St. Thomas More's Tarrence Booker has been one of B.C.'s very best senior point guards this season, and on Sunday he was selected zone MVP as his team faced the Byrne Creek Bulldogs in Sunday's Fraser North AAA zone final at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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STM’s Tarrence Booker: A rarity in this day and age, Knights’ Fraser North AAA MVP says: “Social media doesn’t really equate to how good a player really is”

LANGLEY — It was the kind of moment that a kid named Booker (T. Book to his friends) has learned to read all too well over the course of his high school basketball career.On Sunday afternoon, as the Fraser North Triple-A senior boys basketball championship game wound its way to what everyone at the Langley […]

Holy Cross' Solene Jackson helped her team to a narrow win over SMUS in the second round of play on Day 1 at the B.C. junior girls basketball championships in Langley. (Photo by Gary Ahuja property of LEC 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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JUNIOR: Game reports from Day 1 of the 2023 B.C. JUNIOR girls basketball championships!

BY GARY AHUJA (Special for Varsity Letters)The 16 games are done and the 24 teams are now settled into their three 8-team brackets (Championship, Showcase and Rivalry) following 16 games on day one of the Junior Girls Basketball Provincial Invitational Tournament!TOP HALF DRAWNo. 1 OAK BAY 56 No. 17 FLEETWOOD PARK 32LANGLEY — Facing an […]

Walnut Grove's Kiera Pemberton drivers past the Mt. Baker Wild during Day 1 of the B.C. senior girls basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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QUAD A: Game reports from Day 1 of the 2023 B.C. Quad-A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here with regularity for updated reports from this tier of play.STORIES BY GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)QUAD-ATOP HALF DRAWNo. 1 WALNUT GROVE GATORS 97 No. 16 MOUNT BAKER WILD 28LANGLEY – […]

Mulgrave's Katelyn Takeuchi measures up a shot against Prince George's Has Ti Kelly Road Grizzlies during Day 1 of the B.C. senior girls basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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DOUBLE-A: Game reports from Day 1 of the 2023 B.C. Double A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here with regularity for updated reports from this tier of play.TOP HALF DRAW STORIES BY BRAD ZIEMER (Special for Varsity Letters)BOTTOM HALF DRAW STORIES BY DAN KINVIG (Special for Varsity Letters)No. 1 […]

UVic-bound Makena Anderson of the SMUS Blue Jags looks to shoot over Seaton's Mya Koleba during Day 1 of the B.C. senior girls basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TRIPLE-A: Game reports from Day 1 of the 2023 B.C. Triple A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here with regularity for updated reports from this tier of play.TRIPLE-ATOP HALF DRAWNo. 1 ST. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL 80 No. 16 W.L. SEATON 36LANGLEY — Makena Anderson is not a player searching […]

The man of the hour, Zeru Abera, shown here being guarded by Tamanawis' Sunny Dhami, scored a game-high 22 points including the winning bucket with 2.4 seconds remaining. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Zeru Abera finds his perfect arc as last-second jumper gives STM first B.C. Jr. boys crown in 35 years, Knights’ fans storm LEC’s South Court in celebration!

LANGLEY — On Tuesday night, the game clock at the Langley Event Centre’s South Court tried its best to tell Zeru Abera that it was time to panic.It flashed the fact that only 11 seconds remained in a classic B.C. junior boys championship game tied at 42-42 between Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Knights and the […]

Tamanwis Wildcats' star Tray Belanger was a force at both ends of the court as his Surrey-based team topped Port Moody's Heritage Woods Kodiaks at the B.C. junior boys basketball semifinals Monday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Garrett James property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Tray bien! Tamanawis’ budding superstar Tray Belanger takes ‘giant steps’ in leading ‘Cats past Kodiaks and into tonight’s B.C. Junior boys title tilt!

No. 1 TAMANAWIS 69 No. 12 HERITAGE WOODS 55LANGLEY — On Monday night, just past the midway mark of the second quarter, at a juncture of the biggest basketball game of both teams’ season, it took but a second for one player to remind us all that he was ready to take on all comers.Tray […]

Using his reach to gain control of the basketball against Brookswood's Jo Lozowchuk is St. Thomas More's Zeru Abera during B.C. junior boys semifinal played Monday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Garrett James property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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How STM’s tree of tradition makes 1988 seems like yesterday! B.C. Jr. Final 4 win over Brookswood sends Knights back to title game for first time in 35 years!

No. 11 ST. THOMAS MORE 66 No. 7 BROOKSWOOD 49LANGLEY — In the moments after victory, Corbin Castres said it as simply as he could.“There’s no words to describe what it feels like to represent our school,” the St. Thomas More Knights’ head coach said Monday night after leading his team past Langley’s Brookswood Bobcats 66-49 […]

Terry Fox power forward Sukhraj Garcha finds himself closely guarded by the Heritage Woods' duo of Carter McCauley (left) and Kai Rawnsley during Fraser North Quad-A senior boys basketball championship game played Sunday at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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On the marvels of the 1-3-1 trapping zone: A late defensive shift sparks Terry Fox senior Sukhraj Garcha to next-level play and gives Ravens the Fraser North Quad-A title!

LANGLEY — Utter the numbers ‘1-3-1’ to the Terry Fox Ravens’  bearded, crash-and-bang senior power forward Sukhraj Garcha, along with the simple word ‘trap’ and the result seems to not only include an induced, trance-like state but also an energy burst that is easily greater than a swig of fresh-squeezed orange juice.On Sunday night, with 4:21 […]

Kelowna's Nash Semeniuk will lead his Owls into the BC 4A tourney tipping off March 8 at the LEC. All qualifying teams at tiers 1A-4A will see where their journey towards a provincial title begins on Sunday when the B.C. senior boys bracket reveal show takes place at TFSETV.ca (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Boys Basketball Sweet 16 bracket reveal show set to air Sunday on TFSETV! Plan those team gatherings as Chris & Howard usher in March Madness!

LANGLEY — The B.C. senior boys basketball championship draw show is set to live stream on TFSETV.ca on Sunday beginning at 3:30 p.m.As has become an annual March Madness tradition, host Chris Kennedy and Varsity Letters’ sportswriter Howard Tsumura will bring you the official unveilings of (in order) the Single-A, Double-A, Triple-A and Quad-A 16-team […]