AURORA | A look back at some of the key games, tournaments and happenings in Aurora prep sports from Jan. 20-26, 2026, as compiled by Sentinel Sports Editor Courtney Oakes:
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THE WEEK PAST IN AURORA PREP SPORTS, 1.20-1.26.26
MONDAY, JAN. 26: James Coleman scored 47 points, while DeKimbae High had 16 as the Vanguard Classical East boys basketball team topped Rocky Mountain Lutheran 71-66 in overtime. …The William Smith boys basketball team improved to 5-0 in the 3A/2A Foothills League with a 66-57 OT win at Nederland. …The Regis Jesuit ice hockey team won a matinee against Heritage 4-2 on goals from Andrew Brennick, Dylan Nash, Beau Paton and Cedar Regan plus Marc Brousseau’s 31 saves.
SATURDAY, JAN. 24: Reece Brown made three 3-pointers in the fourth quarter and tied for game-high honors with 23 points for the Eaglecrest boys basketball team in a 68-59 Centennial League home win over Smoky Hill. Clayton Kalimba tallied 15 and Demari Manns Davis 13 for the Raptors, while Cruz Valdez matched Brown with 23 points for the Buffaloes, who also got 12 from Daniel Boyd. …Naomi Emecheta and Kiarra Spellman had 11 points apiece for the host Eaglecrest girls basketball team as it downed Smoky Hill 43-39 in Centennial League win. Ari Boyd’s 16 points led the Buffaloes. …The Gateway girls basketball team earned a 42-21 non-league home win over Hinkley. …Nakhai Miller won the 190-pound bracket and Aiden Ritz (106) and James Pearson (126) were runners-up for the Eaglecrest boys wrestling team in its championship victory at the Northglenn Norse Invitational. …The Vista PEAK Prep boys wrestling team had a handful of top-six placers — led by Gavin Fifita, who took third at 157 pounds — to finish 11th at the Mile High Classic at Thomas Jefferson High School. Matthew Canales took fifth at 190 pounds for 16th-place Hinkley. …The Eaglecrest girls wrestling team finished fourth among 46 scoring teams at the Tiara Challenge hosted by Douglas County High School with Parice Jones’ 170-pound title leading five top-eight placers. Amelia Bacon of Vista PEAK Prep (125) and Regis Jesuit’s Remington Zimmerer (120) won championships. …Owen Kulczewski, Matthew Lopez, Davis Ritter and Christian Romine scored goals for the Cherry Creek ice hockey team in a 4-3 road win over Monarch.
FRIDAY, JAN. 23: Marceles Duncan poured in 37 points to help lead the Rangeview boys basketball team to an 82-66 City League road win at Denver East that also included 10-point efforts from Anthony Andrew, Conrad Marshall Jr. and Aidan Perez. …The Grandview boys basketball team built a double-digit lead in the second half, but had to survive two last-second shots by Cherokee Trail for a 47-46 Centennial League road win. Ismael Kabongo paced the Wolves while Charlie Atkinson had nine, including seven in the pivotal third quarter, while Jordan Mitchell had a game-high 15 for the Cougars. …The Regis Jesuit boys basketball team rolled to a 76-34 Continental League victory over Ponderosa as 10 players got in the scoring column.Eric Fiedler’s 24 points led the way for the Raiders, who got nine apiece from Anthony Lynett and Michael Price. …The Cherokee Trail girls basketball team edged away from Grandview in the fourth quarter and evened its Centennial League record at 1-1 with a 66-56 home victory. A trio of Cougars scored in double figures in Milania Gutierrez (18 points), Aaliyah Broadus (14) and Hannah Hazim (10), while the Wolves got 20 fromSorrelle Kamgang plus 13 from Ava Chang. …Celie Dengler tallied 18 points andMolly Schimmer had 17 for theRegis Jesuit girls basketball team in a decisive 66-32 Continental League win over Ponderosa. …The Vista PEAK Prep girls basketball team posted a 57-25 road win at Canon City with matching 16-point performances from Laila Armstrong and Knakai Starks. …Despite 29 points from Michaela Halton, the Overland girls basketball team had its winning streak snapped with a 70-55 loss at Cherry Creek. …The Cherokee Trail boys wrestling team competed in a tri-dual at Fort Lupton that included a 58-22 win over the hosts. Elijah Van Horn, Owen Babcock, Zachary Stevens, Andrew Dienhart, Cody Perkins and Youdas Aghouiles won by fall for the Cougars. …Adrian Pacheco, Chris Chavez, Abraham Garcia, Monzair Arabi, Landen Barnett andKent Luft recorded pins for the Vista PEAK Prep boys wrestling team in a 54-17 dual win over Highlands Ranch. …Liam Corcoran had a goal and an assist and Matthew Lopez andDavis Ritter also had goals for the Cherry Creek ice hockey team, which scored a goal in all three periods of a 3-1 win over Denver East.
THURSDAY, JAN. 22: Alex Flores led a foursome of double-digit scorers for the Aurora Central boys basketball team with 25 points in a 78-56 Colorado League win over Thornton. Jamari Fleming added 14 points, while Fikiri Hawazi had 12 and Deon Davis Jr. 11 for the Trojans. …The Lotus School For Excellence boys basketball team kept rolling with a 74-18 win over Aurora West College Prep Academy. …TheAurora Central girls basketball team eased to a 50-17 Colorado League victory over Thornton with the help forJamaea Johnson-Gonzalez’s 16 points, plus 12 forBella Lumba and 11 for Andena Torres. …TheGrandview boys wrestling team rallied from a 12-0 hole after two matches to defeat rivalCherokee Trail 54-18 in a high-stakes Centennial League dual match.JR Ortega, Kyle Menuez, Anthony Segura, Marques Lawrence and Leland Day secured wins by fall for the Wolves to overcome pins by Elijah Van Horn and Charlie Rider to open the match. …The Eaglecrest boys wrestling team dropped just one bout on its way to a 73-6 dual match road win at Vista PEAK Prep that included wins by fall from Aiden Ritz, Cade Picone, Dane Sims, Aisley Retallack, Tayte Tahja and Charles Swick. A pin from Kelvin Marfo earned the lone points for the Bison. …The Smoky Hill boys wrestling team downedAurora Central 65-18 in a non-league dual match that featured pins from Tagg Charity, Jovani Galvan, Dominick Crowe, William Ramirez, Anthony Nguyen, David Lopez and Ty Benedict to offset the wins by fall from the Trojans’ Happy Htoo, Alexis Gonzalez and Federico Amezquita Lara. …Sailor Matejovsky, Lily Homant, Sydney Babi, Olivia Fabbricatore and Alyssa Apolinar earned pins for the Eaglecrest girls wrestling team in a 66-16 win at Vista PEAK Prep. Amelia Bacon and Khloe Yizar countered with wins by fall for the Bison. …Only two bouts were contested between the Smoky Hill and Aurora Central girls wrestling teams and each took one (Maria Pascual Francisco and Tremoni Scaggs, respectively), as the Buffaloes prevailed 24-6. …The Regis Jesuit girls swim team topped Chaparral 128-58 in a Continental League dual meet that saw the Raiders get two victories from Elsa Osborne and Lexi Stramel to go with a relay sweep. …The Smoky Hill girls swim team finished behind Cherokee Trail at the recent Smoky Hill Invitational, but earned a 118-67 road dual win in the Cougars’ home pool. Mya Noffsinger and Cameryn Walkup were two-event winners for the Buffaloes, while Natalie Daum andJJ Siah were the individual victors for the Cougars. …Makenna Dyk’s two event wins and firsts in both freestyle relays weren’t enough for the Grandview girls swim team in a 102-84 Centennial League dual loss at Arapahoe.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 21: The Rangeview boys basketball team built a 40-point lead over George Washington after one half and went on to an 87-51 City League home win that saw four Raiders crack double figures. Marceles Duncan had 27 points and 11 rebounds to pace Rangeview, whileAidan Perez added 16 points, Archie Weatherspoon V 14 and Anthony Andrew 10. …Matthew Samson had a game-high 17 points and Ismael Kabongo added 15 for the Grandview boys basketball team, which started fast and held off Eaglecrest for a 55-51 home win in the Centennial League opener for both teams. Clayton Kalimba had 14 points, Reece Brown 13 and Demari Manns Davis 10 for the balanced Raptors in defeat. …Jordan Mitchell tallied 23 points to help the Cherokee Trail boys basketball team earn a 63-50 win at Arapahoe to open Centennial League play. Caleb Jensen (11 points) and Cameron Hopkins (10) joined Mitchell in double digits. …The William Smith boys basketball team edged Loveland Classical 51-50, while Aurora West College Prep Academy tipped Ascent Classical Academy 46-44. …The Overland boys basketball team got outscored by eight points in the fourth quarter to fall to Mullen 61-57 in a Centennial League home game. …The Grandview girls basketball team outscored Eaglecrest 27-5 in the final quarter of the Centennial League opener and prevailed 58-38 at home. Ava Chang tallied 23 points, Sorrelle Kamgang had 11 and Kendall Tracy 10 for the Wolves, which was enough to outdistance the Raptors, who were led by Kennedy Spellman with 17 and Kiarra Spellman with nine. …The Smoky Hill girls basketball team earned its first win over Cherry Creek in an estimated 20 years with a 53-45 home victory that was paced by former Bruin Ari Boyd with 28 points, while Taylor Dirden added nine and Leilani Gordon eight. …The Overland girls basketball team held off Mullen for a 52-49 Centennial League home victory. …The Cherokee Trail girls basketball team suffered a 67-58 road loss at Arapahoe to begin Centennial League play. …Hugo Gonzalez had a pin, while Illia Fialkov, Roman Chavez andJuan Valdez Martinez won by technical fall for the Overland boys wrestling team in a 37-35 dual match win againstAurora Central. The Trojans got the majority of their points via forfeits to go with a pin from Logan Echeman and a tech fall from Andy Torres. …The Overland girls wrestling team won all six of the matches wrestled — as Ellena Behre, Mihret Shimels, Isabela Perez Perez, Rabbona Khalifaeva and Jackelyne Torreblanca Oseguera had pins — in a 54-12 dual match win overAurora Central. …The Hinkley girls swim team earned 98 points to finish in front of visiting Abraham Lincoln (28) and Adams City (16) in a tri-dual victory. The Thunder took all three relays, while Lilly Carter and Leessy Diaz and Galilea Patino won two events individually and Valeria Jaquez had a first in diving. …A goal by Dylan Nash in overtime delivered a 1-0 victory for the Regis Jesuit ice hockey team over Chaparral. Beau Paton assisted on the game-winner, while Easton Sparks had a shutout on 26 saves.
TUESDAY, JAN. 20: Eric Fiedler made four 3-pointers and went 14-for-16 from the free throw line on his way to 46 points and also pulled down 11 rebounds to help the Regis Jesuit boys basketball team to a 68-60 Continental League win at ThunderRidge. Joseph Haubert added eight points for the Raiders. …The Aurora Central boys basketball team used a 17-point effort from Deon Davis Jr. plus 16 from Alex Flores as a significant boost to a 61-44 Colorado League win over Adams City. …A 27-point fourth quarter lifted the Gateway boys basketball team over Thornton 72-67 in a tight Colorado League contest. …The Lotus School For Excellence boys basketball team poured in 36 points in the opening quarter en route to an 82-46 win over Kennedy. …Celie Dengler and Khloe Miller scored 10 points apiece, while Tiana Rogers and Molly Schimmer each had nine for the Regis Jesuit girls basketball team, which held on to beat ThunderRidge 48-44 in a Continental League home game. …In a low-scoring Colorado League contest, the Aurora Central girls basketball team picked up a 41-26 win over Adams City. …The Smoky Hill girls swim team earned a 131-42 Centennial League home dual win over Mullen behind 10 event wins, including a relay sweep plus two firsts apiece from Mya Noffsinger, Sophie Noffsinger and Cameryn Walkup. The Buffs’ other individual win came from diver Lyla Bailey. …Sadie Ballou won the 100 yard breaststroke for the Eaglecrest girls swim team in a 187-116 Centennial League road dual loss at Arapahoe.