LANGLEY — It’s never too soon to plan your pre-holiday basketball-viewing schedule.We certainly hope that includes the girls 2018 Tsumura Basketball Invitational, which runs Dec. 13-15 at the Langley Events Centre.Recently, we unveiled the 16-team field.Today, we’ve got the full bracket, including not only our opening-round games, but all 32 games and where they will […]
Author: Howard Tsumura
Ciccone to Simone: STM’s dynamic passing duo dominates Varsity Letters’ Top 10 Performances of the Week
LANGLEY — Ahh, the beauty of pure chemistry between quarterback and receiver. As the massive statistical department huddled here at Varsity Letters looking for our performance of the week past in B.C. high school football, that’s the theme that shone through.
10.24.18 edition: B.C. senior girls Top 10 volleyball rankings stirred by North Shore Invitational results
LANGLEY — No one has been able to knock the two-time defending B.C. AAAA champions from their perch, but Victoria’s Belmont Bulldogs got a new neighbour nudging at its fencing this past week.
Seaquam football: Tough losses the product of youth, but resilient Seahawks hope to flip script in 2019 à la VC’s Fighting Irish
NORTH DELTA — With all of the youth that resides on the current roster of the Seaquam Seahawks senior varsity football team, it’s not going to be a surprise, to borrow from the phraseology of the sweet science, to see the North Delta-based team step up in weight class next season.
UFV’s Amanda Thompson: Battle-scarred but unbowed, three knee surgeries in four years no match for Cascades’ gritty guard
ABBOTSFORD — Last April, in the moments after surgeons operated on her battle-scarred left knee for the third time in just under four years, Amanda Thompson cleared her head and braced herself for the news.
10.23.18 edition B.C. high school football Weekend Survival Guide: Big 5 rankings, Top 4 Games to Watch plus full schedule
LANGLEY — We’re down to two weeks and counting in the 2018 B.C. high school football conference regular season. Before we know it, it’ll be Subway Bowl season again.
Top 10 Tuesday 10.23.18 edition: All three tiers of B.C. boys volleyball Top 10s include big move by AAA Moscrop Panthers
LANGLEY — Stability returned to B.C.’s two largest tiers this past week as no new teams moved into the top five of the AAA and AA senior boys volleyball rankings.
UBC women’s basketball: On eve of 2018-19 season-opener, ‘Birds head coach Huband see a talented core set for “a coming of age”
VANCOUVER — The best way to describe just how close last season’s youthful UBC Thunderbirds’ women’s basketball team came to achieving a breakthrough campaign would be to imagine longtime head coach Deb Huband holding up a hand with her thumb and index finger about an inch apart.
10.20.18: Varsity Letters’ B.C. High School Football Report, Saturday Night Special
Welcome to the Saturday edition of Varsity Letters’ B.C High School Football Report.
Football Clan find rare air: In loss to Top 25 CWU, Simon Fraser QB Richardson flirts with GNAC passing mark, WR Rysen John has career day
The Simon Fraser Clan may not have posed an imminent threat to the host and No. 21 nationally-ranked Central Washington Wildcats on Saturday night in Ellensburg. Yet even as the visiting Clan (1-7, 0-6) was falling 60-19 to the reigning powerhouse of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, it was impossible not to appreciate the passing numbers […]