AURORA | The 2014-15 winter prep sports season is officially open on Monday, as the Colorado High School Activities Association allows regular season play a couple of weeks after practices began.
Boys and girls basketball, girls swimming, wrestling and ice hockey get the go-ahead to begin, with a pair of 7 p.m. girls hoops games — Gateway at Rampart and Regis Jesuit at D’Evelyn — getting things going for Aurora teams.
Two Aurora teams claimed Class 5A state championships last winter, both from Regis Jesuit.
Coach Carl Mattei’s powerhouse Regis Jesuit girls basketball team — featuring six seniors signed with Division I programs — won a second consecutive title with a 60-34 dismantling of Fossil Ridge in March at the Coors Events Center in Boulder, while the Regis Jesuit girls swim team also repeated, though the Raiders had to win the last event of the state meet to hold off Fairview.
Among the other winter sports, the Overland boys basketball team advanced to the 5A Final Four before losing to eventual state champion Denver East, while both the Regis Jesuit and Cherry Creek co-op teams reached the ice hockey semifinals before going down to defeat.
On the wrestling mat, both Gateway’s Deyaun Trueblood and Regis Jesuit’s Grant Neal won 5A state championships, but Neal graduated and Trueblood transferred to Pomona ahead of his junior year.
Full 2013-14 Aurora Sentinel All-City Winter Sports Teams:
— Boys Basketball, here.
— Girls Basketball, here.
— Wrestling, here.
— Girls Swimming, here.
Courtney Oakes is Sports Editor of the Aurora Sentinel. Reach him at 303-750-7555 or sports@aurorasentinel.com. Twitter: @aurorasports. FB: Aurora Prep Sentinel
