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As the game was seemingly slipping away from Waubonsie Valley, the way Jared Brownridge began attacking the hoop he looked plumb mad. “I was just mad like, ‘Man, I want to get back in this game, I want to win this game so bad.’ Because we had lost the first game in the first round of the regionals the last three years I’ve been here, and I didn’t want it to happen again,” he said. It didn’t. As Warriors coach Steve Weemer said, “We got the monkey off our back” with a 51-48 overtime win over rival Metea Valley on Wednesday in a Class 4A Oswego East regional semifinal. The Warriors advance to Friday’s regional final against No. 3 seed Neuqua Valley.