LANGLEY — B.C. high school basketball’s championship season is coming off what may well be its most comprehensively attended back-to-back-to-back provincial tournaments.And while the walls at the host Langley Events Centre seems to still be reverberating almost a full week after their completion, the long-whispered rumours about a key venue change for one of those […]
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The story of Grace and Avery: On a red-letter day for BC girls hoop, two high school seniors show, through their incredible selflessness, why our great game has never stopped doing what it does best!
LANGLEY — There is a good case to make for Saturday’s menu of four B.C. senior girls basketball provincial championship finals as the stuff which constitutes the greatest single day in the history of the girls high school game in this province.The Double-A, Triple-A and Quad-A games were all decided by six points, each characterized […]
BC Girls Quad-A final: In a zone of their own, Seaquam rallies with a perfect fourth quarter to stun defending champs & No. 1 seed Riverside, becoming Delta’s first-ever senior girls provincial hoop champs!
No. 3 SEAQUAM 79 No. 1 RIVERSIDE 73By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — It’s one thing to have a secret weapon you’re pretty sure can get you out of just about any sticky situation you might run into on the basketball court.It’s another thing entirely to have the patience which allows you to actually keep that secret, […]
As Bobcats edge SMUS Blue Jags in B.C. Triple-A overtime thriller, MVP Jordyn Nohr talks Ace Konig, showtime passes & helping to re-kindle past glory at Brookswood: “I think we have the group to do it”
No. 1 BROOKSWOOD 69 No. 2 ST. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL 63 (OT)LANGLEY — Jordyn Nohr knows her way around the historical section of the annual B.C. girls basketball championship program.And the Grade 9 guard with Langley’s top-seeded Brookswood Bobcats, who on Saturday added yet another MVP trophy to place up on the family mantle following […]
A Sunday Read: How this photo tells a thousand words about why our high school coaches coach! Here’s why I am writing about what Danie Gardner’s face says to me as her Langley Christian Lightning win B.C. girls Double-A title!
No. 3 LANGLEY CHRISTIAN 75 No. 1 MULGRAVE 69By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — Somehow, somewhere amidst the sea of Langley Christian players, parents and most of all fans, the latter of whom just a minute or two prior had stormed the court at the Langley Events Centre, Lightning coach Danielle Gardner found a tiny sliver of […]
Schuurman’s historic showing earns Unity Christian Flames first Single A title in five years in win over Pacific Christian’s Pacers!
By AARON MARTIN (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — If you’re put on the big stage, you’re expected to put on a big show.In the B.C. senior girls Single-A championship final Saturday at the Langley Events Centre, Miah Schuurman and Chilliwack’s Unity Christian Flames more than obliged, delivering a high-flying, 83-75 win over Victoria’s Pacific Christian […]
Why bronze is still golden! Hopf’s two clutch free throws allow OKM’s Huskies to have their Quad-A medal moment at the LEC!
BY AARON MARTIN (Special for Varsity Letters)(Note — Varsity Letters will do it’s best to post championship game stories form the 1A, 2A, 3A and 4A finals today from the LEC. Please check back later tonight for updates. For stories you don’t see out promise is to get them to you as quickly as possible […]
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, […]