Author: Howard Tsumura

Daunte Nelson of the Belmont Bulldogs is guarded by Kelowna Owls' Jonathon Haughton (centre) and Ajay Gill. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION: B.C. Boys Quad A Day 1 — We’ve got reports from all eight Sweet 16 games!

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LANGLEY — Welcome to our coverage of the B.C. senior boys Triple A basketball championships. We’ve wrapped our coverage for the day.

Duchess Park's Caleb Lyons (left) is guarded by Caledonia's Ty Giesbrecht during opening round action Wednesday at the LEC. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of UBC athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION: B.C. Boys Triple A Day 1 — We’ve got reports from all eight Sweet 16 games!

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LANGLEY — Welcome to our coverage of the B.C. senior boys Triple A basketball championships. We’ve wrapped our coverage for the day.

Sparwood's Tanner Barclay scored 83 points in a game this season, the second-highest single-game total in B.C. high school history. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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The Diego of the Kootenays is at the BC’s! On same day Maffia scored 94, Sparwood’s Barclay scored 83! Watch him this week at the LEC!

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LANGLEY — If you’re a high school basketball historian, you may remember this past February 9th as the day Oak Bay Bays’ senior guard Diego Maffia set a new B.C. single-game record by scoring 94 points in a 114-88 win over Edmonton’s Ross Sheppard Thunderbirds at Kelowna’s Western Canada Invitational.Yet that very same day, in […]

Steveston London Sharks head coach Mike Stoneburgh has not only done a terrific job getting his team back to the dance, he's got no shortage of entertaining stories to tell. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of UBC athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Tsumura’s ‘Twas the Night Before Tip-Off! Here’s 10 stories to tell on the night before the 2019 B.C. senior boys basketball championships

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One more sleep til the The Big Dance tips off. For me, it’s a day to reflect on the greatness of our game, to appreciate the efforts of our coaches and players at all four tiers, and to try offer a sampling of stories which I feel touch on why this time of year is so […]

Simon Fraser Clan head coach Steve Hanson calls Jasdeep Singh (centre) and Julian Roche (tight) the best front court duo in the GNAC.The pair leads SFU into the post season for the first time in nine seasons on Thursday. (Photo property of Simon Fraser Clan athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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SFU men’s hoops: After going 8-5 last 13 games versus 8-59 the previous 67, Clan set to end nine-year playoff drought on Thursday

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BURNABY — Want to know who might have had the biggest turnaround this season in all of NCAA men’s basketball, regardless of division?

Western Washington's Anna Schweke (44) has had a firm grip on Claudia Hart and the Simon Fraser Clan this season. The two teams meet in the oping round of GNAC playoffs Thursday in Bellingham. (Photo property of Western Washington University athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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GNAC playoffs ’19: SFU must take bad times with good, Clan face adversity head-on as they battle injuries, illness and WWU’s Vikings

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BURNABY — Over a grand and somewhat surprising stretch from early-January through mid-February, the Simon Fraser Clan women’s basketball team were among the most consistent in all of NCAA Div. 2 basketball, winning 11 of 13 games.

Jordan Bantog of Holy Cross guards Sir Charles Tupper's Gaurab Acharya. Both players will take to the court with their respective teams for the B.C. senior boys basketball championships which open Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Let March Madness begin! We’ve got all four draws here as B.C. 1A, 2A, 3A and 4A basketball championships begin Wednesday!

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LANGLEY — B.C. senior boys varsity basketball is set to step into the spotlight beginning Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre.Bookmark us as your one -stop place to view all four 16-team draws over the days leading up to the start of our four-day run March 6-9!

Maddy Gobeil (centre) and the South Kam Titans celebrate their second straight B.C. title on Saturday at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Painting a masterpiece: South Kam’s Titans plug the paint, slow Grizzlies forwards en route to Double A repeat title

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LANGLEY — Halftime.As the South Kamloops Titans showed Saturday, it can be enough time to change the course of a game and ultimately deliver a repeat provincial championship.Just don’t get too picky with head coach Del Komarniski about exactly what changes he made to turn his Titans into lock-down second-half defenders against Chilliwack’s G.W. Graham […]