We have gone final here on Day 1 of the B.C. senior boys 2022 high school basketball championships.The Quad-A draw is complete.All eight game reports are below, but first, here’s Thursday’s Arena Bowl schedule of championship-round games.TOP HALF DRAW7 p.m. — No. 1 St. George’s vs. No. 8 Walnut Grove8:45 p.m. — No. 4 Kelowna vs. […]
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03.09.22: Day 1 reports from the 2022 B.C. senior boys Triple-A basketball championships
We have gone final here on Day 1 of the B.C. senior boys 2022 high school basketball championships.The Triple-A draw is complete.All eight game reports are below, but first, here’s Thursday’s Centre Court schedule of championship-round games.TOP HALF DRAW7 p.m. — No. 1 St. Pat’s vs. No. 9 Princess Margaret8:45 p.m. — No. 4 R.A. MacNeill […]
03.09.22: Day 1 reports from the 2022 B.C. senior boys Double-A basketball championships
We have gone final here on Day 1 of the B.C. senior boys 2022 high school basketball championships.The Double-A draw is complete.All eight game reports are below, but first, here’s Thursday’s South Court schedule of championship-round games.TOP HALF DRAW7 p.m. — No. 1 King George vs. No. 9 West Point Grey Academy8:45 p.m. — No. 4 […]
B.C.’s ‘The Best Player You’ve Never Heard Of’: Nanaimo Christian’s Jackson Tonsi is a Grade 10 with an indefatigable work ethic and a 43-point scoring average!
LANGLEY — Prior to this season, the only high school basketball experience Jackson Tonsi could put on his resume was as an eighth grader playing with the junior varsity on his Single-A tier Vancouver Island high school team.Factor in the additional anonymity factor brought on by the cancelled 2020-21 pandemic season, and perhaps it’s no […]
A Big Dance dandy! After 45 years away, a pride of Princess Margaret Lions follows the lead of its special head coach to a berth in B.C. boys Triple-A tournament!
SURREY — Records to verify the following have not been kept, yet as the B.C. senior boys basketball championships prepare to bed down for a final sleep before its 2021-22 re-start finale tips off Wednesday morning at the Langley Events Centre, you only need to collect the facts to understand that something very special has […]
‘A Hoops Journey’ welcomes Ken Winslade: The caretaker and keeper of the flame for B.C. boys high school hoops joins the podcast crew on eve of tourney tip-off!
LANGLEY — The journey that the B.C. boys high school basketball championships have taken to become the annual showcase it is these days under the bright lights at the Langley Events Centre is one filled with some of the most moments in provincial sports history.Yet the chief reason the game has been able to retain […]
March Madness is here! Your one-stop home for all four B.C. senior boys basketball championship draw is here!
LANGLEY — The final four days of the B.C. high school basketball season are upon us, and the action tips off Wednesday as all four tiers of the provincial boys championships invade the Langley Events Centre.From now until then, make this your quickest reference point for all four draws, as per their release on Sunday.QUADRUPLE […]
A SUNDAY READ: It was the game of their lives! Here’s why Terry Fox’s win over Riverside for the B.C. girls Quad-A hoops title will become a generational classic!
LANGLEY — At times, Saturday night seemed like the first time they’d all met.Sure, the two teams knew all the faces standing on the other side from a childhood spent growing up together in the same neighbourhoods, but wow, don’t things just somehow look a little different tonight under all of these bright lights?And look […]
Two years after 2020’s heartbreaking B.C. title-game loss, trust in each other carries Langley Christian Lightning past Mulgrave Titans to a redemptive 2022 B.C. Double-A title!
LANGLEY — The past two years have left all of us with plenty of moments for deep contemplation, and for Langley Christian senior girls basketball coach Danielle Gardner, it’s meant among other things, time spent re-affirming the trust she’s always had in her own process as a coach of young women.If you think that is […]
B.C. Girls Triple A final 2022: History made as R.A. McMath’s Wildcats claw way to Richmond school’s first-ever provincial title in any sport after win over MEI Eagles!
By GARY KINGSTON (Special for VarsityLetters.ca)LANGLEY – It was throwback basketball at the Langley Events Centre on Saturday. Maybe not quite to the game’s origins – inventor James Naismith and his peach baskets.But when R.A. McMath of Richmond ground out a 51-46 win over the MEI Eagles of Abbotsford in the final of the Triple […]