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 […]
High School Girls Basketball
BC Girls Basketball Rankings 01.31.22 edition: We’ve got all four tiers plus JV as Fleetwood Park jumps back into 4A Top 10 at No. 7, Burnaby Central debuts as the new No. 1 at 3A!
LANGLEY — For the first time since issuing its preseason rankings back in the late fall, B.C. Senior Girls Basketball has released new provincial Top 10s for all four of its tiers simultaneously.The first in-season set of B.C. junior girls rankings are also included today.PoCo’s Riverside Rapids have managed to retain their hold on No. […]
A Sunday Read: What defines the heart of Terry Fox’s UBC-bound point guard Cerys Merton? “She never turns down a battle!”
PORT COQUITLAM — Cerys Merton was born with a drive that needs no ignition.And these days, as we hit the stretch drive to the B.C. senior girls basketball championships, it’s a most fitting way to describe the energy and the presence that the Terry Fox Ravens’ senior point guard brings each time she sets foot […]
A GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT TAKES ROOT: Parent-launched petition opposing continued ban on BC High school sports tournaments gaining huge on-line traction!
VANCOUVER — A grassroots petition launched on-line Friday is distinguishing itself as something of a barometre for the level of frustration being felt by those opposed to Friday’s announcement by B.C.’s Ministry of Education that high school sports tournaments in this province would not be allowed to resume play on Feb. 1.Tricia Joseph, a parent […]
B.C. senior girls Top 10 Double-A basketball rankings 01.19.22: Mulgrave, Notre Dame jump up into Top 5 territory!
LANGLEY — West Vancouver’s Mulgrave Titans have made a move into the top four of the most recent B.C. senior girls Double-A basketball rankings released earlier this week.Langley Christian remains No. 1, while Vancouver’s Notre Dame Jugglers make the big jump up to No. 5 from No. 10.B.C.’s three other tiers did not conduct ranking […]
B.C. senior girls Quad-A basketball Top 10 rankings 01.04.21 edition: Pollsters install Riverside Rapids at No. 1 following TBI finals victory
LANGLEY — B.C. girls high school basketball released its latest Top 10 rankings on Tuesday for the Quad A tier, the first since Dec. 15.Riverside, following its win over Terry Fox in the Tsumura Basketball Invitational championship final on Dec. 18, moved into first place.All other tiers of B.C. girls senior varsity basketball, as well […]
B.C. Girls High school basketball rankings 12.20.21: Brookswood new AAA No. 1 while LCS, Credo maintain their AA and A strongholds!
LANGLEY — B.C.’s highest ranked teams at the Triple- and Double-A tiers took part in this past week’s Tsumura Basketball Invitational, and their performances are reflected within the first in-season Top 10 rankings released by the pollsters at B.C. girls high school basketball.Here are Top 10s for tiers Triple-, Double- and Single-A. We have also […]
A Sunday Read: A Rapids ascent comes on the heels of red sneakers… Indeed, there’s no place like home as Riverside tops Terry Fox at LEC for Tsumura Basketball 2021 girls title!
LANGLEY — Venica Davignon didn’t have to click the heels of her red basketball slippers together three times and repeat the phrase ‘There’s no place like home’ on Saturday night in order to transport both herself and her Riverside Rapids teammates to their version of hoops utopia.After all, they were already standing on centre court […]
Tsumura Basketball 2021: Langley Christian, South Delta round out our Top four… here’s how our finishes third through 12 were determined Saturday at the LEC!
LANGLEY — Here’s how teams placing third through 12th fared on their final day of competition Saturday at the 2021 girls Tsumura Basketball Invitational.3RD-4THLANGLEY CHRISTIAN 85 SOUTH DELTA 59LANGLEY — Lightning head coach Danielle Gardner was thrilled with her team’s bronze-medal ways.“I feel fantastic, I mean not having played for a couple of years, it […]
Hunker down for the Battle of PoCo… it’s No. 1 Terry Fox & No. 6 Riverside in a Saturday night LEC clash for Tsumura Basketball 2021 bragging rights!
LANGLEY — Get ready for the Battle of PoCo!On Saturday (8:30 p.m.), the Langley Events Centre will give B.C. girls high school basketball its last major showcase tournament until at least the start of February on when the Quad-A No. 1 Terry Fox Ravens take on the No. 6 Riverside Rapids.It’s a Port Coquitlam derby […]