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.. […]
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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 […]
South Fraser Triple-A final: A year older, a year wiser, Surrey’s Clayton Heights Riders take zone championship spoils into a B.C. tourney return engagement after win over rival R.A. McMath!
SURREY — Last season’s trip to the B.C. senior girls basketball championship tournament was an ice-breaker moment for Surrey’s Clayton Heights Riders.A group which has played together since sixth grade had arrived as a largely Grade 11 team on the big stage of the provincial Triple-A championships last March at the Langley Events Centre.And falling […]
Fraser North Quad-A final: After Riverside tops Burnaby Central in zone title clash, here’s 5 Things You Need to Know about the Rapids, the Wildcats and the best current rivalry in B.C. girls high school basketball!
BURNABY — The countdown is now on to the tip-off of the 2024 B.C. senior girls basketball championships, and at the largest Quad-A tier, Sunday evening’s marquee Fraser North zone championship game clash which saw the Riverside Rapids defeat the Burnaby Central Wildcats 82-72 was a reminder of one simple fact.In year where there has […]