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Fox Valley boys basketball area leaders
Updated Mar 11, 2019 9:04 PM
Here’s the boys basketball leaders for the 2018-19 season in the Fox Valley area.
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Fourth quarter proves costly for West Aurora
Updated Mar 15, 2019 5:58 PM
Meeting for the fourth time in the last five years in the Class 4A boys basketball postseason, West Aurora and Bolingbrook were engaged in yet another epic showdown before a capacity crowd at the iconic East Aurora gym Tuesday evening.
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Scouting Fox Valley boys basketball sectionals
Updated Mar 4, 2019 11:40 PM
Geneva, St. Charles North, South Elgin, West Aurora and Burlington Central are still alive heading into this week’s Class 4A and 3A boys basketball sectionals.
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West Aurora holds on for regional championship
Updated Mar 1, 2019 11:14 PM
The third consecutive Class 4A regional championship for the West Aurora boys basketball team was seemingly in hand Friday night.
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West Aurora avoids monumental upset
Updated Feb 26, 2019 10:34 PM
West Aurora reserve guard Logan Mont entered the Class 4A Oswego regional semifinal with impeccable timing midway through the fourth quarter.
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Mitch Mascari and his Geneva teammates earned the No. 1 seed in the Class 4A Bartlett sectional.
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Scouting Fox Valley boys basketball postseason
Updated Feb 23, 2019 8:35 PM
Summer league, AAU, fall league, countless practices and three months of high school games served merely as prelude.
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West Aurora’s Kelvin Balfour during varsity boys basketball action at Aurora Wednesday night.
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West Aurora tops South Elgin for UEC title
Updated Feb 20, 2019 11:08 PM
Dimtrious Bezos, perhaps the seventh or eighth man for the Blackhawks, was the star of the night in the 57-52 West Aurora victory over South Elgin.
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Salter scores 28 in West Aurora’s win over Metea Valley
Updated Feb 17, 2019 12:21 AM
West Aurora forward Hezzy Salter will play running back at Quincy University next fall.
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West Aurora hits 100 in win over Streamwood
Updated Feb 8, 2019 11:46 PM
The points accumulated like the famous Who song about the pinball wizard Friday night in Streamwood.
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West Aurora’s Salter plays big vs. Larkin
Updated Feb 6, 2019 11:17 PM
Hezekiah “Hezzy” Salter is accustomed to playing against bigger opponents for the West Aurora boys basketball team.
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West Aurora stays unbeaten in Upstate Eight
Updated Feb 1, 2019 11:07 PM
Jules Williamson was the leading scorer for the second straight East Aurora-West Aurora Upstate Eight Conference boys basketball game this season.
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Fox Valley boys basketball statistics
Updated Jan 31, 2019 9:19 PM
Fox Valley boys basketball statistics
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St. Charles East surprises West Aurora
Updated Jan 26, 2019 9:42 PM
St. Charles East senior Cody Mitchell said a collective fire in the belly ignited a 67-55 victory over red-hot West Aurora at the 26th Annual Jim & Sylvia Roberts Night of Hoops at Batavia on Saturday.
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West Aurora catches fire at West Chicago
Updated Jan 25, 2019 10:09 PM
West Aurora defeated West Chicago in an Upstate Eight Conference boys basketball game.
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Geneva heads into 2nd half tied for DKC lead
Updated Jan 24, 2019 10:19 PM
So far, so good. Geneva (19-1, 6-1) finished the first half of the inaugural DuKane Conference boys basketball season tied for the top spot with Wheaton North (13-7, 6-1).
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West Aurora beats Glenbard East for ninth straight
Posted Jan 19, 2019 1:00 AM
West Aurora defeated Glenbard East in an Upstate Eight Conference boys basketball game.
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Jacob Schauer
Wheaton North’s Schauer picks up MVP honors
Updated Jan 16, 2019 7:13 PM
Jacob Schauer of Wheaton North is this week’s Daily Herald boys basketball MVP.
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West Aurora stands tall against Elgin
Updated Jan 15, 2019 10:42 PM
West Aurora defeated Elgin in an Upstate Eight Conference boys basketball game.
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West Aurora extends Upstate Eight lead
Updated Jan 11, 2019 10:19 PM
West Aurora shooting guard Marquise Walker was not about to let the Glenbard South boys basketball team back into the Upstate Eight Conference race.
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Larkin’s Damari Wheeler-Thomas takes the ball into the defense of West Aurora’s Logan Mont, Moshe Rogers and Dimitrios Bazos Tuesday in Aurora.
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West Aurora tops Larkin for 6th straight win
Updated Jan 8, 2019 10:39 PM
The two Fox Valley reigning Class 4A boys basketball sectional-champion teams met in an Upstate Eight Conference game for the first time in almost 22 years Tuesday night in Aurora.
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Plenty of good to be found in 1st half of boys basketball season
Updated Jan 7, 2019 7:44 PM
Cover high school sports for a living and you get the same question from the barber, from the dental hygienist, from the kid bagging groceries.
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West Aurora dominates second half to upend Streamwood
Updated Jan 4, 2019 11:37 PM
The opening second-half possession spelled doom for Streamwood in its upset bid in Aurora.
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Rogers comes through for West Aurora in Pontiac consolation final
Updated Dec 29, 2018 8:33 PM
Moshe Rogers drained a 3-pointer at a crictical juncture and then added a layup to give West Aurora the lead for good against Danville in a 70-64 victory.
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West Aurora aims for consolation title at Pontiac
Updated Dec 28, 2018 11:36 PM
Certain boys basketball coaches of the Pontiac Holiday Tournament were incredulous that West Aurora and Oak Park-River Forest were seeded eighth and ninth, respectively, in the field.
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Walker unstoppable in first East Aurora-West Aurora game
Updated Dec 21, 2018 11:22 PM
Marquise Walker took an instantaneous liking to the iconic East Aurora gym Friday night.
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Jacobs, Marengo kick off holiday tournament season
Updated Dec 20, 2018 11:09 PM
The boys basketball holiday tournament season starts with a flurry this weekend and hits with the full force of a winter storm the day after Christmas.
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West Aurora’s press rattles South Elgin
Updated Dec 18, 2018 10:43 PM
The West Aurora boys basketball team sprung a late trap on host South Elgin in a 65-61 Upstate Eight Conference win on Tuesday.Several of them, actually.
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West Aurora’s Hezekiah Salter grabs a rebound against Bartlett during varsity boys basketball at Gordon Kerkman Gymnasium on the campus of West Aurora High School Tuesday night.
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West Aurora holds off Bartlett
Updated Dec 11, 2018 10:45 PM
The length of the West Aurora postgame talk said everything about how the Blackhawks felt about Tuesday’s 60-55 home win over Bartlett.
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Shooting woes over for West Aurora’s Walker
Updated Dec 7, 2018 10:00 PM
The shooting woes that have recently plagued Marquise Walker came to a symbolic close as the first quarter ended in his home debut for the West Aurora boys basketball team Friday night.
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Cold shooting costs West Aurora in title game loss
Updated Nov 23, 2018 10:58 PM
The West Aurora boys basketball team truly had to go to Plan B Friday night in Oswego in the Hoops for Healing Holiday Tournament championship game.
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Walker scores 27 in West Aurora debut
Updated Nov 19, 2018 10:39 PM
The West Aurora boys basketball preseason scouting report came to fruition Monday night at Oswego.
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West Aurora’s Camron Donatlan is the 2017-18 Daily Herald Fox Valley Male Athletes of the Year.
John Starks | Staff
Simply put, West Aurora’s Donatlan did it all
Updated Jun 9, 2018 2:39 PM
West Aurora’s Camron Donatlan is the 2017-18 Daily Herald Fox Valley Male Athlete of the Year.
ROSTERback to top
No. Name Class Height Weight Position
1 Brown, Traevon Senior 6-0 G
2 Sawyer, DaQuan Senior 5-9 G
3 Mont, Logan Junior 5-8 G
4 Rogers, Moshe Senior 6-3 F
5 Young, Sam Junior 6-1 G
10 Tennial, Amarius Junior 5-7 G
11 Balfour, Kelvin Junior 6-3 G/F
12 Kalmas, Cameron Junior 6-3 G
14 Motola, Axel Junior 6-5 F
15 Walker, Marquise Senior 6-0 G
20 Bazos, Dimitrios Junior 6-4 F
21 Cheeks, Davaris Senior 6-2 F
22 Salter, Hezekiah Senior 6-2 F
23 Nieves, Christian Junior 5-11 G
24 Shavers, Paul Junior 6-4 F
33 Cameron, Adonis Senior 6-4 C
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Address: 1201 W. New York St.
Aurora, Il 60506
Phone:630-301-5600
County:Kane
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