Hampshire hit their 3-pointers, outrebounded Cary-Grove by a large margin and were almost perfect at the free-throw line in the fourth quarter to beat the Trojans, 44-36, in their Fox Valley Conference boys basketball game Tuesday at Elroy Fitzgerald Gymnasium.

Burlington Central moved to 20-3 overall and a perfect 11-0 in the Fox Valley Conference with a hard-fought 47-38 victory over Dundee-Crown in league play in Carpentersville Tuesday night.

The Burlington Central boys basketball team continued its dominance of the Fox Valley Conference Friday night with a 52-32 win over Hampshire Friday.

Hampshire had battled to different leads for much of Tuesday night before Jacobs came back to tie or take a lead each time. That was the flow of the game, and with the game tied at 35 with over four minutes left in the game, the Whip-Purs needed one last run.

Burlington Central returned to the win column with a vengeance Tuesday night on Rocket Hill, beating Fox Valley Conference rival Crystal Lake South, 67-45.

Prairie Ridge, which had shot well in the first half and made five 3-pointers, cooled off in the third quarter, allowing Cary-Grove to creep closer.The Wolves stuck with their tough man-to-man defense and solved their shooting woes in the best way possible, with a couple more 3s.

Burlington Central’s fourth quarter rally fell short Monday afternoon in the MLK Tournament championship game on Rocket Hill.Trailing Lyons Township 39-30 with 6:18 left to play, the Rockets went on a 12-6 run to narrow the gap to 45-42 with 1:10 left on the clock. Central’s hopes of a game-tying 3-pointer were dashed when Billy Bach converted two free throws to widened Lyons’ lead back to five.Once again with 10 ticks left on the scoreboard, the Rockets pulled within 47-44 on an Andrew Scharnowski putback. But once again, Bach came through at the charity stripe, sinking two more shots to ice the 49-44 win for Lyons.

Wheaton North crashed in on Zac Schmidt trying to trap him on his first pass.Schmidt, Burlington Central’s senior, calmly dribbled out of the jam and found Gavin Sarvis flying from left to right along the baseline.Sarvis, from there, did what he perhaps does best. He finished at the rim for a thunderous fourth quarter alley-oop slam to put a capper on the Rockets’ 58-38 victory over Wheaton North on Saturday at Burlington Central’s MLK Tournament.

Veteran seniors Gavin Sarvis, Zac Schmidt, Nick Carpenter and Carson Seyller are names that come to mind when thinking of the 2021-2022 Burlington Central Rockets boys basketball team.You can add 6-foot-7 junior center Andrew Scharnowski to that list.

Dundee-Crown finished the game with a 10-0 run, defeating Cary-Grove 44-40 in a Fox Valley Conference boys basketball game Wednesday night.