By Nic Flint (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — On paper, this was supposed to be a walk in the park for the top-seeded St. Patrick’s Celtics of Vancouver as they took on the 22nd-seeded Pacific Academy Breakers of Surrey in the quarterfinal round Saturday as B.C. junior boys basketball championships hit the midway mark of […]
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B.C. Junior boys 2024 Elite 8: Oak Bay Bays punch Final Four ticket by showing their punch on offensive glass, top Collingwood as chase for title continues!
By Nic Flint (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — The quarter-final match-up between the eighth-seeded Collingwood Cavaliers and the top seeded Oak Bay Bays was a high-energy, physical game from the very beginning that the Bays would go on to win 55-43.Both teams’ defences started out very well, playing physical and not allowing easy, open shots […]
Fraser North Triple-A finals: Magic Moe and the Ramblers roll! Maple Ridge off to BC’s after gritty win over St. Thomas More Knights!
LANGLEY — The Maple Ridge Ramblers are starting to look like the Detroit Lions of B.C. high school basketball.From winless, 0-20 season in 2021-22 as Grade 9s to qualifying for the B.C. senior boys Triple-A tournament as the champions of the Fraser North?Yup.“We went from not winning a game with our crew in Grade 9.. […]
B.C. Junior Boys 2024 Elite 8: Game-turning treys from Tan-Ngo, Mayott propel VC Fighting Irish past Enter Creek and into Final Four!
No. 2 VANCOUVER COLLEGE 44 No. 7 ENVER CREEK 38LANGLEY — There was a critical juncture in Sunday’s quarterfinal clash here at the 2024 B.C. junior boys basketball champions where you could pause, scratch your head and think that just maybe you could see a slight crack in the armour of this current edition of […]
B.C. Junior boys 2024 Elite 8: Terry Fox Grade 9 trio digs deeps for professor Chambers, Ravens top LA Matheson for Final Four berth!
No. 7 TERRY FOX 56 No. 4 L.A. MATHESON 49LANGLEY — Rich Chambers has spent the majority of his Hall of Fame coaching career coming to the realization that in the end, it all comes up down to what his young student-athletes are able to get done on the court.Yet as one of our game’s […]
Pacific Academy Breakers head coach Joel Ashbee is in his element coaching up David Ude during Round 2 action Saturday as the Langley Events Centre opened its four-day run as host of the 2024 B.C. junior boys basketball championships. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2024. All Rights Reserved
Surrey’s Pacific Academy Breakers crashing the party at BC Jr. Boys tourney! Unique pre-game ritual has No. 22-seeds a win from Final 4!
A message from Howard:We’ve included this story as part of our Day 1 reports at VarsityLetters.ca, but it’s so unique we’re presenting it as a stand-alone story here!No. 22 Pacific Academy 64 No. 6 Abbotsford Christian 48LANGLEY — The No. 22 slot in the B.C. junior boys basketball championship draw is not some sweet spot […]
2024 B.C. Junior Boys championships Day 1: FINAL! All games reports from the Sweet 16 round as Sunday’s quarterfinals beckon!
LANGLEY — We’re down to the Sweet 16 here after Day 1 of the 2024 B.C. junior boys basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre.Here’s a look at Saturday’s second round of championship sudden elimination as the field has been trimmed from 64 to 16 heading in Sunday’s quarterfinals.Please keep checking back as we update […]
The 74th annual BC Girls Basketball Championships: Here’s your road map to all four tiers as Riverside, Brookswood, Mulgrave and Pacific Christian hunt provincial titles as No. 1 seeds!
LANGLEY — Defending B.C. champion Riverside of Port Coquitlam, fresh off its Fraser North championship victory over Burnaby South on Sunday, has been installed as the favourites to repeat at Quad-A as draw were released Wednesday for the 74th annual B.C. senior girls basketball championships, set to open a four-day run Feb. 28-March 2 at […]
B.C. Junior Boys 32-team championship bracket unveiled: Traditional powers at No. 1 Oak Bay, No. 2 Van College, No. 3 St. Pats joined by Surrey’s No. 4 L.A. Matheson Mustangs as action tips off Saturday at the LEC!
LANGLEY — If the pre-tournament seedings hold through to Monday’s Final Four, the 2024 B.C. junior boys basketball championship is going to reflect a whole lot of what’s also happening in the senior varsity world.Yet there’s also one newcomer to pre-tourney elite status as the massive-32 team draw for the four-day event set to tip […]
B.C. Boys Top 10 basketball rankings 02.21.24 edition: A bumper-crop season for Vancouver Sea-to-Sky Quads keeps the drama at high-alert levels in the run-up to March Madness!
LANGLEY — The Handsworth Royals 76-62 win over the West Vancouver Highlanders in last Thursday’s North Shore Quad-A final vaulted the North Vancouverites up the chart to No. 7 this week.Yet all of Vancouver Sea-to-Sky’s trap doors and tipping points continue to unfold in dramatic fashion as four the province’s Top 10 teams continue their […]