Hey Varsity Letters’ readers, here’s a note from all of the dedicated people working behind the scenes at the Langley Events Centre who are determined to make March Madness as special as it deserves to be following last season’s cancelled 2020-21 provincial basketball championship tournaments:LANGLEY — With the Junior Basketball Provincial Invitational Tournaments and the […]
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Mason Bourcier: With three triple-doubles over his past six games, Trinity Western’s well-travelled guard puts down his hoops roots at Langley Events Centre!
LANGLEY — Ask Mason Bourcier about the good times he is starting to have again on the basketball court, and he seems to first take a backwards glance into his own figurative rearview mirror before speaking.“I used to be that kid, who if you showed him a brick wall, he’d run right through it,” Trinity […]
Kelowna’s No. 9 Quad-A Owls make southern migration! With trio of Top 10 foes scheduled, coach Parmar says ‘Our goal is still to make it to March 12!’
Few high school teams can rival the Kelowna Owls senior boys basketball in terms of kilometres travelled over the course of a season.Yet with the pandemic and the flooding playing havoc on its primary method of preparing for the annual grind that is the B.C. senior boys Quad-A basketball championships next month, the stalwart KSS […]
B.C. boys high school basketball rankings 02.08.22 edition: With playoff fever in the air, there’s new No. 1’s at Triple- and Single-A!
LANGLEY — It’s that special time of the basketball season as league play wraps up and playoffs begin to take centre stage.With that said, here are the latest B.C. senior boys high school basketball rankings over a week in which a pair of new No. 1’s emerged.Surrey’s Elgin Park Orcas moved to the top of […]
B.C. junior boys Top 10 basketball rankings 02.08.22 edition: Surrey’s Elgin Park Orcas surge from unranked to No. 7 in most topsy-turvy poll of season!
LANGLEY — The B.C. boys junior basketball championships are set to tip off Feb. 26 at the LEC, and as we hit the stretch drive there is nothing much to report except the most topsy-turvy stretch of the entire campaign thus far.Only two of the Top 10 spots remained static, headed by No. 1 Vancouver […]
A Sunday Read: Why Byrne Creek’s Marcell Sherwood helps us all better cherish our bounce-back season of B.C. high school basketball!
BURNABY — Throughout the COVID-cancelled 2020-21 season, we wondered openly and talked aloud of just what was being lost by the thousands upon thousands of student-athletes across this province who were denied the myriad of benefits which come from taking part in school-based sports.Well, the answer has come this season in all of the ways […]
Seaquam revels in a girls basketball renaissance! The Seahawks of Sunshine Hills bring long-lost, late-1980’s vibe back to their North Delta neighbourhood!
NORTH DELTA — When it comes to senior varsity girls basketball, the high school from that North Delta neighbourhood known as Sunshine Hills is finding out how good it feels to find its place in the sun.When rankings were released earlier this week, not only was the Seaquam Seahawks senior girls team ranked at No. […]
The ‘Strikes Thrice’ magic of the Langley Christian Lightning! In a tier-free girls high school basketball world, might Double-A powers be BC’s No. 1 overall team?
LANGLEY — Imagine a B.C. girls high school basketball world without any tiers of classification.Instead, replace it with a soup pot of sorts in which every team in the province is thrown together to form a chowder-like broth.Bring to a boil.Cover.Simmer.Let the cream rise to the top.And when you lift that cover, who might you […]
Riverside stocks its mint from the free-throw line! Quad-A No. 1 Rapids make their trips count in win over crosstown No. 3 Terry Fox Ravens!
LANGLEY — The Riverside Rapids may have forgotten to bring their vaunted three-point shooting game to Tuesday’s second round in the Battle of PoCo.Yet in the end, the Quad-A No. 1 Rapids simply exchanged an icy time from distance for a white-hot one from the charity stripe en route to a decisive 88-60 win over […]
“It’s been an Everest of a task!” After 1,003 days of waiting, gritty UFV Cascades’ volleyball teams make their Canada West home debuts Friday!
ABBOTSFORD — More times than not, it’s felt like an impossible journey for the women’s and men’s volleyball players who populate the expansion rosters of the Fraser Valley Cascades.And we’re not espousing about anything here as grandiose as either program capturing a national title in their debut seasons in U SPORTS.No.All we’re talking about is […]