BY GARY AHUJA (Special for Varsity Letters)The 16 games are done and the 24 teams are now settled into their three 8-team brackets (Championship, Showcase and Rivalry) following 16 games on day one of the Junior Girls Basketball Provincial Invitational Tournament!TOP HALF DRAWNo. 1 OAK BAY 56 No. 17 FLEETWOOD PARK 32LANGLEY — Facing an […]
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QUAD A: Game reports from Day 1 of the 2023 B.C. Quad-A girls basketball championships!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here with regularity for updated reports from this tier of play.STORIES BY GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)QUAD-ATOP HALF DRAWNo. 1 WALNUT GROVE GATORS 97 No. 16 MOUNT BAKER WILD 28LANGLEY – […]
DOUBLE-A: Game reports from Day 1 of the 2023 B.C. Double A girls basketball championships!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here with regularity for updated reports from this tier of play.TOP HALF DRAW STORIES BY BRAD ZIEMER (Special for Varsity Letters)BOTTOM HALF DRAW STORIES BY DAN KINVIG (Special for Varsity Letters)No. 1 […]
TRIPLE-A: Game reports from Day 1 of the 2023 B.C. Triple A girls basketball championships!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here with regularity for updated reports from this tier of play.TRIPLE-ATOP HALF DRAWNo. 1 ST. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL 80 No. 16 W.L. SEATON 36LANGLEY — Makena Anderson is not a player searching […]
Zeru Abera finds his perfect arc as last-second jumper gives STM first B.C. Jr. boys crown in 35 years, Knights’ fans storm LEC’s South Court in celebration!
LANGLEY — On Tuesday night, the game clock at the Langley Event Centre’s South Court tried its best to tell Zeru Abera that it was time to panic.It flashed the fact that only 11 seconds remained in a classic B.C. junior boys championship game tied at 42-42 between Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Knights and the […]
Tray bien! Tamanawis’ budding superstar Tray Belanger takes ‘giant steps’ in leading ‘Cats past Kodiaks and into tonight’s B.C. Junior boys title tilt!
No. 1 TAMANAWIS 69 No. 12 HERITAGE WOODS 55LANGLEY — On Monday night, just past the midway mark of the second quarter, at a juncture of the biggest basketball game of both teams’ season, it took but a second for one player to remind us all that he was ready to take on all comers.Tray […]
How STM’s tree of tradition makes 1988 seems like yesterday! B.C. Jr. Final 4 win over Brookswood sends Knights back to title game for first time in 35 years!
No. 11 ST. THOMAS MORE 66 No. 7 BROOKSWOOD 49LANGLEY — In the moments after victory, Corbin Castres said it as simply as he could.“There’s no words to describe what it feels like to represent our school,” the St. Thomas More Knights’ head coach said Monday night after leading his team past Langley’s Brookswood Bobcats 66-49 […]
On the marvels of the 1-3-1 trapping zone: A late defensive shift sparks Terry Fox senior Sukhraj Garcha to next-level play and gives Ravens the Fraser North Quad-A title!
LANGLEY — Utter the numbers ‘1-3-1’ to the Terry Fox Ravens’ bearded, crash-and-bang senior power forward Sukhraj Garcha, along with the simple word ‘trap’ and the result seems to not only include an induced, trance-like state but also an energy burst that is easily greater than a swig of fresh-squeezed orange juice.On Sunday night, with 4:21 […]
B.C. Boys Basketball Sweet 16 bracket reveal show set to air Sunday on TFSETV! Plan those team gatherings as Chris & Howard usher in March Madness!
LANGLEY — The B.C. senior boys basketball championship draw show is set to live stream on TFSETV.ca on Sunday beginning at 3:30 p.m.As has become an annual March Madness tradition, host Chris Kennedy and Varsity Letters’ sportswriter Howard Tsumura will bring you the official unveilings of (in order) the Single-A, Double-A, Triple-A and Quad-A 16-team […]
B.C. Junior Girls Basketball Championships 2023: Victoria’s Oak Bay Breakers, Abby’s Yale Lions earn 24-team event’s top two seeds ahead of Wednesday tip-off!
LANGLEY — Victoria’s Oak Bay Breakers have been installed as the favourites heading into the 41st annual B.C. junior girls basketball championships, which is set to begin its four-day run to Centre Court at the LangleyEvents Centre on Wednesday.The 24-team tournament is set to play the majority of its games at two local area high […]