LANGLEY — One of them took the step of hiring a personal trainer to keep on getting better.The other finally decided to listen to his mom and make healthier eating choices.Taken as a whole, Jimmy Zaborniak and Karan Aujla have left no stone unturned in their quest to lead the Burnaby South Rebels back to […]
Author: Howard Tsumura
TBI Boys Finals 2021: Burnaby South extinguish King George Dragons’ fire with a suffocating defence borne in the heat of Rebels’ own practice gym!
LANGLEY — Come Monday, he will get back to demanding the very best from his players under the crucible of what is a Burnaby South senior boys basketball practice.But on Saturday night, under the bright lights at centre court of the Langley Sports Centre, Rebels’ head coach Mike Bell couldn’t help but call his players […]
Tsumura Basketball 2021: Surrey’s surprising Fleetwood Park Dragons take third, while Churchill, Abby, MacNeill, Claremont and STM complete the rest of our boys Great 8!
LANGLEY — Here’s a look at the three games which determined third to eighth at this season’s Tsumura Basketball Invitational which wrapped up Saturday at the Langley Events Centre.THIRD-FOURTHFLEETWOOD PARK 78 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 66LANGLEY — Surrey’s unranked Fleetwood Park Dragons, nursing a 54-53 lead after three quarters against Vancouver’s No. 5-ranked Sir Winston Churchill […]
Tsumura Basketball 2021: OK, how the heck do you beat No. 1 Burnaby South? “I think you have to be near-perfect” says Churchill coach Ly after Rebs crush ‘Dawgs for berth in TBI title tilt!
LANGLEY — OK, so what the secret?How in the heck do you beat the Burnaby South Rebels?Or is trying to get past B.C.’s No. 1-ranked AAAA boys basketball team simply an impossible task?“I think you have to be near perfect,” said Quyen Ly, the head coach at Vancouver’s Sir Winston Churchill Secondary after his Quad-A […]
It’s on to TBI 2021’s Saturday championship final for King George! In a Final Four ‘Battle of Dragons’ Coach Kulic’s Kardiac Kids rally to top Surrey’s Fleetwood Park!
LANGLEY — Darko Kulic talks so much about his King George Dragons as being the “little AA team” that always hard plays to the end regardless of the score,” that maybe you think it’s nothing more than hyperbole.Yet break down the score line from his team’s 66-59 win over Surrey’s Fleetwood Park Dragons, and you […]
Tsumura Basketball sets its Friday night Final Four in stone! Here’s how Burnaby South vs. Winston Churchill, and Fleetwood Park vs. King George punched their tickets!
LANGLEY — The Final Four is now set at the 2021 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.In the 6:45 p.m. game, Fleetwood Park of Surrey will face King George of Vancouver in the all-to-rare Clash of the Dragons.At 8:15 p.m., super-power Burnaby South faces Vancouver’s Sir Winston Churchill.The two winners will square off in Saturday’s 8:30 p.m. final.Here’s […]
Day 2 Tsumura Basketball 2021: Keep up to date with the latest game reports from the TBI boys Sweet 16 draw!
That’s a wrap on Day 2 of the 2021 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.We’ve got reports and photos from all eight games below, but first, here’s a look at Friday morning quarterfinals, all at Centre Court:TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A12:15 p.m. — Burnaby South vs. ClaremontQUADRANT B1:45 p.m. — Sir Winston Churchill vs. Abbotsford BOTTOM HALF DRAWQUADRANT C10:30 a.m. […]
DAY 1 FINAL: Tsumura Basketball 2021: Four Sweet 16 tickets punched! Byrne Creek tops GWG Grizz in OT thriller, Tammy outlasts Sands, plus STM and Fleetwood win early games!
Welcome to Day 1 of the 2021 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.This is our final edition with wrap-ups on all four games played tonight at the Langley Events Centre including Byrne Creek’s OT win over GW Graham. It’s all below. First, tomorrow’s draw.TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A6:15 p.m. — Burnaby South vs. Byrne Creek (centre court)8 p.m. — […]
B.C. Boys High School Basketball rankings 12.07.21: Changes galore as first five days of games play huge role in re-shaping Top 10 polls!
LANGLEY — As expected, after our cancelled 2020-21 season, the task of compiling preseason Top 10s for B.C. senior boys basketball proved to be a challenging feat at most tiers.Here’s where things stand after a five-day window of 2021-22 opening games across the province at all four tiers.SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Burnaby South Rebels (5-0) (FN) […]
TBI 2021.. the final draw! Owls forced to withdraw, St. Thomas More joins the party as 10th annual Tsumura Basketball Invitational tips off Wednesday at the LEC!
LANGLEY — The 10th annual Tsumura Basketball 20-team boys Invitational is set to tip off Wednesday, and it’s the start of four exciting days of hoops at the Langley Events Centre.We are once again publishing the tournament draw as a key cancellation has resulted in a couple of different match-ups over the first few days […]