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Oswego, with Ethan Vahl honored for 1,000-point milestone, keeps on rolling with win over Yorkville · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego with Ethan Vall honored for a thousand point milestone,
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  keeps on rolling with win over Yorkville. 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. Ethan val lingered in the gym
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  long after Saturday's game was over, posing with family and
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  friends in front of a huge sign recognizing his one
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  thousand point achievement. It's a milestone many high school players celebrate.
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  Few do so before the conclusion of their sophomore season,
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  but Vall, Oswego's sophomore point guard hit one thousand in January.
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  He was recognized for it in a pregame ceremony. It's exciting,
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  Vall said. Not a lot of sophomores usually get this opportunity.
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  I'm blessed. Oswego two is in rarefied air these days.
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  The Panthers scored the first ten points of Saturday's game
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  with Yorkville and never trailed. Vall scored a game high
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  twenty one points in Oswego beat visiting Yorkville fifty six
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  forty three for its eleventh win in twelve games. Oswego
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  nineteen eight, ten to four. Southwest Prairie Conference, whose last
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  winning season was six years ago, is at its most
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  wins since the twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen season, the
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  program's last regional champion. We've been playing as a team
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  a lot lately, really together, Vall said. I trust my
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  teammates and they trust me. We've been on a roll.
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  That role seemed to start with Oswego's win over Oswego
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  East at the beginning of January, but really it traces
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  back to getting football players like starters Marianna Velasko and
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  Graham Schwab back in December. They bring a toughness to
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  the team and make winning plays. Sophomore Cole Jansen's and
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  junior Niko Djerkovic are posts that have improved as the
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  season progressed. The Panthers were all over the Foxes from
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  the start, jumping out to Leeds of ten oh in
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  sixteen to four. After a quarter. Velasco, Braden Barrowman, and
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  Jansen's each scored seven points for Oswego. It took a
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  while for those football guys to get acclimated. The kids
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  are buying in and playing hard. Oswego coach Nike or
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  Am said that was one of the more complete games
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  we have played. From a toughness standpoint. We did a
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  nice job rebounding, anticipating, passing lanes, sharing the ball. Gabe
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  Sanders scored thirteen points and Joey Joxtas had twelve points
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  and seven rebounds for Yorkville thirteen eleven, nine to five.
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  It was a disastrous start for the Foxes, who didn't
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  score for almost six minutes and had four players pick
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  up two fouls in the first quarter. It could not
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  go worse. Yorkville coach John Holakowsky said, I think we
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  had eight straight turnovers to start the game. We had
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  one shot for about six minutes. We didn't come ready
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  to compete at the defensive end, and we couldn't get
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  the ball in the paint. Vall scored ten of his
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  twenty one points in the first quarter. He only shot
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  two for nine from the three point line, but even
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  when his shooting is off, he brings so much more
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  to a RAMS Aswego team. He then is a huge
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  part of what we do. Nice to have a guy
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  that when things are breaking down, we can get the
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  ball in his hands and there is a sense of
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  calmness that we can still get a decent shot up
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  Oriam said, saw his first three go down. That always
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  helps a couple out there that he probably wishes and
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  knows should go down. Yorkville down eleven and a half,
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  closed to within thirty twenty four on a Nate coopan basket,
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  but Jaxtae was whistled for his third and fourth thousand
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  less than a minute. We were running our offense through him,
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  and then all of a sudden we get two fouls
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  that were fifty to fifty. That's the way it goes,
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  Holakowsky said, we got to start better. Tough weekend for us.
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  Both games to Oswego East Friday and Saturday's game started
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  off similar. Back to the drawing board. Oswego with the
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  win even the season series. Yorkville beat Oswego forty six
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  to forty three in December. The first week the football
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  players were back to me, all games are personal. We
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  take this one to heart. Vall said, they are technically
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  our rivals. We want to win this one. We didn't
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  get into a rhythm and that's a credit to them.
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  Holakowski said. It's a lot better team than when we
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  saw them in December. It's an Oswego team that looks
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  to be positioning itself for a good sectional seed that
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  comes out Thursday. We lost to downers Grove South. They're
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  probably going to be four, but I think we should
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  be five. O Ram said. We've beaten Aperville North, we
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  beat Mattia, we beat WALBONSI, we have beaten Oswego East.
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  All the playing fields got the most recent one with Yorkville.
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  Some of our losses were early on with the football
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  players