Brookswood's Emma Lenhoff (left) digs in on defence against Yale's Aysia Kumar in the B.C. junior girls semifinals at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Mark Steffens property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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JUNIOR: It’s Oak Bay and Brookswood on Saturday in the finals of the 2023 B.C. junior girls basketball championships!

BY GARY AHUJA (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — Two teams who won their last Junior Girls provincial championships a year apart are now set to play for the big prize on Saturday afternoon.The Junior Girls Basketball Provincial Invitational Tournament champion will be either the top seed Oak Bay Breakers (who last won in 2012) or […]

Yale's Samara Mason (left) does her best to stay hip to hip with Walnut Grove's Kiera Pemberton during Day 3 Final Four action at the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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QUAD-A FINAL FOUR, Game 1: Coach Rowell running out of words to describe Kiera Pemberton’s excellence! Gators star unstoppable again in win over talented Yale Lions!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Final Four Friday here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We will have live reports on today’s two semifinals.Check back through the course of the day as we post reports as quickly as we can based on writing, photographic and broadcast demands. Your patience is appreciated!No. 1 WALNUT GROVE […]

Abbotsford's Malia Lenz led her team past McMath and into Saturday's championship final during Day 3 Final Four action at the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TRIPLE A: Game reports from Day 3 of the 2023 B.C. Triple-A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Final Four Friday here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We will have live reports on today’s two semifinals.Check back through the course of the day as we post reports as quickly as we can based on writing, photographic and broadcast demands. Your patience is appreciated!STORIES BY GARY KINGSTON […]

Team toughness exemplified, Pacific Christian Pacers' senior Eden Kremer (left) attempts to get past Langley Christian's Shaylah Black during Day 3 Final Four action at the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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DOUBLE A: Game reports from Day 3 of the 2023 B.C. Double-A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Final Four Friday here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We will have live reports on today’s two semifinals.Check back through the course of the day as we post reports as quickly as we can based on writing, photographic and broadcast demands. Your patience is appreciated!No. 3 PACIFIC CHRISTIAN […]

MEI's Charlotte Dyck (left) tangles with Yale's Asia Kumar during Day 2 action at the B.C. junior girls high school basketball championships. (Photo by Gary Ahuja property of Langley Events Centre 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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JUNIOR: Game reports from Day 2 of the 2023 B.C. Junior girls basketball championships!

By GARY AHUJA (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — We have four teams left standing at the Junior Girls Basketball Provincial Invitational Tournament.The first semifinal will feature the top-seed Oak Bay Breakers and the No. 5 Argyle Pipers while the latter one is an all-Eastern Valley battle between the No. 10 M.E.I. Eagles and the No. […]

Pacific Christian's Abbi Ellison was a scoring threat from start to finish against Notre Dame during Day 2 action at the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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DOUBLE A: Game reports from Day 2 of the 2023 B.C. Double-A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 2 of the B.C. girls basketball championships from the Langley Events Centre.To our treasured readers, thank you so much for all of your support on Wednesday, leaning on us for coverage from the biggest game of the 2022-23 season.Please come back here throughout the day for live game stories and […]

Kelowna's Mav Chahal (left) tries to slow Riverside's Natalie Curley during Day 2 action at the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships. (Photo by Dan Kinvig 2023 by special permission. All Rights Reserved)
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QUAD A: Game reports from Day 2 of the 2023 B.C. Quad-A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 2 of the B.C. girls basketball championships from the Langley Events Centre.To our treasured readers, thank you so much for all of your support on Wednesday, leaning on us for coverage from the biggest game of the 2022-23 season.Please come back here throughout the day for live game stories and […]

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TRIPLE A: Game reports from Day 2 of the 2023 B.C. Triple-A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 2 of the B.C. girls basketball championships from the Langley Events Centre.To our treasured readers, thank you so much for all of your support on Wednesday, leaning on us for coverage from the biggest game of the 2022-23 season.Please come back here throughout the day for live game stories and […]

King George's Jose Zuluaga (left) is guarded by North Delta's Kristian Cabico during opening round Rising 8 bracket action at the 2022 Tsumura Basketball Invitational. Both schools started and finished the polling season within their respective provincial Top 10s. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2022 All Rights Reserved)
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Boys Top 10 Hoops rankings: How did the PRESEASON poll compare with the 03.01.23 FINAL poll at all four tiers!

LANGLEY — The final Top 10 polls of the season are out. How did they compare with the first poll of the season? Take a look.We’ve got the preseason poll from Nov. 22 included down below.The boys B.C. tournaments tip off March 8 at the LEC.BASKETBALLTOP 10 RANKINGSB.C. SENIOR BOYSFINALQUAD A1 Semiahmoo Thunderbirds (Surrey) (SF) (LW-1)2 […]

St. Thomas More's Tarrence Booker has been one of B.C.'s very best senior point guards this season, and on Sunday he was selected zone MVP as his team faced the Byrne Creek Bulldogs in Sunday's Fraser North AAA zone final at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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STM’s Tarrence Booker: A rarity in this day and age, Knights’ Fraser North AAA MVP says: “Social media doesn’t really equate to how good a player really is”

LANGLEY — It was the kind of moment that a kid named Booker (T. Book to his friends) has learned to read all too well over the course of his high school basketball career.On Sunday afternoon, as the Fraser North Triple-A senior boys basketball championship game wound its way to what everyone at the Langley […]