Clifford and Merritt, who scored eleven
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  Speaker 1: of her fifteen in the second half, both made tough
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  Speaker 1: shots in fourth quarter that featured four ties. Definitely not
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent, Clifford said, I was trying to conserve
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  Speaker 1: my energy. Definitely had to adjust my shot thinking about
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  Speaker 1: it differently. Lamberti held to just three points at half,
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  Speaker 1: made a three pointer on Emerit assist on the first
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  Speaker 1: possession out of halftime, But it was US We Go
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  Speaker 1: East defense that held Nuques scoreless the last forty five
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  Speaker 1: to third quarter that allowed the Wolves to crawl ahead
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  Speaker 1: twenty five to twenty four on a Merit three pointer.
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  Speaker 1: They were more up on us at the three point line,
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  Speaker 1: not letting us cut to do things we did in
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  Speaker 1: the first game, Lamberti said. Lamberti looks forward to the
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  Speaker 1: next game. We've never been able to make it to
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  Speaker 1: the second game in my four years, she said. It
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  Speaker 1: feels so good, so excited. Bney beat Plainfield East sixty
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  Speaker 1: six twenty four in the first semi final. Bridget Ravenberg
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  Speaker 1: scored fourteen points, had Lee Angler eleven and Emma Briggs
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  Speaker 1: ten for the Red Wings.