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  Speaker 1: Ethan Vall Aswego build off twenty two win season with
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  Speaker 1: big summer. Written by Bob Nurang, this article is being
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  Speaker 1: Oswego junior point guard Ethan Vall is accustomed to battling
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  Speaker 1: long odds. Two years ago, Vall played for a twelve
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  Speaker 1: win team coming off a four win season to leading
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  Speaker 1: the Panthers to twenty two wins in twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: to twenty six. Vall helped lead the resurgence with several
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  Speaker 1: tremendous performances, including twenty nine and thirty points in a
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  Speaker 1: pair of overtime wins over Oswego East. Vall said the Panthers,
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  Speaker 1: despite several new faces, played solid basketball in the June
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  Speaker 1: live period to show the potential for another twenty win season.
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  Speaker 1: Brothers Trey Alfred and Jadeen Alford both have transferred to
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  Speaker 1: Oswego from Yorkville Christian. I feel like the team had
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  Speaker 1: a really solid June overall valsa. We competed well and
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  Speaker 1: showed a lot of growth as a group. There were
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  Speaker 1: definitely moments where we could have been better, but I
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  Speaker 1: think we kept improving and learned a lot throughout the
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  Speaker 1: month as we go. Coach Nick Oraham said his players
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  Speaker 1: exceeded his expectations. We've got a few newcomers, juniors and
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  Speaker 1: transfers who had to get acclimated to what we are
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  Speaker 1: doing offensively and defensively. Oraham said our best performance was
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  Speaker 1: on the last day of the live period. We beat
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  Speaker 1: DILLASL and Deerfield. We held some really good players to
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  Speaker 1: low point totals and shared the ball well. I was
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  Speaker 1: encouraged by the progress we made daily. The kids shared
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  Speaker 1: it better and relied on each other more and more defensively,
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  Speaker 1: Oraham said. Vall was among several players who shined in
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  Speaker 1: June eth then shot it and shared it well all summer.
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  Speaker 1: Oraham said Cole did great job defensively affecting shots, Jaden
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  Speaker 1: and Trey did a great job of scoring from three levels,
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  Speaker 1: and Graham Schwab did so many little things well. As
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  Speaker 1: long as we remained bought into our goals, we should
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  Speaker 1: be fine. I'm looking forward to the competition this year.
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  Speaker 1: We will be well prepared and ready to face any
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  Speaker 1: challenge that lays ahead of us. The six foot three Vall,
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  Speaker 1: who topped the one thousand point career mark and has
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  Speaker 1: an offer from Eastern Illinois. Averaged twenty one point six
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  Speaker 1: point seven point zero rebounds, three point zero assists, and
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  Speaker 1: two point zero steals per game last season. Vall said
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  Speaker 1: he was happy how he played in June for the Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: For me personally, I feel like I played pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: Vall said. It was definitely a great learning opportunity. I've
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  Speaker 1: had ten plus coaches reach out to me after the
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  Speaker 1: live period and had a lot of good feedback. Now
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  Speaker 1: into July, I'm looking forward to making an impact in
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  Speaker 1: many ways and leading and playing defense at a high level.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, I'm really focused on improving my consistency and
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  Speaker 1: becoming more quicker, faster, and stronger, and working on my
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  Speaker 1: defense and making sure I'm making the right reads to
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  Speaker 1: help my team win. Oswego senior Graham Schwab, a three
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  Speaker 1: sport athlete, agreed with Vall on how the Panthers performed
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  Speaker 1: on the court. I feel like our team competed in
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  Speaker 1: every game we played, Schwab said, although we would have
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  Speaker 1: liked to win them all, we have a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: new players and right now we are just looking to
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  Speaker 1: make strides together as a whole. For the season, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I played fairly well. I'm always going to
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  Speaker 1: bring energy and play hard, which I feel like if
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  Speaker 1: you do that, it makes your play seem better if
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  Speaker 1: it isn't. I'm looking to improve on overall shooting and
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  Speaker 1: dribbling to make the most of my scoring ability.