The final week of the B.C. high school basketball season is now underway with Day 1 of the 2023 B.C, boys basketball championships.Please check back here throughout the day for continual live game report updates on this tier.DOUBLE-ATOP SIDE DRAWSTORY BY STEVE FROST (Special for Varsity Letters)1 BRENTWOOD COLLEGE 97 NO. 16 ARCHBISHOP CARNEY 65LANGLEY […]
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TRIPLE A: Game reports from Day 1 of the 2023 B.C. Triple-A boys basketball championships!
The final week of the B.C. high school basketball season is now underway with Day 1 of the 2023 B.C, boys basketball championships.Please check back here throughout the day for continual live game report updates on this tier.STORIES BY BRAD ZIEMER (Special for Varsity Letters)TRIPLE A(All games at Centre Court)DAY 1SWEET 16TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ADAY […]
QUAD A: Game reports from Day 1 of the 2023 B.C. Quad-A boys basketball championships!
The final week of the B.C. high school basketball season is now underway with Day 1 of the 2023 B.C, boys basketball championships.Please check back here throughout the day for continual live game report updates on this tier.ALL STORIES BY HOWARD TSUMURAQUAD-A(All games at Arena Bowl)DAY 1SWEET 16TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANO. 1 SEMIAHMOO 116 NO. […]
“Hey Coach Ebe, some season, huh?” From lessons learned as guest coach at Sacramento Kings camp, to magical year at West Van, Paul Eberhardt leads Highlanders into B.C. Sweet 16 clash against Rich Chambers & Terry Fox Ravens!
WEST VANCOUVER — He was bold enough as a high school senior back in the earliest days of the 1980s to step forward, take his own team and declare his major for life: Basketball coach.And this past fall, when the opportunity arose to attend the NBA training camp of the Sacramento Kings as a guest […]
Riverside 70 Walnut Grove 52: How looking past the obvious and thinking outside the coaching box helped Sussex & Rapids beat Pemberton & Gators for the 2023 B.C. girls Quad-A hoops title!
LANGLEY — The hardest thing to do this season in the B.C. girls high school basketball world was to avoid concentrating on the obvious.And as so many coaches around this province would ultimately discover, paying too much defensive attention to perhaps the greatest scorer to ever grace our midst was ultimately not the answer to […]
Let the madness begin! Plot your four days of B.C. senior boys basketball heaven at the LEC! As we prep for a Wednesday top, here’s all four Sweet 16 draw in hi-res format!
LANGLEY — Fun to take a peak inside at Arena Bowl on Sunday afternoon at the Langley Events Centre.The floor is in and the anticipation begins for tip-off to the 2023 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Hope you’ll visit and re-visit here as you plan your schedule around the action with the draw from all four […]
Brookswood Bobcats top Oak Bay, win B.C. junior title behind talented trio of Grade 8 starters Nohr, Vande Ven and Lehnhoff!
LANGLEY — The Brookswood Bobcats junior girls basketball team can hit its share of threes, but it’s most recognizable trait is the talent of its own Big Three.Jordyn Nohr, Ashley Vande Ven and Emma Lehnhoff not only combined for 45 points in leading No. 3-seeded ‘Cats past the No. 1-seeded Oak Bay Breakers of Victoria […]
BC Triple A championship: The Lenz legacy grow! Malia scores 41 points, joins sister Marin as AAA MVP’s following Abby Panthers win over SMUS!
By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – It was an historic night for B.C. senior girls basketball Saturday at the Langley Events Centre.The Lenz legacy was cemented as Grade 12 Malia led the team her dad, Prentice, coaches to a second Triple A title since 2020 as Abbotsford Senior held on for a dramatic […]
Double-A: Titans, indeed! On road to a B.C. title, West Van Mulgrave’s dominate opposition in commanding fashion!
By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – The runaway freight train that was the Mulgrave Titans roaring through Langley Events Centre the last four days easily ran over and through the last obstacle in its tracks on Saturday afternoon.The West Vancouver school’s senior girls basketball team won the Double A provincial championships by crushing […]
Just call her Little Magic! Like LA Lakers famed 1980 Finals switch, Riverside point guard Sussex posts up, turns tide as Rapids top Burnaby Central for finals date with Gators!
LANGLEY — If you’ve watched Riverside Rapids’ point guard Avery Sussex for any amount of time over her senior varsity basketball career, you can’t help but be struck by the level of versatility and adaptability she brings to the fore as her team’s feisty point guard.And at no time over her career has that versatility been […]