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Wildcats tough to contain : Sports : Oswego Ledger-Sentinel : Hometown Newspaper for Oswego and Montgomery, IllinoisWildcats tough to contain
| Fourth quarter play proves difference as Oswego East ends season
| by Kristin Sharp
| 3/7/2013
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Delayed by 24 hours due to snow, the Oswego East boys' basketball team hosted No. 3-seed Neuqua Valley in the Class 4A Oswego East Regional semifinal on Feb. 27.
The Wildcats (27-2) lived up to their high sectional seed with a 61-41 win over the Wolves, who finish their season with a 14-14 overall record.
Neuqua Valley senior and Western Illinois-bound Jabari Sandifer scored a game-high 23 points against Oswego East. The Wildcats extended their season into this week by winning the regional championship, 69-61, over Waubonsie Valley last Friday.
"It was a three-point game at one point in the fourth quarter and Sandifer just scored in a row. We knew he was capable of doing that. He's a Division I basketball player," Oswego_East head coach Ron Murphy said. "We held him in check for the better part of the game. He made a one-man run at the end of the third quarter and did it to us again in the fourth quarter. After that, we were playing catch-up. They're not a team you want to pressure because he's so good with the basketball. It's not where we wanted it to end up."
Neuqua Valley was slated to face Benet in Wednesday's Bolingbrook Sectional semifinal, but that game was bumped to today, Thursday, as the Oswego/West Aurora game was postponed by snow on Tuesday and was played on Wednesday night. Results of that semifinal game were unavailable at press time.
Against Neuqua Valley, Oswego East senior CJ Vaughan scored 11 points to lead the Wolves.
"They did a better job of not leaving (Vaughan) and made his shots tough," Murphy said. "We just didn't hit some of our open looks. They're really good defensively and I think that's what separates them from other teams that aren't playing anymore. They're one of the better Neuqua teams I've seen."
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