It wasn’t necessarily what Corky Card saw that had him encouraged about his McHenry boys basketball team’s ability to rally after spotting Burlington Central a double-digit lead in the first quarter.

It was what he didn’t see.

McHenry’s players weren’t whining, which meant they hadn’t given up hope of winning.

“I don’t want to see the palms of your hands,” said Card, McHenry’s coach.

At game’s end Friday night, the Warriors’ hands were up, high-fiving.

Nathan Ottaway scored a game-high 19 points, Adam Anwar came alive in the third quarter, scoring 10 of his 15 points, and McHenry got its first Fox Valley Conference win of the season, 53-47 over the visiting Rockets.

“We just know if we can play our style of basketball, it will give us the win,” Ottaway said. “So even when we go d

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