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Freshman Kiana Ogulei’s big fourth-quarter shots send Yorkville Christian past Plano · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Freshmen Kiana Ogulay's big fourth quarter shots send Yorkville Christian
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  past Plano. This article is being read by an automated
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  voice brought to you by Everlett Keana Oguley is part
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  of a young Yorkville Christian starting lineup, surrounding Hope College
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  commit Peyton Wallen. Ogile is one of two freshmen who
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  start so to two sophomores, one of whom Avery Heron
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  FA One is back playing basketball after focusing on volleyball
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  the last three years. A freshman, sure, but Ogile has
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  no fear, which she demonstrated Wednesday. Ogley missed her first
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  four to three point attempts, part of a cold shooting
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  night across the board for both Yorkville Christian and Plano,
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  but she stuck three threes in the fourth quarter, and
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  those big shots boosted the visiting Mustangs to a thirty
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  eight thirty non conference win at Plano. Into the locker
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  room at halftime, I just had the mindset that I
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  needed to lock in, Oguley said, my shots weren't falling,
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  and at halftime I reset. I was like, Okay, I'm
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  just gonna play my hardest. If they don't fall, they
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  don't fall, but I'm gonna give it my all. They
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  indeed fell at an opportune time for Ogulay, who scored
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  eleven of her game high thirteen points in the fourth quarter.
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  Her first three pointer with seven eighteen left broke a
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  twenty three to twenty three tie to give Yorkville Christian
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  eighty seven the lead for good. She followed with back
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  to back threes to give the Mustangs a commanding thirty
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  six twenty eight lead with three forty six left, Particularly
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  in a game where points were hard to come by.
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  The teams, which were also tied sixteen sixteen at halftime,
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  shot a combined twenty four for ninety eight from the floor.
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  I try to think that the next shot will go down,
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  Oguley said. I'm almost waiting for the first shot. Once
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  the first shot goes down, it kind of lifts me up,
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  and then all my other shots go in. Ogulay Is
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  defense was a lyft for a Yorkville Christian team on
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  a night when its star was not at her best physically.
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  Wallin battling the flu, shot just four for seventeen, but
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  still managed eleven points, eleven rebounds, and five steals. We
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  didn't know until the middle of the game, she said,
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  I feel like I'm going to throw up afts. She'd
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  been sick all day and still had a double double.
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  In quote, Yorkfield Christian coach John McAdams said, she is
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  probably going to be upset with herself, but we're not.
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  The thing about Plano is they're well coached. They scouted us,
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  they played us in the summer, and they keyed on her.
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  They put their best defender on Peyton. You know, anytime
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  you come to Plano, you're going to play a tough team.
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  We're lucky to come out of here with a win.
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  Plano itself was shorthanded. Its own freshman point guard Lenia Vice,
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  turned an ankle late in the second half of a
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  loss to Caelin on Tuesday. We're hoping to get her
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  back by Monday. Plano coach Tristan Spivey said, it's tough
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  to not have her. We play again Thursday, and again
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  Friday games and four nights. We got some different girls
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  in there. Despite its offensive struggles, which included four for
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  twenty two shooting from beyond the arc and twenty one turnovers,
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  Spivey was pleased with the effort Jaden Long scored eleven points,
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  Jalen Brown eight points, and Chloe Rowe had six points
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  and eleven rebounds for the Reapers seven to nine. Proud
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  of my girls, Spivey said, I thought it was one
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  of our more complete performances in a while. York phil
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  Christian is a good team. They're probably going to win
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  another regional title. Peyton Wallen is one of the best
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  players in the area, and I thought we did a
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  good job defensively on her. York Phield Christian's win is
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  its second straight after going zero four as the smallest
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  school at the Montini Christmas Tournament and following that up
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  with a competitive fifty seven to fifty loss to Keenland
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  and mccadams was not surprised to see Ogile having a
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  big hand in it. After the Mantini tournament, she's been
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  a different player. McAdams said, that was a tough tournament
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  for us, the only one a school there. I think
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  Keana grew leaps and bounds from before we started the
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  tournament to the end. She's getting a little more aggressive,
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  a little more confident. She has the confidence to shoot
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  and we do too. The coaching staff tells her all
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  the time that even though she's a freshman and we
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  have a one thousand points scorer. We're looking for you
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  to shoot