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Desiree Merritt’s huge 17-point second quarter sends Oswego East past Oswego · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Desra Merit's huge seventeen points second quarter sends os WeGo
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  East past Oswego Written by Joshua Welje, this article is
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  being read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  As desire, Merritt enters the final weeks of her high
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  school career, she can reflect on a unique legacy at
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  Oswego East. The senior guard is already fourth on the
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  program's career scoring list. Merrit, a four year varsity starter,
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  could wind up top two in scoring, and yet Merritt
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  has mostly seeded the spotlight to two teammates. Fellow senior
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  Aubrey Lomberdi recently became Oswego East all time leading scorer.
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  Maggie Luandowski, a teammate for three years, is third on
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  the scoring list thereby. Merit, for her part, doesn't mind
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  her place. I never think about it too much, she said,
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  I'm just gonna go out there and hoop regardless. I'm
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  glad I had teammates like that. We're gonna push to
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  get better. Merritt put her dynamic ability on display Tuesday
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  in her final crosstown game. She scored seventeen of her
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  twenty four points in a dazzling second quarter. Ironically, after
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  a scoreless first, Oswego East rolled past visiting Oswego fifty
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  four to twenty five to the Wolve's tenth straight crosstown win.
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  Merritt also had ten rebounds, three assists and two steals,
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  and Limberti ten points, six rebounds and five steals for
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  Oswego East sixteen ten nine four. Southwest Prairie Conference Destiny
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  Hick scored six points and Peyton Johnson had eleven rebounds
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  and five steals for Oswego thirteen seventeen four to ten.
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  Merritt missed her first four shots in the first quarter,
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  while Limberti scored all eight Oswego East points. Merritt drilled
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  a three pointer from the top of the key to
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  start the second quarter. Less than a minute later, she
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  sw another one from the left wing. She was just
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  getting started. Oswego East coach Albi Kereto has seen this
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  show before. As soon as she hit two of them
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  in a row, I'm like she's feeling it, Coretto said.
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  She is capable of that against anybody. She had a
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  fantastic game Saturday, a win against Naperville Central. Merritt is
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  indeed capable of going off at any time and in
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  a multitude of ways. She gave a sample of that
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  full package in that second quarter. She followed those two
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  threes with a pull up jumper in transition, then floated
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  a gorgeous tear drop of a jumper in the lane. Later,
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  she hopped to her left and knocked down a three
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  pointer with a defender right on her. Merritt hit six
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  of her eight shot attempts in the seventeen point explosion.
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  Crazy Merritt said, I don't think I've ever done something
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  like that before. Merritt's first three pointer gave Oswego East
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  the lead for good after a slow first quarter. The
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  lead was twenty eight to thirteen by halftime. I definitely
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  knew that I was hot after the second shot I made,
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  but I was just trying to continue to make the
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  right play. Merritt said. I told myself I had to
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  keep it going. This is a big game. I told
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  myself I had to keep it going. Oswego first year
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  coach Venita Parsons can relate to Merrit's mark at Oswego
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  East and her talent. Parsons start at Oswego East in
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  high school under coreto She also coached Merritt in seventh grade.
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  I knew she was going to be a stud since then.
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  Parson said. Her work ethic is great. She gets her
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  teammates involved, she gets her opportunities when she has them.
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  Kudos to her, Kudos to Kereto for coaching her up.
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  I think she's gonna go far with what she's got.
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  She has so much potential. Maybe Merritt's brilliance is overlooked
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  by sharing the spotlight with others, but Coretto said she's
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  noticed by people, including coaches. Merritt committed to the University
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  of Saint Francis and Juliet in the last few months.
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  I personally think when you talk about the star of
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  the team, we just had a lot of them, Caretto said.
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  For two years we had those three, and Aubrey and
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  Dez have been together for four Athletic wise, her and
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  Aubrey are so close in everything we've done that it's
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  hard to pinpoint who is the star. Merit, for her part,
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  has enjoyed being part of it with Limberdy for four years.
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  It's honestly been amazing to have someone like that. Merritt said,
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  she works so hard. We push each other she isn't
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  ready for it to be over either. Oswego East has
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  a potential tall task a regional at Benet, but the
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  Wolves opened eyes last Saturday with their win over Naperville Central,
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  like beneda state ranked team. If that doesn't show we're
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  a high caliber team, I don't know what does. Merritt said,
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  We're trying to do what we can to win. Anything
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  can happen.