The South Delta Sun Devils and Robert Bateman Timberwolves, a pair of public schools, clash Saturday to determine the B.C. title at the province's second-highest tier of schoolboy rugby competition. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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All You Can Eat, Day 2: Rugby BC’s set the championship dance card! Bateman, S. Delta, Collingwood, Brentwood each a win away from title town

Day 2 is now in the books at the 2018 B.C. Secondary Schools Rugby Union B.C. championships. Tonight, we break down the re-match of an early season clash which few would have thought at the time was a preview to this Saturday’s B.C. Triple A Tier 1 championship.

Fleetwood Park Dragons' Grade 11 star Simran Billen (left) added a PK-session tally to help her team past South Delta and into Friday's B.C. AAA final at UBC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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Fleetwood’s back! FPSS Dragons survive B.C. semifinal against South Delta to earn amazing fifth straight trip to AAA finals

VANCOUVER — What if there was a scientific formula for proving just who, these days, is perhaps the most resilient team in all of B.C. high school sports? Plug in all of the data, and the answer which would most likely emerge?

After scoring her second goal of match as part of a 2-0 B.C. semifinal win over Reynolds, Centennial's Raegan Mackenzie (18) is congratulated by teammates (from light) Jadyn Vance, Rylee Mackenzie and Kiara Buono. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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Centaurs’ mojo equals magic! Centennial tops Reynolds to earn first B.C. girls AAA soccer title-tilt berth since turn of the century

VANCOUVER — In a way, you could say that the Centennial Centaurs spent the last 12 months preparing for a day just like Thursday.

Centennial's Nicoletta Sicoli (right) maintains possession as part of her team's 5-1 win over North Peace on Wednesday at Jericho Beach turf. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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The scoop on the groups! What happened Wednesday and how Thursday shapes up at the 2018 BC girls AAA soccer tourney

VANCOUVER — How do we know when its been a vintage opening day each year at the B.C.senior girls AAA soccer championships?

Chilliwack's G.W. Graham Grizzlies surrounded and outscored East Van's Tupper Tigers in B.C. AA Tier 1 action Wednesday in Abbotsford. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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All you can eat: A rugby feast on Day 1 of 2018 BC’s sees a near Mountain-ous upset and West Van’s heart-stopping win!

ABBOTSFORD — We’ve covered Quad-A semifinals in two earlier postings. Here’s our look at the rest of the senior varsity happenings from Day 1 of the 2018 B.C. high school rugby championships:

Shawnigan Lake prop Andre Janse van Rensburg (left, 1) can attest to the hard-hitting nature of Wednesday's B.C. Quad-A semifinal against Vancouver's St. George's Saints. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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Furious Saints comeback falls short, dynastic Stags rally late as Shawnigan Lake now preps for B.C. Quad-A final against Oak Bay

VANCOUVER — The Shawnigan Lake Stags almost let some mental lapses torpedo their bid for a fourth straight B.C. senior boys top-tiered high school rugby championship.

Oak Bay's Nick Carson was a force of nature near the try line on Wednesday. Here, he powers his way to a first-half try in the B.C. Quad A semifinals against North Van's Carson Graham Eagles. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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Barbarians show no nerves! Oak Bay’s encore to Shawnigan shocker is BC Quad-A semifinal win over Carson Graham

ABBOTSFORD — Last week, Victoria’s Oak Bay Barbarians turned the 2018 B.C. high school rugby season on its ear by defeating the previously unbeaten, three-time defending B.C. top-tier champion Shawnigan Lake Stags 20-15 in the Vancouver Island AAAA final.

Fleetwood Park's Karmin Dhindsa (right) goes airborne to win a ball from Kitsilano's Samantha Wing during opening round action from the 2018 B.C. senior girls AAA soccer championships at Vancouver's Jericho Beach turf. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsaityLertters.ca)
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Fleetwood Park tops Kits 3-0 in B.C. girls AAA opener, yet neither team has time to dwell on morning result

VANCOUVER — Dave Sabourin and Sunny Uppal are a pair of veteran coaches who know that nothing is won after the opening round of pool play at the B.C. senior girls AAA soccer championships.

Fraser Heights' Yashica Parmar (right) and the rest of the Firehawks topped Coquitlam's Dr. Charles Best earlier this month to claim a dramatic Fraser Valley junior girls soccer title. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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A school to watch in 2018-19? Girls soccer, basketball on a rapid rise at Surrey’s Fraser Heights Secondary

SURREY — As the calendar prepares to hit June, and the time comes to look back on another season in B.C. high school sports, it’s the broad prism view which can reveal so much of what to expect when we gather to do it all again come September.

Vernon's Hannah Bennison, this season a freshman at NCAA Div. 1 Providence College, was one of the hundreds of graduating B.C. high school student-athletes to populate our 2017 B.C. Recruits List. Now we're looking for this to fill up our 2018 list! (Photo courtesy Athletics Canada)
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B.C. Recruits List 2018: Help us compile our best list ever! This year’s 2000-born Grade 12’s were Grade 1’s when we first launched!

NORTH DELTA — The more I think about it, it might be the most rewarding part in the cycle of covering B.C.’s legion of student-athletes as they make the transition from that of high school athlete to university athlete.