The 27th annual East Aurora vs. West Aurora alumni basketball game will be Friday, April 11, at 6 p.m. at East Aurora High School, 500 Tomcat Lane in Aurora. Proceeds will benefit the Marie Wilkinson Child Development Center in Aurora. The public is invited. Admission is $10 for adults, $8
By Woodrow Carroll Last week basketball icon Jerry West died. Similar to so many stars, Jerry West left many memories to many fans. Much of what most fans remember about West centers around his time in the NBA with the Los Angeles Lakers.. Yet, similar to so many great athletes,
East Aurora’s Tom Okapal (red shirt), East class of 2011, battles a West Aurora defender in the 26th annual East-West men’s alumni basketball game at West Friday night.
East Aurora High School and West Aurora players are in a battle for a rebound in the 25th annual East-West alumni game at East Aurora Friday, April 21.
Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox gave a welcome back to boys basketball alumni at the varsity game Friday, Jan. 27 in a special night for one basketball alumnus in particular, Walter Downing, Class of 1981. “In his four years as a varsity starter, his teams collected 104 wins,”
By Bobby Narang Yorkville Christian High School senior guard David Douglas, Jr. is a player on the rise this Summer. Douglas learned all the ins and outs of becoming an elite player last season. He watched former teammate Jaden Schutt become one of the top players in the country last
A special needs student from Hope D. Wall Elementary School in Aurora puts up a shot Thursday, March 24, at Aurora University.
The shift on the horizon in sports is postseason play in high school and college basketball along with other Winter sports. The Big Ten Conference women’s basketball tournament dates are March 2-6 in Indianapolis and the men’s Big Ten basketball tournament will be March 9-13 in Indianapolis. High school girls
By Woodrow Carroll With football behind us for now and baseball still on the horizon, we can concentrate on something else.. Take nothing away from the National Basketball Association, however, college basketball almost always provides us with an interesting story, or two, to digest. Conference affiliations and the teams that
