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Oswego East’s Mason Lockett commits to DePaul: ‘I didn’t want to leave home’

Oswego East senior guard Mason Lockett, one of the state's top prospects in the Class of 2026, made his verbal commitment to DePaul on Sunday.

By Joshua Welge●

Yorkville basketball remembers long-time scorekeeper Tim Lowry ‘Everybody loved him’

Tim Lowry, a 1969 Yorkville graduate and boys basketball scorekeeper since 1999, is being remembered as a "Yorkville Fox, through and through" who was loved by everybody. Lowry died on July 16 at the age of 73. "It's going to be different without him."

By Joshua Welge●

Ethan Vahl’s 40-point game part of stellar June for Oswego sophomore guard

Ethan Vahl and his coach both agree that his first instinct is to pass the ball. But Vahl can also fill it up. The Oswego rising sophomore guard provided the latest evidence to that effect with a 40-point game the last weekend of June at the Romeoville Live Summer Shootout.

By Joshua Welge●

Mason Lockett, back healthy, set to lead Oswego East as one of state’s top senior prospects

Mason Lockett did not get the maximum opportunity last season to showcase himself as one of Illinois’ top prospects in the Class of 2026. He’s back now, however. That’s good news for Oswego East.

By Joshua Welge●

Yorkville’s Braydon Porter, Joey Jakstys primed to take next step as sophomores

Braydon Porter and Joey Jakstys’ assimilation to varsity basketball last season at Yorkville was gradual, but the two talented rising sophomores appear primed to lead the Foxes after putting their their names on the map with their performances at June live events.

By Joshua Welge●