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- 0:05Speaker 1: Aubrey Lomberti sets Oswego East career scoring record as Wolve's
- 0:09wind thriller against min nook Up. Written by Joshua Weld,
- 0:16this article is being read by an automated voice brought
- 0:19to you by Everlett Aubrey Limberti took a couple of
- 0:23steps after she scored her historic basket and stopped. Teammate
- 0:29Annabel Williams pointed her toward a jubilant Oswego East bench
- 0:33as Fellows senior Desiree Merritt jumped into Lamberti's arms. Other
- 0:37teammates mobbed Lamberti, jumping up and down around her. I
- 0:41was kind of shocked, Lamberti said, I felt the support
- 0:44of my teammates. Put it on there five minutes, flip
- 0:48it over the other five minutes. You're done. Then the
- 0:51key the key to this. You tent it, bring it inside,
- 0:55tent it, put a couple of pieces of foil over it,
- 0:58tanted for about five to ten minutes. That keeps it
- 1:01so juicy. And I gotta tell you, I've won my
- 1:04wife over on this. My son, who did not really
- 1:07eat meat, absolutely loves it. Asks for steak every week.
- 1:10So that is my Steak Advice Jandle lists the surprise
- 1:14party in proper fashion. Limberty swished two free throws with
- 1:19ten point two seconds left, ceialing Aswego East seventy one
- 1:22to sixty seven win over visiting Minnooka in a Southwest
- 1:26Prairie Conference thriller. So exciting to get the record and
- 1:30a lot of fun, Lamberti said, I just had to
- 1:33stay focused at the end and block everything out, not
- 1:36let anything get in the way of that. It's obviously
- 1:38a big win for US. Merritt scored twenty three points
- 1:42and Lamberti eighteen for Oswego East twelve to six six,
- 1:46the one which won to stay a game back of
- 1:48Bowling Brook in the SPC. The Wolves overcame a monster
- 1:52effort from Kent State commit Madelin Kuiper, who scored thirty
- 1:56five from minnook fifteen to six six'. Two bertie came
- 2:01Into friday's game tied With christine corpos at one three
- 2:04hundred and four career points for most In Oswego east program.
- 2:07History not that she, KNEW i had no, Clue lamberti.
- 2:11Said my dad always asks me IF i want to
- 2:14know WHERE i, Am BUT i always tell, him, NO
- 2:16i just want to play my, game and when it,
- 2:18comes it. Comes that unassuming nature doesn't come as a
- 2:22surprise To Oswego east Coach Abe, coretto who has now
- 2:25Coach lamberti for four. YEARS i, mean what can you.
- 2:29Say she was CONFERENCE mvp last, year but she does
- 2:31it in a way that's not quite. Noticeable coreto, SAID
- 2:35i call it The Larry bird. Effect people were surprised
- 2:37at how good he. WAS i think some people are
- 2:39surprised at how Good aubrey is and all that she
- 2:41does for. Us fellow four year Starter, merrit who scored
- 2:46her own one thousandth point In, december isn't surprised at
- 2:50WHAT lamberti can, do and she was in on the Surprise.
- 2:54Friday merritt scored eight points in the first quarter to
- 2:57Keep Oswego east within seventeen, fourteen While lamberti missed her
- 3:01first four. Shots it was exhilarating to see her do,
- 3:05It merritt, Said we've been playing together for four. YEARS
- 3:09i was definitely trying to get her points right off the.
- 3:12Bat lamberti scored thirteen of her eighteen in the second.
- 3:16Half her driving layup with three sixteen, left Giving Oswego
- 3:19east the lead for good at sixty three sixty. One
- 3:23After caper scored on a drive with two minutes left
- 3:26to Close minnoka within. Two lamberti made a tough driving
- 3:30score over the six foot One caper as the shot
- 3:33clock was winding down to make it a two possession.
- 3:35Game at a step up and lead my, Team lamberti.
- 3:38Said coach was saying to be, aggressive to take the
- 3:41ball to the hole when they pressured. Me the two
- 3:44teams were tied fifty two to fifty two after three,
- 3:47quarters and min Nook ah twice led in the, fourth
- 3:50the second time at fifty nine to fifty eight On
- 3:52Jael hamilton's three pointer with four pointy seven, left but
- 3:56The indians had three turnovers in a four possession stretch
- 3:59while The wolves surged. Ahead two good teams back and forth.
- 4:03GAME a few things went against us in the fourth.
- 4:05Quarter minnoka Coach John plasher said we gave up too
- 4:09many layups and had too many. Turnovers can't do that
- 4:12in a game like. That kuiper scored twenty four of
- 4:15her thirty five in the first, half many of them
- 4:18Off Oswego east. Turnovers playing the point Of minnica's one
- 4:21to three to. One minnika led thirty eight to thirty
- 4:24three at, half But Oswego east went ahead forty five
- 4:26to three on A merit three, pointer one of The
- 4:28wolves ten in the. Game it was really hard to
- 4:31deal with that one to three to one And kuiper's.
- 4:34Unbelievable coreto, said we moved the ball a lot better
- 4:37in the second, half and girls were hitting, shots and
- 4:39not Just lamberti And. Merit As WeGo east bench outscored
- 4:43Min noooka thirteen to, two and we were missing a
- 4:47girl who's been Starting Inspire. Fisher she's in concussion. Protocol
- 4:50she's been helping us a. Lot coreto, SAID i Thought
- 4:53Sam herrick And annabel did some great things, tonight contributing some,
- 4:56buckets diving on the floor to get those fifty to
- 4:59fifty balls critical. Points it was a dog fight in
- 5:03an odd scheduling. Quirk Oswego, east which is now on
- 5:07sixth straight plays At minnooka On tuesday in its next.
- 5:10Game this one was, Important pert, said we want to
- 5:13win conference and they're one of the better teams in our,
- 5:15conference so we needed. It