LANGLEY — When they met in a mid-afternoon game without any fans back on Feb. 4, we called the 60-58 overtime win by No. 1 St. Michaels University School Blue Jags of Victoria, over the host and No. 2-ranked Seaquam Seahawks of North Delta a potential preview of the 2022 B.C. junior girls championship final.So […]
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Why B.C. high school football’s latest numbers might just be the first barometre of the new normal in our provincial high school sports world!
VANCOUVER — Set against the unpredictable backdrop of a pandemic now just weeks shy of its second birthday in this province, no one can yet fully define what the so-called new normal in B.C. high school sports is going to look like.B.C. high school football, however, released numbers earlier this week which may well provide […]
Follow the B.C. Girls Basketball road map through March Madness: We’ve got the 2A, 3A and 4A tourney draw here!
LANGLEY — The Langley Events Centre will play host to the three largest tiers of B.C. girls high school basketball championships beginning March 2.Love to study the draws?Planning each of your four days at the LEC?Keep coming back for all three provincials draws in one place!QUAD ATRIPLE ADOUBLE AIf you’re reading this story or viewing […]
The energy of Sophie Klassen: ACL surgery left Simon Fraser forward wondering if she had “…lost what makes me, me,” yet her crash-and-bang DNA impossible to miss!
BURNABY — Ask Sophie Klassen what was worse than the COVID-cancelled 2020-21 university basketball season, and she doesn’t hesitate to answer.“I tore my ACL last season, in September (of 2020), just a couple of weeks into practices,” Simon Fraser’s energetic 6-foot redshirt junior forward begins. “I got surgery in November, and I wasn’t completely sure […]
Junior Boys Basketball 32-team draw released as B.C. high school basketball’s official championship season prepares itself for Saturday tip-off at the LEC!
LANGLEY — The B.C. high school boys and girls basketball championship season is March Madness defined and it begins Saturday as the B.C. junior boys event tips off at the home of the provincial game: The Langley Events Centre.That signals the start of 12 days of provincial tournaments over a 15-day span: Feb. 26-March 1 […]
Seaquam girls end three decades of Big Dance silence! Comeback win over Argyle in last-chance clash sends Seahawks, along with Yale Lions, into B.C. Quad-A championships!
PORT COQUITLAM — They hadn’t punched their tickets to the Big Dance in so long that even the school’s historians were having a hard time trying to figure out when the last time the senior girls basketball team from Seaquam Secondary last qualified for the B.C. championships.One thing was certain, however, as the fourth-quarter clock […]
B.C. boys high school basketball rankings 02.22.22 edition: No. 1’s all hold ground while AAA McMath and AA Windsor take biggest jumps ahead of zone championship week!
LANGLEY — The bookends of Quad- and Single-A remained calm, yet the waters were far from serene within B.C.’s two middle tiers as the senior boys basketball world turned towards, what will be for the most part, its final week of pre-B.C. tournament action.Richmond’s R.A. McMath Wildcats jumped from the honourable mention to No. 7 […]
The Power of Plaid: In lending a hand to All My Relations indigenous women’s team, Big Dance-bound West Van Highlanders tap a collective vein to their own gritty hearts!
WEST VANCOUVER — A return to the Big Dance for the first time in a quarter century is turning out to be the ultimate win-win for the senior girls basketball team from West Vancouver Secondary School.After all, what head coach doesn’t want their team dialled in with 100 per cent focus, ready to sacrifice for […]
Sir Winston’s Churchill’s Marah Dykstra: With D1 career at Montana State awaiting, star senior guard leads Bulldogs back to the Big Dance for first time in five seasons!
VANCOUVER — Ask Marah Dykstra about some of the very best things happening in her life these days, and without taking her eyes off the prize for even a second, she lets you know she’s determined to savour every last moment of her high school basketball career.Of course, following Thursday’s 62-29 victory over the West […]
Simon Fraser forward Gemma Cutler does it by the book, but the 6-foot-2 rookie from North Vancouver also writing her own chapters atop Burnaby Mountain!
BURNABY — When it comes to being a voracious student of the sport of basketball, you could say that Gemma Cutler wrote the book.Or perhaps, in the case of Simon Fraser’s ultra-inquisitive rookie forward, it’s more accurate to say she digested it in its entirety.That’s the idea you get when you ask SFU head coach […]