Geneva – At the end of the previous month, St. Charles North was trapped in the spiral one downwards.
North stars closed on January with a hurry to disadvantage.
In his first game of February, St. Charles North Senior Forward Jake Furtney took cases into his hands – literally.
“I replaced my free throw routine before the St. Charles East game, and when it actually started clicking,” said about his concrete performance from Strip in a double -point win on St. Charles East, “Furtney said about his concrete performance from a strip in a wins of double digits over St. Charles East.” “I just changed it, to put a bottleneck in it, as I am going into my shooting pocket. It helped me a lot.”
This is still when North Stars started changing their season.
Furtney was again rotating his free throw on Wednesday, knocking all the eight attempts to finish Geneva with 20 points in a 50–46 win over Geneva.
“People are playing well at the right time,” said St. Charles North Coach Tom Polyn. “We did not give up on our 1-3-1 zone, which we kept in this season. We kept working on it every day. We are focusing in detail on turning point defense. We are sharing the ball even more aggressively. I think we have developed confidence at the right time.”
St. Charles North Senior Forward Parker Renke added 19 points, which included seven in the fourth quarter to push late by the Vikings due to the warm shooting of Junior Guard Jack Haton.
“We all knew that this game was going to grow up for us for the playoffs,” Rainke said. “We all worked hard today and it was shown. It is fun when both me and Jake are killing our shots. It is big for us. We are starting to be at the peak at the right time. I think it will help us and will gain momentum for the playoffs in Batavia.”
North Stars (11–17, 4–10) consisted of the season series with Vikings (16–13, 6-8), and now won four times in their last six matches. As a team, North Stars led the fertney, hit 18 -off -19 attempts from the free throw line. Furtney, an all-set tight end, which committed to play football for Illinois last month, last month gave his team a 46-42 gains with 55.5 seconds with a gain of 46-42 seconds on a three-point game as a favorite walk-on. Renke added two late free throw to Jeet for snow.
“I am excited to hit them again today (them) today and perhaps it helped us seal the game because our free throw shooting was very good today,” said Furtney. “I am glad we got a win in the playoffs for speed. I am excited to see what we do.”
Vikings were dishonestly stunned with troubles, but Haton almost led Vikings to win an exciting return, finishing three 3-pointers with 19 points in a interval of 53 seconds in the last two minutes of the game.
“I think I just kept shooting late in the game because I am a shooter and started killing them, but it was a little late,” Honon said. “I wish I could hit them first.”
Vikings, who hosted Minuka at 7 pm on Thursday, scored nine points from Hudson Kirby to shut down the regular season.
Geneva coach Scott Henig said, “We did not shoot well, but we looked good.” “The biggest concern was our energy. I did not think we have worked very hard from the gate-go. We are playing well, but it was disappointing. I will blame them. Credit to get ready to go to them. They shot outstanding from the free throw line.
“Jack has been one of our best players throughout the year. He is one of the best players at the conference. He did a good job on him quickly. I want him to be more aggressive in the matter of attacking intervals and shooting balls. He got upset with dishonesty. We did not play enough to win tonight.”
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