DENVER | Fans of Aurora prep boys basketball, get your tickets for The Show immediately. Run, don’t walk.
Seven players from this season’s bumpercrop of talent around the city were selected to the Denver Nuggets’ 2013 Show all-star game on April 6 at Pepsi Center, and all will be on the same team.
An Aurora coach — Rangeview’s Shawn Palmer — will preside over a Blue Team that includes Aurora Central senior Carlton Hurst, Cherokee Trail senior Drick Bernstine, Eaglecrest senior TreShawn Wilford, Grandview senior Eric Garcia, Overland freshman De’Ron Davis, Rangeview junior Jeremiah Paige and Regis Jesuit junior Josh Perkins.
The Aurora players and the other 13 of Colorado’s best players from all classifications were selected by the Denver Nuggets with a panel of local media members.
The Blue team includes five of the top-11 scorers in Class 5A this season, including Nos. 1 and 2 in Perkins (25.2 points per game) and Colorado State signee Hurst (24.3), who both played in the Show game last season.
Among the five first-time Show selections from Aurora are Paige, whose 20.2 points per game ranked him sixth in 5A, along with Garcia (19.1) and Bernstine (19.0), who are 10th and 11th, respectively.
The 6-foot-8 Davis is only the second freshman picked in more than a decade of Show games, as he joins Denver East’s Dominique Collier, a junior guard who will play in the game for a third time this season.
Wilford is the only Aurora player still alive in the quest for the 5A state championship, as his Raptors knocked off Perkins’ Regis Jesuit team on March 9 at the Denver Coliseum to earn a spot in Friday’s semifinals against Mountain Vista.
Reach Sports Editor Courtney Oakes at [email protected] or 303-750-7555
2013 THE SHOW BOYS BASKETBALL ROSTERS
April 6, 3:30 p.m. at Pepsi Center
BLUE TEAM
Brady Baer, Akron; DRICK BERNSTINE, CHEROKEE TRAIL; DE’RON DAVIS, OVERLAND; ERIC GARCIA, GRANDVIEW; CARLTON HURST, AURORA CENTRAL; Kain Lucero, Pagosa Springs; JEREMIAH PAIGE, RANGEVIEW; JOSH PERKINS, REGIS JESUIT; Lake Reed, Poudre; TRESHAWN WILFORD, EAGLECREST
Coach: SHAWN PALMER, RANGEVIEW
WHITE TEAM
Colin Cantwell, Shining Mountain; Dominique Collier, Denver East; Chase Foster, Valor Christian; DJ Hanes, Wasson; Tyree Robinson, Denver East; Jordan Scott, Lewis-Palmer; Justin Smith, Lewis-Palmer; Jonathan Snow, Columbine; Luke Stratman, D’Evelyn; Brent Wrapp, Fairview
Coach: Damion Copeland, Wasson
