No. 8 Unity Christian Flames 49 No.5 Credo Christian Kodiaks 37LANGLEY — The Unity Christian Flames are not about the glitz, glam, or fashion.The Flames play gritty, tough basketball and head coach Kyle Smiens fully embraces his team’s mentality.“We’ve been grinding out games all year,” he said following his No. 8-seeded team’s 49-37 upset win […]
High School Girls Basketball
TRIPLE-A B.C. girls Final Four 2024: Brookswood more than the Jordyn-aires! Bevy of Bobcats make long-distance splash as Brookswood tops Reynolds and heads to BC final!
No. 1 BROOKSWOOD 73 vs No. 5 REYNOLDS 51By Dan Kinvig (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — When a team has one lights-out perimeter shooter, it’s a nuisance for the opposition.If they have two? It’s a problem.Any more than that? It’s a five-alarm fire, nearly impossible to extinguish.Case in point? The Brookswood Bobcats’ team-wide flame-throwing exhibition […]
QUAD-A B.C. girls Final Four 2024: Avery and Jorja are kindred souls right to their soles! Story of Rapids’ pair unlaced as Riverside tops OKM for third-straight BC finals berth!
No. 1 RIVERSIDE 81 vs No. 4 OKANAGAN MISSION 65By Dan Kinvig (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — There’s little new ground to be broken in the digital pages of this website when it comes to Avery Sussex.Like, newsflash, did you know she’s very good at basketball and scores a lot of points?That’s not the direction […]
QUAD-A B.C. girls Final Four 2024: Seaquam Seahawks top Yale, stake claim as first North Delta senior girls team in BC senior final in over a generation!
No. 3 SEAQUAM 81 vs No. 7 YALE 40By Dan Kinvig (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — Digging through the B.C. 4A tournament record book to find the last time a North Delta senior girls basketball squad advanced to the title game in B.C.’s highest tier, you have to back . . . waaaaaaaaaaay back.Thirty-eight years, […]
SINGLE-A B.C. girls Final Four 2024: Tight pull of family helps Pacific Christian return to B.C. title game after tiering change!
No. 1 Pacific Christian 73 No. 5 Sir Alexander Mackenzie 62By Nicolas Hauka (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — A sense of family and belonging is essential to being successful in life.No. 1-seeded Pacific Christian Pacers coaches Jen and John Stewart say there’s also a correlation on the basketball court.It was a feeling that seemed almost […]
DOUBLE-A B.C. girls Final Four 2024: LCS Lighting bolt out of gates like Showtime Lakers, top Holy Cross behind Van der Hoven’s career-best 32 points!
By Howard TsumuraNo. 3 LANGLEY CHRISTIAN 74 No. 2 HOLY CROSS 40LANGLEY — Sometimes the most valuable win you can have prior to the playoffs is a close one that gets under your skin, gnaws at you unrelentingly and pushes you to a new level of desperation.That’s what happened to the Langley Christian Lightning last […]
DOUBLE-A B.C. girls Final Four 2024: Tiny St. Thomas More shows size of its fight, but No. 1, defending BC champs Mulgrave ride Eva Ruse’s 36 points to win!
No. 1 MULGRAVE 70 No. 5 ST. THOMAS MORE 44LANGLEY — You could scan the rosters of every senior girls basketball team in the province, and you might not be able to find two sides who contrasted each other more in overall size than the two who met Friday afternoon in the B.C. senior girls […]
02.29.24 Day 2 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior girls DOUBLE-A Final Four basketball championships!
Welcome to Day 2 of the 2024 B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We’ll do our best to give you game recaps of all four quarterfinals in this tier being played today.Please continue to check back throughout the day for updates.As well, go to VarsityLetters.ca to catch up on all of the other reports from the […]
02.29.24 Day 2 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior girls QUAD-A Final Four basketball championships!
Welcome to Day 2 of the 2024 B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We’ll do our best to give you game recaps of all four quarterfinals in this tier being played today.Please continue to check back throughout the day for updates.As well, go to VarsityLetters.ca to catch up on all of the other reports from the […]
02.29.24 Day 2 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior girls TRIPLE-A quarterfinals!
Welcome to Day 2 of the 2024 B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We’ll do our best to give you game recaps of all four quarterfinals in this tier being played today.Please continue to check back throughout the day for updates.As well, go to VarsityLetters.ca to catch up on all of the other reports from the […]