With Heritage Woods' Joseph Thompson (24) and Benjamin Pearson defending, and Matthew Purdy (bottom left) taking a charge, Sullivan Heights' Ethan Hugall goes airborne during Elite Eight-round play at the 2023 B.C. junior boys basketball championships on Sunday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved) (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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No. 1 Tammy, No. 7 Brookswood, No. 11 STMC, No. 12 Heritage Woods! How a truly unique group will come together Monday night for the B.C. Junior Boys Final Four!

All our Final Four tickets have been punched and the 2023 B.C. junior boys semifinals have just two of its Top 10 seeds standing. We’ve got No. 1, No. 7, No. 11 and No. 12 remaining!QUARTERFINALSTOP SIDE DRAWNo. 1 TAMANAWIS 63 No. 8 ST. PATRICK’S 51LANGLEY — Sayvic Dhami’s shooting slump here at the 53rd […]

Lord Byng's Alex Dabrowski finds the going tough as he attempts to split the defence of Surrey's Sullivan Heights Stars on the opening day of the 2023 B.C. junior boys basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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WE’RE FINAL: Day 1 updates from the B.C. junior boys basketball championships! We open with 32 teams, we finish with eight!

LANGLEY — We’ve got our first live game reports of the day here from the 53rd annual B.C. junior boys basketball championships at the LEC.Please continue to check back through the evening for updates! We’ve also got a full scoreboard for today’s opening round games a the field attempts to pare down from 32 to […]

Terry Fox's Brendan Nightingale brought his scoring touch to the Ravens' biggest game of the season, a B.C. tourney-clinching win over the Burnaby Mountain Lions in the Quad-A Fraser North semifinals. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2022 All Rights Reserved)
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Punching B.C. tourney tickets: On Friday, here’s how Terry Fox, Heritage Woods, Kelowna and Dover Bay all found their way to The Big Dance!

LANGLEY — The beauty of the last week of February as it pertains to the B.C. senior boys high school basketball world?Many purists will tell you that it is within this window of zone playdowns and provincial championship qualification, that you actually get to see the best teams begin to touch their ceilings.Tonight, as we […]

Kiera Pemberton and Langley's Walnut Grove Gators are the No. 1 seed at Quad A heading into the B.C. championships March 1 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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Your road to the Final Four! B.C. girls high school championship brackets released for 4A, 3A, 2A tournaments! Here’s your personal guide to March Madness at the LEC!

LANGLEY — The B.C. senior girls basketball championships will pave three paths to championship finals beginning March 1 at the Langley Events Centre.On Wednesday evening, the Double-A, Triple-A and Quad-A Sweet 16 brackets were all revealed at TFSETV.caHere’s each of those brackets for you to plan your four days of excitement at the LEC.QUAD ATRIPLE […]

The top six teams at four tiers of B.C. boys high school basketball remained unchanged this week. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. boys ranks 02.22.23 edition: W.J. Mouat Hawks move into Quad-A Top 10, Kits Blue Demons continue late-season climb! Here’s the latest Top 10s at four tiers!

LANGLEY — The calm before the full-force storm of zone championships?That’s the pocket much of B.C.’s top senior boys basketball sat in this past week as the top six teams at all four tiers remain unchanged.There was plenty of jockeying going on behind the scenes, however, setting the stage for the 11th-hour stretch drive to […]

Burnaby South's Lordrikk Gutierrez (centre) looks to gain some separation in the open floor from Tamanawis Wildcats Mintu Chahal (left) and Gursewak Mann in second-round play last season on Day 1 of the 2022 B.C. junior boys championships at the LEC. Burnaby South eliminated Tamanawis in the Sweet 16 matchup. This season both teams are among the event's top four seeds. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved.
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Surrey’s Tamanawis Wildcats hold No. 1 seed heading into 32-team B.C. junior boys tournament! No. 2 Van College, No. 3 Bby South and No. 4 Sullivan Heights provide the push heading into Saturday’s opening tip-off at LEC!

No public high school from Surrey has managed to win the B.C. junior boys basketball championships.The Tamanawis Wildcats, installed as the No. 1 seed in the 32-team event set to tip off Saturday at the Langley Events Centre, have a chance to change all of that if they live up to their top billing within […]

John Oliver's Donna Pimentel sunk seven triples as the Jokers punched their BC tourney ticket with a win over the Pitt Meadows Marauders. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. senior girls basketball’s sudden-elimination Tuesday: We’ve got all the details as 10 team battled for their Last chance to the Big Dance!

LANGLEY — It all came down to one last-chance-to-the-big-dance moment for 10 B.C. senior girls basketball teams on Tuesday.With 27 of the 32 total teams already determined for the B.C. senior girls Quad-A and Triple-A championship finals, five sudden-elimination games took the spotlight Tuesday.The five winners will be plugged into their respective draws as part […]

Your author is set to be joined by host Chris Kennedy as TFSETV.ca presents the 2023 BC girls high school basketball provincial tournament draw show from the LEC. (Photo property Varsity Letters 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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On the road to BC girls Sweet 16 tip-off: First, it’s five Tuesday sudden-elimination games, then Wednesday’s 7 p.m. bracket reveal show on TFSETV.ca!

LANGLEY — It’s been an incredible regular season in the B.C. senior girls high school ranks, and all of that had led to two more days of final prep ahead of the Big Dance.So, before the B.C. junior, and senior 2A, 3A and 4A championships tip off a four-day run at the Langley Event Centre […]

Okanagan Mission Huskies' senior Kanani Coon, pictured in action at the 2022 Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag 2022 property of Langley Events Centre. All Rights Reserved)
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A Sunday Read: She’s the 1% of the 1%, but huge odds can’t stop Okanagan Mission’s NCAA Div. 1-bound Kanani Coon from fulfilling her promise both on the court, and within her First Nations community!

KELOWNA — Kanani Coon never thought about just how heavily the odds were stacked against her.They were, after all, based solely on numbers, and any basketball player worth their jumper knows that numbers never reveal entire truths.Still, these were the kinds of facts and figures so definitive in nature that they seemed to be telling […]

Burnaby's Central's Ankita Chopra (left) dishes the ball against Fleetwood Park's Amber Patrignani Dec. 14, 2022 in the opening round of the Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Burnaby Central’s three-point reign proves too much for Rapids, No. 3 Wildcats upset No. 1 Rapids behind 26 points from MVP Chopra in Fraser North Quad-A title tilt!

BURNABY — Call it the wow factor of the Wildcats from Burnaby Central.Grade 11 forward Ankita Chopra’s baseline trey 40 seconds into the proceedings signalled the first of the team’s 15 three-point buckets on the night as the No. 3-ranked ’Cats, wire-to-wire leaders, beat the No. 1 Riverside Rapids of Port Coquitlam 74-61 to capture […]