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Jayden Riley’s game-winning shot in final minute sends Yorkville Christian past Pontiac into sectional final · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Jade and Riley's game winning shot and final minute sends
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Christian pass Pontiac into sectional final. Written by Joshua
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  Speaker 1: Welch and this article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlett. Jadeen Riley's mid range
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  Speaker 1: game is exquisite. It is one of the elements in
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  Speaker 1: the Yorkville Christian Seniors game that separates him from other
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  Speaker 1: point guards. Riley's always had it in the bag and
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  Speaker 1: kept it even as he's added layers. With his career
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  Speaker 1: on the line, Riley went to the well. He caught
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  Speaker 1: a pass on the left wing from Trey Alford. Riley
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  Speaker 1: got a downscreen from Blake Wells and drove into the
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  Speaker 1: center of the lane. Riley stopped on a dime and
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  Speaker 1: rose for a tie breaking jumper just inside the free
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  Speaker 1: throw line with forty six seconds left. Yorkville Christian never
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  Speaker 1: looked back, gutting out a fifty forty four win over
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  Speaker 1: Pontiac in Wednesday's class to a Seneca Sectional semi final.
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  Speaker 1: When I got the ball in the lane, I work
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  Speaker 1: on that every day, Riley said. It's something I work
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  Speaker 1: on every day, go in the gym every morning, every day. Riley,
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  Speaker 1: in SIU Edwardsville recruit, had twenty eight points, seven rebounds,
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  Speaker 1: and three assists. He rebounded two Pontiac three point misses
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  Speaker 1: after his go ahead shot the first an Indians shot
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  Speaker 1: for the lead, and was four for four from the
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  Speaker 1: free throw line in the final seconds. The pressure was
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  Speaker 1: on after Pontiac's Ben Melchers drilled a tying three pointer
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  Speaker 1: to make it forty four to forty four with one
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  Speaker 1: forty eight left, after Yorkville Christian had led by five.
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  Speaker 1: Riley didn't mind it a bit. That's a great feeling.
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  Speaker 1: I love pressure, Riley said. I've been dealing with this
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  Speaker 1: since I was little, especially with the coaching staff, Coach Alford,
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  Speaker 1: coach Ray. Since I was little, he always just told
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  Speaker 1: me that I got to make a play. Even if
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  Speaker 1: I missed it and we lost the game or made it.
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  Speaker 1: He always gave me the confidence. Pontiac had employed an
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  Speaker 1: a Meeble like zone defense for much of the game,
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  Speaker 1: in large part to contain Riley's penetration. Yorkville Christian shot
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  Speaker 1: three for nineteen from three point range against it in
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  Speaker 1: the first half, but Pontiac twenty one to nine, switched
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  Speaker 1: to Manda Man when it got down in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter and never went back to zone and Yorkville Christian
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  Speaker 1: coach Aaron Silvern will take Riley against anyone, man on man.
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  Speaker 1: We needed the best player in the state to be
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  Speaker 1: the best player in the state, Severn said, and I'm biased,
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  Speaker 1: but we needed him to make plays. There's not a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot that I can draw up. We needed big
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  Speaker 1: players to make big plays, and he did. Yorkville Christian
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  Speaker 1: twenty three to ten, is in a sectional final for
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  Speaker 1: the third time in school history, first since winning the
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  Speaker 1: Class one A state championship in twenty twenty two. The
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  Speaker 1: Mustangs played Bishop McNamara Friday night, and they overcame deficits
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  Speaker 1: of seven points in the second quarter and five in
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  Speaker 1: the third to get there. The Mustangs had two starters
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  Speaker 1: with three fouls and Riley with two at halftime, a
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  Speaker 1: big free throw disparity at half, and cold shooting, but
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  Speaker 1: they closed the third quarter on a nine to two run,
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  Speaker 1: Riley's runner sending Yorkville Christian into the fourth ahead thirty
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  Speaker 1: four to thirty two. Our boys played with poise down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch, Severeign said, We've been in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: tough situations this year. It was nice to see a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of growth. As far as that goes, We're
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  Speaker 1: just happy to still be playing. We don't take that
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  Speaker 1: for granted. Jordan Purvis scored eleven points and Caden Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: had twelve rebounds for Yorkville. Christian Purvis missed four of
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  Speaker 1: his first five to three point attempts, but hit back
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  Speaker 1: to back threes from the right wing for a forty
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  Speaker 1: thirty four lead two minutes into the fourth. It helps
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  Speaker 1: that I have the best point guard in the state.
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  Speaker 1: He's always finding me in the right spots. He draws
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  Speaker 1: so much attention. Purvis said, I just live in the
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  Speaker 1: gym mornings, nights, middle of the day shooting. That's where
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  Speaker 1: it comes from. And Riley scored nineteen percent of twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight points in the second half. He appeared frustrated at
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  Speaker 1: times with a lack of calls for contact on drives
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  Speaker 1: and Pontiac's zone kept the pace more to its liking.
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  Speaker 1: But Riley picked up his pace in the second half
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  Speaker 1: and found his spots. They were hawking him a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: and he was trying to get guys involved. Severn said,
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  Speaker 1: we were setting the ball screen on the high guy,
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  Speaker 1: and we said at halftime, Jr. You're the best mid
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  Speaker 1: range shooter in the area. Get to your hit spot
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  Speaker 1: and hit that. He made good reads and made plays.
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  Speaker 1: Pontiac's Caden Mashing scored seventeen points but missed a clean
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  Speaker 1: three point look for the lead after Riley's go ahead shot.
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  Speaker 1: Masching scored eleven in the second quarter to give his
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  Speaker 1: team a twenty four to twenty half time lead. We
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  Speaker 1: came in at the half and said, look, guys, you're
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  Speaker 1: taking their best punch. We'd have crazy foul trouble and
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  Speaker 1: hadn't made a shot and were chasing four points. Severn said,
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  Speaker 1: we were fine. We had seen worse. Our kids just
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  Speaker 1: battled and found a way.