St. Thomas More's Kyla Limon feels the defensive pressure from Churchill Bulldogs' Crystal Charchuk (left) and Sasha Neuhaus during Day 2 action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Thursday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2023 Girls Day 2: Select 16 has gone final! Get ready for Final Four Friday with STM-Walnut Grove, and MEI-Holy Cross!

LANGLEY —We’ve got all four game reports posted right here.Enjoy, and remember the Final Four begins with two Select 16 games Friday afternoon at the LEC.TBI 2023GIRLSSELECT 16(All games played on Centre Court)TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A2A No. 5 ST. THOMAS MORE 57 4A-HM SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 51 LANGLEY — In basketball, getting into a zone can […]

Her body language perhaps expressing a free and clear path in the paint to the basket, Riverside's star senior guard Avery Sussex led her team against Victoria's SMUS Blue Jags during Day 2 action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Thursday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2023 Girls Day 2: Super 16 goes final! Now, it’s Friday Final 4 with Riverside-Bby Central, Seaquam-Brookswood! Superstar Nohr drops 44 ‘Cats in OT win!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 2 of the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.What a day, led by the Grade 9 superstar Jordyn Nohr and her 44 points in Brookswood’s OT win over Mulgrave, and Seaquam taking down Quad-A No. 1 Argyle! Can you stand it!Full game reports below:GIRLSSUPER 16CHAMPIONSHIP DRAW(All games played at South Court)TOP HALF […]

Walnut Grove's Joey Adams (right) and Lord Byng's Dylan King battled last week during TBI 2023 at the LEC. The Gators used TBI to move into a tie for Quad-A No. 10 this week. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Senior boys basketball Top 10s: TBI tourney shows its impact, St. Pat’s the new No. 1 at Triple-A!

The latest B.C. senior boys basketball rankings at all four tiers, released Dec. 13:BASKETBALLTOP 10 RANKINGSB.C. SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Oak Bay Bays (Victoria) (VI) (LW-1)2 Tamanawis Wildcats (Surrey) (SF) (2)3 West Vancouver Highlanders (VSS) (4)4 Spectrum Thunder (Saanich) (VI) (5)5 St. George’s Saints (Vancouver) (VSS) (6)6 Burnaby South Rebels (FN) (3) 7 Vancouver College Fighting Irish […]

As Lauren Van Dyk and her Abbotsford Christian teammates stand in on defence, Sir Winston Churchill's Louise Dykstra takes aim in the paint. during Day 1 action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI GIRLS SELECT 16 DRAW: We have gone final! All right reports now available!

LANGLEY — LANGLEY — Day 1 is over…. we have game reports from every contest played in this bracket today! Thank you for your loyalty and join us again tomorrow for more from Day 2 at TBI 2023!TBI 2023GIRLSSELECT 16(All games played on South Court)TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A4A-HM SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 66 2A No. 10 […]

Langley Christian's Grace Bradshaw (right)breaks free past Burnaby Central's Jayla Huynh for a lay-up during Day 1 action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI GIRLS SUPER 16 DRAW: We’ve gone final! Read all eight game reports here!

LANGLEY — Day 1 is over…. we have game reports from every contest played in this bracket today! Thank you for your loyalty and join us again tomorrow for more from Day 2 at TBI 2023!GIRLSSUPER 16(All games played at Centre Court)TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A4A No. 2 RIVERSIDE 92 4A No. 8 G.W. GRAHAM 38LANGLEY […]

Brookswood's Emma Lenhoff (left) brought tough defence to the fore as the Bobcats topped Ashlyn Mackie in the 2022 B.C. junior final Saturday at the LEC. Both teams are back in the LEC beginning Wednesday for TBI 2023 (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2023 GIRLS: Your four-day survival guide to Tsumura Basketball ’23 with info, brackets and a brand-new B.C. Top 10 for all four tiers!

LANGLEY — The absolue cream of the crop of B.C. senior girls basketball teams will call the Langley Events Centre home for the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational, this year set to tip-off its annual four-day run Wednesday.All 10 teams occupying the coveted slots in the most recent B.C. Secondary School Babsketball Association Top 10 poll […]

St. Pat's Celtics game MVP Jovin Sunner (centre) squares up for a shot with both Tobias Averill (left) and Rodney Westmoreland of Santa Margarita defending during championship game action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Saturday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong protected image 2023, All Rights Reserved)
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A SUNDAY READ, TBI-STYLE: What’s The Bump? St. Pat’s coach Nap Santos on why it was so important, win or lose, for his Celts to face powerhouse champ Santa Margarita!

TBI SUPER 16 CHAMPIONSHIP FINALSANTA MARGARITA 91 ST. PATRICK’S CELTICS 32LANGLEY — The coach wanted them to feel it, really feel it.He calls it ‘The Bump’ and it’s the bone-jarring part of basketball’s own school of hard knocks.On Saturday, with his team still a little dazed and confused by the emotions which accompanied a 91-32 […]

King George senior Darko Karac helped lead his team past Zeru Abera and the STM Knights en route to TBI Select 16 MVP honours during championship game action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Saturday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong protected image 2023, All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2023’s Championship Saturday: Heart of a champion still beating as B.C. 2A champ King George tops STM Knights for Select 16 title!

TBI 2023 SELECT 16 CHAMPIONSHIP FINALKING GEORGE 76 ST. THOMAS MORE 64LANGLEY — Darko Kulic admitted that he barely slept on Friday night.Curiosity got the better of the head coach of the varsity boys basketball team at Vancouver’s King George Secondary after his Dragons moved themselves into the Select 16 championship game against Burnaby’s St. […]

St. Patrick's Jovin Sunner measures himself for made bucket against the St. George's Saints during third-day semifinal action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Friday at the Langley Events Centre. during second-day quarterfinal action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Thursday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property of Langley Events Centre 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2023’s Final Four Friday: St. Pat’s attention to detail near clinical as final-minute heroics sink Saints, send Celtics to Super 16 title-game tilt tonight!

LANGLEY — We’re in the early days of another season of B.C. boys high school basketball, yet it’s never to early to hear coaches dissect performance via both passion and attention to detail.Through tired and hoarse post-game whispers Friday night, that’s how two of this province’s most enduring head coaches summed up a heated all-Vancouver […]

Santa Margarita guard Jonathan Moxie drives to the basket against Calgary's St. Mary's during third-day semifinal action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Friday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property of Langley Events Centre 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2023’s Final Four Friday: In the midst of three straight showings of dominance, Santa Margarita’s Jonathan Moxie on the biggest difference between SoCal and B.C. high school hoops!

LANGLEY — Many of those who would qualify as longtime high school basketball people in the province of B.C. were calling Friday’s TBI semifinal tilt between SoCal’s Santa Margarita Catholic Eagles and the St. Mary’s Saints of Calgary the Super 16 bracket’s true championship final.If that was indeed the case, it only further magnified the […]