PORT COQUITLAM — Marcus Flores will admit that nothing can ever fully replicate the feeling of stepping out in front of a screaming, sold-out crowd to play for a provincial championship title at the home of B.C. high school basketball, otherwise known as the Langley Events Centre.That’s just what the 6-foot-7 senior forward/centre and the […]
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The Rich Goulet Chancellor Memorial ’23: After two cancelled seasons, a grandaddy of B.C. hoop tourneys returns, its own fighter’s mentality not unlike its new namesake and foundational father!
BURNABY — They say that all great traditions, through the passing of time, seem to somehow take on the strongest characteristics of their creators.Early Wednesday afternoon, as he walked out of St. Thomas More Collegiate’s packed and deafening gymnasium having just coached the school’s first senior boys Chancellor tournament game in two years, Aaron Mitchell […]
01.04.23 edition: B.C. senior boys basketball Top 10 rankings for all four tiers
BURNABY — The first set of Top 10 rankings for B.C. senior boys high school basketball have arrived for 2023, and Surrey schools have surged in the largest Quad-A tier.Here’s the lastest from our B.C. pollsters at all four tiers for Jan 4, 2023:BASKETBALLTOP 10 RANKINGSB.C. SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Semiahmoo Thunderbirds (Surrey) (SF) (LW -1)2 […]
12.20.22 BC Girls Top 10 hoops ranks: Burnaby Central, Churchill, Pac Christian take big leaps forward while Abby Panthers move to top of 3A! Riverside, Mulgrave, Credo hold on to No. 1!
LANGLEY — Following this past week’s Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the LEC, here are the latest top 10 rankings courtesy of the B.C. Secondary Schools Basketball Association.QUAD-A1 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (LW-1)2 Walnut Grove Gators (Langley) (EV) (2)3 Okanagan Mission Huskies (Kelowna) (OK) (4) 4 Burnaby Central Wildcats (FN) (6)5 Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs (Vancouver) […]
A SUNDAY READ: How a scorer for the ages and the cast of B.C.’s No. 1 team produced a classic Tsumura Basketball final! Here’s to Riverside, Walnut Grove and the incomparable Kiera Pemberton!
No. 1 RIVERSIDE 73 No. 2 WALNUT GROVE 68By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — Saturday night’s championship final of the showcase Super 16 bracket here at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational produced not only a worthy champion, but yet another reminder that we are in the midst of what might be the most dominant individual streak of scoring […]
Tsumura Basketball 2022: It’s Kiera and Avery in TBI’s title tilt tonight after Pemberton & Gators top Mulgrave, and Sussex & Rapids top OKM’s Huskies!
LANGLEY — The two teams ranked at the very top of the B.C. senior girls Quad-A Top 10 poll have done their part to help create a dream championship final here at the 2022 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.And the best part of all?The No. 1-ranked Riverside Rapids of Port Coquitlam and the No. 2-ranked Walnut Grove […]
Tsumura Basketball 2022: Like Maddy Gobeil before her, South Kam’s Kiana Kaczur sets the bar high in TBI Rising 8 title win over Vernon!
SOUTH KAMLOOPS 52 VERNON 28By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — Kiana Kaczur was an impressionable sixth-grader back in the 2017-18 school year, and in March of that year she watched a South Kamloops Titans senior girls basketball team led by a special player named Maddy Gobeil win the B.C. senior girls Double-A title for er school.All these […]
Tsumura Basketball 2022: Tweedy’s MVP Sevene Grewal puts her heart on the three-point line, leads Panthers past Ramblers for Local 8 title!
LORD TWEEDSMUIR 69 MAPLE RIDGE 43By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — In the tradition of all great shooters, Sevene Grewal knew just how to shake off the doldrums of a slow day on the court.She trusted that shot of hers, and in the end, it rewarded both her and the rest of Surrey’s Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers with […]
TBI Super 16 quarters: As Walnut Grove tops Kelowna, it’s time to talk about the joy Gators’ superstar Kiera Pemberton brings to the game!
WALNUT GROVE 82 KELOWNA 48By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — Kiera Pemberton’s joy for the game can not be hidden.In fact you can tell simply by watching her in action just when the Walnut Grove Gators 6-foot senior guard is at her most joyous on the court.And so, it turns out, can she.On Thursday night, on an […]
TBI Super 16 quarters: Quad-A No. 1 Riverside prevails, but everyone finding out that Burnaby Central is for real!
RIVERSIDE 73 BURNABY CENTRAL 53By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — Don’t try tell Paul Langford that his Quad-A No. 1-ranked Riverside Rapids are advancing to the Tsumura Basketball Invitational Super 16 Final Four on the strength of a 20-point win over the Burnaby Central Wildcats.Sure, the Rapids beat the Burnaby Central Wildcats 73-53 in the quarters on […]