Vancouver College's Cole Cruz-Dumont. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Boys Top 10 preseason basketball rankings: Burnaby South, St. Pat’s, Lambrick Park and Fernie tabbed as the teams to beat in 2021-22!

Ranking day has arrived for B.C. senior boys high school basketball.Although the start of the season has been delayed by a couple of days, we’re right on time with preseason Top 10’s from all four of the province’s tiers.As always, our thanks to everyone involved from pollsters to coaches, for making this day a special […]

B.C. boys and girls high school basketball, originally set to resume on Nov. 29, has now been moved to Dec. 1 by B.C. School Sports. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. boys and girls high school basketball has its tip-off delayed by at least two days following latest BCSS ruling!

LANGLEY — If you’ve got plans to be playing in, coaching, watching or officiating a B.C. high school basketball game over the first two days of the season, you may have to cool your sneakers for a couple of days.B.C. School Sports announced late Wednesday that the start of the winter season of play has […]

The South Delta Sun Devils, top-ranked in the B.C. senior girls Quad-A tier, will be one of somewhere in the neighbourhood of 100 boys and girls senior varsity teams which will now wait a week longer to see if their seven respective B.C. senior varsity championships can go off without a hitch. (Photo by Mark Booth property of the Delta Optimist 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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BCSS moves all seven B.C. high school senior varsity volleyball championships ahead to Dec. 8-11 window for best chance at true provincial tourney fields!

B.C.’s seven boys and girls B.C. senior varsity volleyball championships are still being afforded the chance to maintain their full integrity as province-wide championship tournaments.Yet, due to the massive after-effects of flooding and severely-compromised highway systems, B.C. School Sports announced Wednesday evening that the girls Quad-A, Triple-A, Double-A and Single-A championships, as well as the […]

The Sardis Falcons, on pins and needles awaiting clearance to travel on Highway 7 to the B.C. tourney's Burnaby site from Chilliwack, thank the soccer gods upon their arrival Wednesday afternoon. (Photo property of Falcons Athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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As Sardis Falcons’ team bus reaches Burnaby Lake, 16-team draw for 2021 B.C. senior boys AAA Coastal soccer championships becomes official: Full schedule is here!

Somewhere on Highway 7, on a roundabout from Chilliwack en route to Burnaby, the 16-team draw for the 2021 B.C. senior boys AAA Coastal high school soccer championships was finalized when a school bus carrying the Sardis Falcons was given the green light to its final destination at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex.(See full draw […]

Trinity Western Spartan head coach Ben Josephson guided his team in seven matches against national team competition, and seven more against NCAA Div. 1 foes, all as part of a huge load of competition coming out of the cancelled 2020 COVID season. On Friday and Saturday, the Spartans play host to UBC at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Mark Janzen property of Trinity Western athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Trinity Western men’s volleyball 2021-22: After cancelled season, battle-tested Spartans know that only their best will do against LEC-visiting rival UBC Thunderbirds!

LANGLEY — First, just days into the COVID lockdown back in March of 2020, they were denied the chance to defend their U SPORTS men’s national volleyball championship status.Then, of course, they were a part of a mass cancellation which wiped out their entire 2021 season.With all of that in mind, it pretty to easy […]

Brentwood College's Avik Bakshi (right) and Carihi's Kalem Lindstrom battle for possession during during Coastal AA championship match at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Tough road to title! Brentwood College goes to kicks in back-to-back games Tuesday, topping Carihi Tyees to win BC boys AA Coastal soccer title!

BURNABY — When a team goes to penalty kicks to win the two biggest games of its season in back-to-back fashion within a span of about four-and-half-hours, so much of it comes down to mind over matter.And perhaps no one brought more mental tenacity to the turf at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex for the […]

With only Mt. Douglas punter Giovanni Linuzzi to beat, G.W. Graham's Tyson Orregaard is captured on his way to game-winning 70-yard punt return TD on Monday in Langley. (Photo by Joanne Hewitt 2021 exclusive property of photographer. All Rights Reserved)
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Tyson Orregaard’s special teams thunder carries the day! His 70-yard punt return TD lifts GWG’s Grizzlies past Mt. Doug & into BC Place Subway Bowl AAA semifinals!

LANGLEY — On a team as deep at receiver as Chilliwack’s G.W. Graham Grizzlies have been this season, Grade 11 Tyson Orregaard has tried his best to stay patient, doing anything he could to help his team.And on Monday, as the Subway Bowl B.C. AAA Coastal championships reached the quarterfinal stage for the Grizzlies, Orregaard […]

Notre Dame's Ryan Torresan is slowed by a member of Victoria's Lambrick Park Lions during Monday's pivotal pool-play capper, a game the defending B.C. champion Jugglers claimed to earn a berth in Tuesday's semifinals at Burnaby Lakes. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2021 exclusive property of photographer. All Rights Reserved)
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Final Four set at BC boys AA Coastal soccer championships: It’s defending B.C. champ Notre Dame, Brentwood College, Carihi and Westview!

BURNABY — The defending champs have advanced all the way to the semifinals of the B.C. senior boys Coastal AA soccer championships.Yet after what basically amounts to a week shy of two years away, Day 1 of the 2021 tournament seemed to invite even more of the unknown.“Pool play is never easy, whether it’s 12 […]

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B.C. senior boys 2021 AAA and AA provincial volleyball championship tournament seedings released

Langley — We’ve got Triple-A and the Double-A seedings for the upcoming B.C. senior boys volleyball championships. A key with the full name of each zone name is included at the bottom of each draw:TRIPLE APOOL A1 Kelowna (TOK-1, host)2 Claremont (VI-1)3 Elgin Park (SF-1)4 McMath (SF-2)POOL B5 Steveston-London (SF-3)6 Argyle (VS2S-1)7 Penticton (TOK-2)8 Burnaby […]

Trinity Western senior defender Liz Hicks helped lift her Spartans to the U SPORTS national final but was unable to secure an elusive national title in her final university game Sunday in Sydney, NS. (Photo by Mark Janzen property of Trinity Western athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Spartans’ run to a sixth U SPORTS women’s soccer title scuttled as Trinity Western falls to MacEwan Griffins in national title game’s penalty-kick portion!

In its 17 prior contests this season, comprising Canada West league matches and playoffs, as well as U SPORTS national championship ones, the Trinity Western Spartans women’s soccer team’s 16-0-1 record showed both an aptitude and an ability to succeed at whatever kind of adversity had been placed in front of them, from injuries to […]