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AURORA | Scoreboard and schedule for the 2025 Class 5A state ice hockey playoffs, which began on Feb. 21, 2025. Teams with Aurora players bold and uppercased:
Courtney Oakes is Aurora Sentinel Sports Editor. Reach him at sports@sentinelcolorado.com. Twitter/X: @aurorasports. IG: Sentinel Prep Sports
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2025 CLASS 5A STATE ICE HOCKEY PLAYOFFS
Top-four seeds (first round byes): 1. Poudre School District (16-1-2); 2. Monarch (11-5-3); 3. Valor Christian (12-7); 4. CHERRY CREEK (11-6-2)
FIRST ROUND (Feb. 23-24)
Game 2: No. 9 Ralston Valley (8-11) vs. No. 8 Mountain Vista (11-7), 7:40 p.m., Feb. 22, South Suburban Sports Complex
Game 4: No. 12 Lewis-Palmer (11-8) vs. NO. 5 REGIS JESUIT (10-7-1), 8 p.m., Feb. 21, Family Sports Center (Hamilton Rink)
Game 6: No. 6 Heritage 4, No. 11 Chatfield 0
Game 8: No. 10 Castle View (9-9-1) vs. No. 7 Denver East (10-8-1), 5:45 p.m., Feb. 22, Big Bear Ice Arena
QUARTERFINALS (FEB. 25-26) at South Suburban Sports Complex
Game 9: Ralston Valley/Mountain Vista winner vs. No. 1 Poudre School District (16-1-2), 7:30 p.m., Feb. 25
Game 10: NO. 5 REGIS JESUIT (11-7-1) vs. NO. 4 CHERRY CREEK (11-6-2), 5:10 p.m., Feb. 25
Game 11: No. 6 Heritage (15-4-1) vs. No. 3 Valor Christian (12-7), 5 p.m., Feb. 26
Game 12: Castle View/Denver East winner vs. No. 2 Monarch (11-5-3), 7:30 p.m., Feb. 26
SEMIFINALS (March 1) at Ed Robson Arena (Colorado College, Colorado Springs)
Game 13: Game 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner
Game 14: Game 11 winner vs. Game 12 winner
CHAMPIONSHIP (March 3) at Magness Arena
Game 15: Semifinal winners, 7:30 p.m.
Courtney Oakes is Sports Editor and photographer with Sentinel Colorado. A Denver East High School and University of Colorado alum. He came to the Sentinel in 2001 and since then has received a number… More by COURTNEY OAKES
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