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Neuqua Valley’s Cole Kelly takes over in second half, scores 36 to take rematch with Oswego East · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Nukua Valley's Cole Kelly takes over in second half, scores
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  Speaker 1: thirty six to take rematch with Oswego East. Written by
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  Speaker 1: Not this time, not in my house. That was what
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  Speaker 1: was going through the head of Nukua Valley star Cole
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  Speaker 1: Kelly and his teammates Friday night as they geared up
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  Speaker 1: to play an Oswego East team that handed the Wildcats
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  Speaker 1: their only loss early this season in the Class four
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  Speaker 1: A regional final at Niqua Valley. The visiting Wolves sank
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  Speaker 1: a three pointer at the buzzer in the first half
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  Speaker 1: and then closed the gap to six to start the
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  Speaker 1: third quarter. But what little momentum they had disappeared when
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  Speaker 1: Kelly scored inside and then followed with a steal, a
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  Speaker 1: bucket and an and one. It was just the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of a dominant d second half in which Kelly scored
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  Speaker 1: twenty points with strong drive after strong drive, powering the
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  Speaker 1: Wildcats to an eighty fifty one victory and a trip
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  Speaker 1: to Wednesday's sectional semi final against Bowling Brook. Kelly finished
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  Speaker 1: the game with thirty six points and seven rebounds, and
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  Speaker 1: Illinois commit Mason Martin added twenty two points as the
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  Speaker 1: squad improved to thirty two to one on the year
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  Speaker 1: and avenged that early loss to US we Go East.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty twelve, NUKA advanced faced bowling Brook on Wednesday in
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  Speaker 1: a sectional at bowling Brook. Obviously, this was a revenge
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  Speaker 1: game for me, said Kelly, who talked with reporters while
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  Speaker 1: signing autographs and taking photos with fans. They hold our
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  Speaker 1: only loss of the year. I was going to do
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  Speaker 1: anything I could to win this game. The sophomore sharpshooter
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  Speaker 1: knocked down a pair of threes as the Wildcats charged
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  Speaker 1: out to a twenty five to twelve lead after one quarter,
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  Speaker 1: but the rest of his points came in the paint.
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  Speaker 1: Time after time, Kelly drove hard and worked his way
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  Speaker 1: to the rim, banking in several buckets off the glass
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  Speaker 1: and adding a fourth quarter dunk to put an exclamation
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  Speaker 1: point on his big night. It wasn't the three point line.
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  Speaker 1: They were guarding me at the three point line, so
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  Speaker 1: I was getting to the rack, scoring in ways that
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  Speaker 1: I know that I can, and it led to a
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  Speaker 1: thirty point victory. Tonight, Kelly said, I've had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of games where I fill it up beyond the arc,
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  Speaker 1: but to have a game where I score thirty six
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  Speaker 1: on mostly twos is something I don't do normally. I
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  Speaker 1: think playing at home and in front of your home
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  Speaker 1: crowd is something special and obviously all thirteen of us
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  Speaker 1: were hungry to get this one back. It was the
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  Speaker 1: first regional crown for Kelly after Nukua Valley came up
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  Speaker 1: short his freshman year, losing to Wallbonci Valley in the
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  Speaker 1: regional final. The duo of Kelly and Martin went on
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  Speaker 1: creates havoc for opponents. Those guys are really good. Oswego
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  Speaker 1: E's coach, Ryan Velaskaz said, credit to Nukua Valley, that's
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  Speaker 1: a great program. I've known Todd Sutton for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: He's just a tremendous coach who gets the most out
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  Speaker 1: of his players, and those two guys gave us some
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  Speaker 1: fits tonight. Even so, the Wolves held their own for
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  Speaker 1: more than a half to Paul recruit Mason Lockett's three
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  Speaker 1: at the close of the first half made the score
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven and the deficit dropped to six after Lockett,
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  Speaker 1: who scored eighteen points opened the third quarter with a layup. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I thought we did have some momentum going into that third.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to come out and control the first three minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and it just didn't go that way, said Velaskaz, whose
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  Speaker 1: teams have fallen in the regional final three straight years.
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  Speaker 1: But these are great young men. They came to work
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  Speaker 1: every single day. Martin helped cut the basketball net down
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  Speaker 1: and was wearing it around his neck while talking about
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  Speaker 1: Kelly's dominant effort on Friday. That was super fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: He's obviously a great player. I think he's the best
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  Speaker 1: player in Illinois, Martin said. He makes everybody on the
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  Speaker 1: floor better if he's not scoring, He's one of the
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  Speaker 1: best passers I've ever played with. Sutton has witnessed his
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  Speaker 1: star set up teammates with many a great pass in
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  Speaker 1: the second half of the regional final. He saw a
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  Speaker 1: different side of Kelly's game. Throughout the year, We've tried
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  Speaker 1: to develop multiple options, so it's not the Cole Show
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  Speaker 1: and the Mason show, Sutton said. So he's had to
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  Speaker 1: defer to Danny Mikuda and Luke balgro and Carter Coviello
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  Speaker 1: and Darius Brockington led us in scoring the other night
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  Speaker 1: against Naperville North, so his points have been shrinking. Tonight
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  Speaker 1: he said, screw it, I'm taking over, and that he
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  Speaker 1: did