LANGLEY — The Fleetwood Park Dragons are taking a cue from the calendar.Unranked in the Quad-A tier last week, the Dragons finally came through with that so-called signature victory, stopping the then-No. 4-ranked Tamanawis Wildcats 72-65 in the final of the Surrey RCMP Classic on Saturday at the Langley Events Centre.The victory, on the backs […]
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01.20.25 edition: SRS boys Top 50 sees Oak Bay Bays take over No. 2! SMUS, King George, Handsworth, MEI make top rises while three other newcomers arrive!
LANGLEY — B.C. Basketball Metrics’ latest SRS Boys Top 50 would have No. 1 Spectrum vs. No. 4 Kelowna, and No. 2 Oak Bay vs. No. 3 Dover Bay if the Final Four was tipping off Jan. 20.(As I add a day after posting, thanks to loyal reader Jack Showers, that of course isn’t possible […]
A Sunday Read: The 48-hour story of how great shooters learn live with misses to celebrate game-winning makes! SFU’s Irish Coquia does just that with buzzer-beating game-winner over No. 17 St Martin’s!
BURNABY MOUNTAIN — Great shooters never turn down big shots, and in a nutshell, that’s all you need to know about the temperature of the stuff that flows through the veins of Irish Coquia.Two nights after rushing a potential game-winning shot which fell short with a half-second remaining in a 78-76 home floor loss to […]
UBC Thunderbirds men’s basketball lands a prize Class of 2025 recruit! Dover Bay’s 6-foot-7 Frank Linder, reigning BC Triple-A MVP, brings a universal skill set to War Memorial Gym!
VANCOUVER — Start with his agility, length and power.Then consider that it all comes within a 6-foot-7, 195-pound frame.Those who have seen forward/guard Frank Linder grow into his position as one of the top seniors in B.C. high school basketball over the past few seasons with Nanaimo’s Dover Bay Dolphins know all too well that […]
01.15.25: B.C. senior boys basketball rankings: Spectrum, St. Pat’s sitting on the pole! Could RCMP, Catholics, Snowball shake it up?
LANGLEY — Only one change atop the four tiers of B.C. boys high school basketball this week, as St. Patricks flip-flops with St. Thomas More at the peak of the Triple-A rankings following the final of the Rich Goutlet Chancellor final Saturday in Burnaby,.Spectrum staved off the same scenario atop 4A, topping No. 3 Oak […]
B.C. senior girls basketball rankings: First Top 10’s of 2025 show Yale, LFA, Lambrick Park and Mulgrave making the biggest climbs! Seaquam, MEI, SMUS maintain their No. 1 holds!
LANGLEY — The first B.C. senior girls basketball rankings of 2025 for 4A, 3A and 2A.QUAD-A1 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF) (LW-1)2 Brookswood Bobcats (Langley) (EV) (2)3 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (3)4 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS) (4)5 Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers (Surrey) (SF) (5)6 Yale Lions (Abbotsford) (EV) (10)7 Oak Bay Breakers (Victoria) (VI) (HM)8 […]
Chancellor 2025: Capacity crowds at St. Thomas More induce a 1980’s flashback for your author! We dissect champion St. Pat’s, runner-up Knights boffo No. 1 v. No. 2 title clash!
BURNABY — One thing I’ve noticed happening a lot more with age, are the number of times I get high school basketball flashbacks while attending games in the here-and-now of this 2024-25 season.So before we get to the guts of this story, which is centred around the incredible show that both the No. 1-ranked St. […]
01.13.25 edition: Whose star is rising fastest in BC SRS Top 50? Notre Dame, Grandview Hts, Mt. Boo!
LANGLEY — Response has been very positive since Varsity Letters began running the B.C. SRS Top 50 senior boys basketball rankings a number of weeks back.If there has been a general concensus from our readers, it has centred around two points.One, you have appreciated the fact that a vehicle now exists which puts all four […]
A Sunday Read: Guess why No. 1 Spectrum’s win over No. 3 Oak Bay in Terry Fox Legal Beagle final is the defending B.C. 4A champ Thunder’s biggest win of the season!
By HOWARD TSUMURA (VarsityLetters.ca)SPECTRUM 70 OAK BAY 62PORT COQUITLAM — Saturday night’s Legal Beagle championship final victory by the Spectrum Thunder is the Victoria team’s biggest win since it cut down the nets last March at the Langley Events Centre as the kings of B.C. Quad-A hoops.It may seem a heady statement, yet on the […]
Terry Fox Legal Beagle 2025: No. 1 Spectrum faces No. 3 Oak Bay as Victoria duo sweep Final 4 Friday!
PORT COQUITLAM — Victoria’s finest — the Quad-A No. 1 Spectrum Thunder and No. 3 Oak Bays Bays — will be an island unto themselves Saturday night when the championship game of the 2025 Jonathon Taylor Terry Fox Legal Beagle tips off at 7 p.m.The Vancouver Island rivals each played their best basketball in the […]