LANGLEY — Do a quick web search with the words ‘bear’ and ‘B.C.’ and in a split second, you get information like ‘Most of B.C. is considered bear country.’Bears, of course, are so much a part of our provincial heritage that they have logically been absorbed into our lexicon of sports team nicknames.Last spring, Prince […]
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B.C. senior girls pre-season 2022-23 basketball Quad-A rankings: PoCo’s Riverside Rapids top our first look at province’s largest tier!
LANGLEY — The Riverside Rapids, coming off a loss to its Port Coquitlam crosstown rivals, the Terry Fox Ravens, in this month’s provincial Quad-A championship final, have been tabbed as the team to beat next season in B.C.’s largest tier next season.In an early-look pre-season Top 12 produced by the pollsters behind B.C. senior girls […]
A SUNDAY READ: How the simple words “…Irish, it’s your time” lifted St. Pat’s Celtics past Elgin Park and to a B.C. Triple-A title dedicated to a hurting teammate!
LANGLEY — In the biggest games of his young basketball life, Irish Coquia has averaged an amazing 30 points per game.Yet in any description of the seemingly-indescribable St. Patrick’s Celtics’ Grade 11 guard, it’s important to note that despite his gaudy point totals, he scores higher in the intangibles department than any other statistical category.On […]
A Sunday Read: A pivot’s night of perfection! As Karan Aujla defies odds to play a perfect game, Burnaby South joins B.C.’s ultra-elite after 4A title win over Semiahmoo!
LANGLEY — Scour the basketball world and we’re pretty sure you’ll be able to find the analytical formulas which attempt to best define excellence on the court.Yet if you happened to be among the 6,000-plus delirious fans who set a new single-event attendance record late Saturday night at the Langley Events Centre for the B.C. […]
B.C. 2A Final: Will Whundas ever cease? Kamloops’ hoops wonders from Westsyde top No. 1 Lambrick Park for school’s first-ever B.C. boys title!
LANGLEY — They’ve always been known for having one of the truly great nicknames in all of B.C. high school sports.Now, Kamloops’ Westsyde Whundas can be known for something else as well: B.C. senior boys basketball champions.Caleb Ezedebego drained the three-pointer of his life from the baseline corner with 26.5 seconds remaining to put the […]
B.C. Boys 1A Final: A team for the ages? Depth, desire and MVP Levi Van Egdom make Unity Christian’s Flames repeat champions!
LANGLEY — An esteemed caretaker of small-school B.C. boys basketball answered a curious reporter’s question on Saturday just moments before Chilliwack’s Unity Christian Flames took to the court at the Langley Events Centre.Just how does the 2021-22 edition of the Unity Christian Flames stack up against some of the best the province has seen at […]
Semiahmoo’s Cole Bekkering: On the back of Grade 10’s 37 points, ‘Birds top V.C.’s Irish en route to date with Burnaby South in Saturday’s BC Quad-A title game!
LANGLEY — It was one of the those games seemingly meant for a senior’s service.You know, those Grade 12 veterans who, on the road to the penultimate games of their high school careers, could somehow summon all the savvy and all the moxy that any head coach could ever ask for.Yet there are those rare […]
FINAL FOUR FRIDAY IS HERE! Day 3 reports from the 2022 B.C. senior boys DOUBLE-A basketball championships!
LANGLEY — What a day to dance on the hardwood of the Langley Events Centre.Thanks for coming back and joining us for the third day of the 2022 Tournament.Please keep checking back throughout the evening as myself and fellow writer Aaron Martin cover the day’s semifinal clashes.Games are being live-streamed if you can’t make it […]
Quad-A Final 4: Burnaby South holds off Walnut Grove for B.C. finals berth, two years later, Rebels’ Jimmy Z looks to forge a golden finish!
LANGLEY — Two years seems like such a long time ago for Jimmy Zaborniak.Yet there were times Friday night at the Langley Events Centre, as Burnaby South turned on their seemingly-patented late-game heroics, that it was only yesterday when both he and teammate Karan Aujla helped the Rebels top the Kelowna Owls to claim the […]
FINAL FOUR FRIDAY IS HERE! Day 3 reports from the 2022 B.C. senior boys SINGLE-A basketball championships!
LANGLEY — What a day to dance on the hardwood of the Langley Events Centre.Thanks for coming back and joining us for the third day of the 2022 Tournament.Please keep checking back throughout the evening as myself and fellow writer Aaron Martin cover the day’s semifinal clashes.Games are being live-streamed if you can’t make it […]