LANGLEY — This is a story about reaching that moment in life where everything and everyone you love the most has come together with such dreamlike precision that no matter how hard you train your focus, all the edges remain a blur.“I can’t explain it,” Jake Mouritzen says with elated exhaustion in a voice so […]
High School
A Sunday Read: How Burnaby South’s Sasha Vujisic made the final game of his high school career his best, leading Rebels past Kelowna for a B.C. Quad A crown
LANGLEY — Sasha Vujisic walked into his team’s halftime locker room Saturday night at the Langley Events Centre and had a little talk with himself.“The truth is, I was just playing bad,” said Vujisic, Burnaby South’s 6-foot-10 senior forward in self-critique of the opening half of the final game of his high school basketball career.Considering […]
B.C. Double-A championship final 2020: MVP Leighton follows in footsteps of McChesney to give Rupert’s Rainmakers a repeat B.C. championship
LANGLEY — The Rainmakers were the reigning champs who came to Langley this week to prove that while slightly re-tooled, they still had the stuff for a repeat.Despite losing the talents of 6-foot-9 2019 MVP Liam McChesney, Prince Rupert’s Charles Hays Rainmakers soldiered on and refined an identity built around both senior leader Kai Leighton […]
B.C. Single-A championship final 2020: Fifth time the charm for Unity Christian as Flames top Highroad Academy for school’s first B.C. title!
LANGLEY — Try, try, try, try and then try again. In the all-Chilliwack battle for the B.C. senior boys basketball championship title, the Unity Christian Flames were the team tasked with rolling the boulder up the hill.
FINAL EDITION – DOUBLE-A 2020: It’s No. 1, defending champion Charles Hays set to clash with No. 2 King George Dragons
LANGLEY — Welcome to our reports from Friday’s Final Four here at the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships and the Langley Events Centre.Please check back on this posting throughout the day as we bring you reports from both of today’s semifinals.By Gary Kingston (special to Varsity Letters) DOUBLE ATOP HALF DRAWNO. 1 CHARLES HAYS 69 […]
FINAL EDITION – QUAD-A 2020: No. 1 Burnaby South, No. 3 Kelowna set to make fourth clash of the season a battle for B.C. bragging rights!
LANGLEY — We’ve gone final here from Friday’s Final Four here at the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships and the Langley Events Centre.All stories by Howard TsumuraQUAD ATOP HALF DRAWNO. 1 BURNABY SOUTH 69 NO. 4 VANCOUVER COLLEGE 52LANGLEY — Jacob Holt was pretty much unstoppable, but the Burnaby South Rebels still mustered the […]
FINAL EDITION – SINGLE-A 2020: Hey Chilliwack, it’s on! No.1 Highroad vs. No. 3 Unity Christian prepare for another battle royale, this one for BC title!
LANGLEY — Welcome to our reports from Friday’s Final Four here at the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships and the Langley Events Centre.Please check back on this posting throughout the day as we bring you reports from both of today’s semifinals.By Gary Ahuja (special to Varsity Letters) SINGLE ATOP HALF DRAWNO. 1 HIGHROAD ACADEMY 79 […]
FINAL EDITION – TRIPLE-A 2020: No. 1 Duchess Park and No. 2 G.W. Graham match strength on strength in Saturday’s B.C. final!
LANGLEY — Welcome to our reports from Friday’s Final Four here at the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships and the Langley Events Centre.Please check back on this posting throughout the day as we bring you reports from both of today’s semifinals.All stories by Howard TsumuraTRIPLE ATOP HALF DRAWNO. 1 DUCHESS PARK 61 NO. 4 […]
FINAL EDITION – SINGLE-A BOYS DAY 2: Elite 8 draw sends its top seeds to semifinals! Highroad-Fernie, KCS-Unity make it a true Final Four!
LANGLEY — We have gone final here at Day 2 of the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Here’s your game reports!SINGLE-ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANo. 1 Highroad Academy 79 No. 9 Cedars Christian 66By Gary Ahuja (special to Varsity Letters) LANGLEY — A blast from the past has the Highroad Academy Knights one game away from the […]
FINAL EDITION – DOUBLE-A BOYS DAY 2: Charles Hays vs. Brentwood, King George vs. Lambrick in Friday’s Final Four!
LANGLEY — We’ve gone final here at Day 2 of the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Here’s your game reports!DOUBLE-ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANo. 1 Charles Hays 91 No. 9 St. Thomas Aquinas 79 By Gary Kingston (special to Varsity Letters) LANGLEY — Heart of a champion. It’s a cliche to be sure, but sometimes you just […]