A HUGE thank you to our SENIORS for their hard work and leadership this year. You left your legacy at Central and the program. As the season comes to an end, know that you’ve passed along work ethic, passion and leadership to your teammates who were fortunate enough
Thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Mike Cessna. Mike has touched many lives in the Rocket bball family, as well as, in District 301. He will be missed.
Congratulations to the Sophomore team for their first place win at the Plano Christmas Tournament!
⭐️Tournament MVP - Tyler Kotwica
🏀All-Tournament Team
-Matthew Bending
-Colton O’Neill
Zac Lossau has been an important part of 🚀🏀 for several years! He provides support and encouragement for the team and assists the players in many ways! Don’t miss Zac’s final home game as a 🚀 as we celebrate our seniors tonight!
Our last Senior Spotlight of the season is
@DrewScharnowski
!!! As captain of the varsity team, Drew leads the Rockets and recently hit 1,000 career points!! If you haven’t seen this Belmont recruit in action, your missing out! Come watch Drew and his team take on Jacob’s tonight!
With tonight’s 22 point performance,
@pmayfield_24
takes over the
#2
spot on Burlington Central’s all time leading scorer list with 1,531 career points!
On the All-State First Team roster is our very own
DREW SCHARNOWSKI!!!!
Well-deserved Drew! 👏🏻 Your Central family is proud of you!!!🚀🏀
@DrewScharnowski
Congratulations to
@DrewScharnowski
and
@_MatthewLemon
on making
@MaxPreps
statewide leaderboard! 🚀Drew is
#16
in the state for Points per Game with an average of 20.6 and
#19
with 1.8 blocks per game! 🚀Matthew is
#20
with an average of 3.1 steals per game!
Was great to see alumni
@NicholasGourio2
from Lawrence Basketball play tonight! As a freshman, Nic had 7 points. Way to go Nic!!!
#22
Once a Rocket, always a Rocket🚀
Rockets come back from a 15 point deficit in the second half to beat North Ridge Prep. The Rockets went 3-1 in the Plano Christmas Tournament to take 5th. A HUGE thank you to Plano High School for the great hospitality, and once again, a very well-run tournament!
Congratulations to Mr.
@DrewScharnowski
for making Chicago Sun-Times 3A First Team All State. Continuing to be proud of you knowing what you’ve put in and getting recognized!
It's time for the final individual honors of the season.
Here's the 2023 Chicago Sun-Times All-State basketball team. The 10 best players across the state in each of the four classes.
Big day for
@DrewScharnowski
and his Rocket family as he officially signs with
@BelmontMBB
! Congratulations Drew! Belmont is extremely lucky to be getting such a hard working all around amazing human being!
Congratulations to our very own Coach Brett Porto on his 300th career win as varsity head coach!!!🎉 Coach Porto graduated Central in 2003 and hasn’t looked back since taking on the role in the 2008-2009 season. Congratulations on this milestone Coach Porto!🚀
Rockets advance to the Regional Championship tomorrow night at St. Francis at 7:00! Final 62-39
@mitchellpedrigi
to
@DrewScharnowski
to seal the deal with a dunk!
Looking for something to do today? Head out to the first ever Mike Cessna Classic. Honor a man who meant so much to CHS basketball and watch future 🚀’s ball up!
I am SO proud of
@Zac_Schmidt
for committing to
@MKE_TFXC
I am proud of all the hard work and dedication that got you here! Thank you
@coachwilch_MKE
and
@baslerjumps
for believing in Zac! I can’t wait to see what the future holds! Go Panthers!💛🖤💛
Belmont is extremely lucky to have such an intelligent, hard working and talented individual!! So excited to see what your future holds! Your Rocket family is proud of you! 🚀 🏀
Good conversation and laughs were the theme of the night at our second annual Mom/Son dinner at Livia last night! Thank you to Missy Pedrigi and Denise Lemon for organizing such a wonderful night!💙🚀🏀
Congratulations to Jake Johnson
@Jake23Johnson
for making Plano’s Christmas Tournament All-Tournament Team!
🎯 72 points with 13 three pointers
🏀 21 rebounds
🏃♂️11 steals
A BIG THANK YOU to Karen Shell for putting together a beautifully detailed Senior Night! Central is going to miss these two positive and hard-working young men!
Rockets WIN in an incredibly intense well played game against
@YorkvilleBB
Championship game vs Sterling 7:30 at Sycamore High School! Be THERE and be LOUD!!!!
🚀🏀
⭐️Tomorrow night 2/6 is SENIOR NIGHT!!⭐️
Come out to say goodbye to our seniors
@lucaslemon13
and
@Myl3s_L
at their final home game of their high school careers!!
Senior recognition begins at 6:30. There will be light refreshments after the game. Let’s give them a big send off!
Thank you to all the Rocket Alumni who came out to tonight’s win over McHenry! Former graduates between the years of 1949-2022 were present. What a great night! Once a Rocket, ALWAYS A ROCKET!!!🚀💙
🏀 PORK POWER
#IHSA
BOYS BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
🐷 Presented by the Illinois Pork Producers
📅 January 9th - 16th
🏅 DREW SCHARNOWSKI
🚀 Burlington (Central)
🔗All Season Winners⏩
We couldn’t agree more about Coach Porto being the FVC coach of the year! His players, parents, coaches & officials trust and respect him. He coaches with passion and class. A winning combination for the CHS basketball program. Congratulations on another great year!
@BrettPorto
Burlington Central suffered heavy graduation losses from its best team in school history, but the Rockets came right back and won their third Fox Valley Conference championship in a row. And Central coach Brett Porto is the Northwest Herald Boys Basketb...
⭐️🏀⭐️SENIOR SPOTLIGHT⭐️🏀⭐️
We want to thank Lucas Lemon for bringing his energy & positive attitude to every practice & game!! He works hard & brings everything he has onto the court! Thank you Lucas for what you have brought to the CHS basketball program!
Senior night is as much about the parents as it is the players! Thank you to these amazing parents for supporting 🚀🏀 all these years...feeder league, travel, middle school, and summer league! These parents do not miss a game or an event!!! 🚀🏀💙💙💙💙🏀🚀
I am excited to announce I will be continuing my academic and athletic career at Lawrence University. Thank you to all my friends, family, and coaches who have helped me along the way. All glory to God!
Tonight we celebrated
@KyleFischer04
being inducted into National Honor Society! We also congratulated Logan Andersen as he was honored for his dedication to NHS for the past 2 years! So proud of both your hard work on the court and off! 🚀🏀💪
Unbeaten Crystal Lake South leads the All-Fox Valley Conference boys basketball team with four players. Here is the list of the players who were named to the team.