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Avery Ratcliffe (right) of the York House Tigers puts up a defensive wall against Seycove's Jessica Whyte in B.C. Double A quarterfinal action Thursday at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION: Double-A girls Day 2 produces Langley Christian-York House, and STA-Britannia Final 4 match-ups

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LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2020 B.C. senior girls Quad-A championships.Please check back on this posting throughout the day as we continue to update the eight sudden-elimination games on tap.TOP HALF DRAWNO. 1 LANGLEY CHRISTIAN 101 NO. 9 NOTRE DAME 45LANGLEY — It’s the process that matters most to the Langley Christian […]

Argyle point guard Holly Brewer gave her team a push in its clash with South Kamloops in the 2020 3A quarterfinals Thursday at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION: Triple-A girls Day 2 — It’s Abby vs. Argyle, OKM vs. McMath as top four seeds bring drama to Friday’s Final Four

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LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2020 B.C. senior girls Triple-A championships.Please check back on this posting throughout the day as we continue to update the eight sudden-elimination games on tap.TOP HALF DRAWNO. 1 ABBOTSFORD 76 NO. 9 DUCHESS PARK 49LANGLEY — While spending the early moments of the fourth quarter flirting with […]

Sir Winston Churchill of Vancouver and Abbotsford's Yale Lions clashed Wednesday on the opening day of the BC junior girls championships at RE Mountain Secondary. (Photo property of Wilson Wong 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Junior Girls 2020: An opening day victory is just what No. 1 seeded Dr. Knox of Kelowna ordered

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By Gary Ahuja (special to Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — It would appear age is just a number these days, with teams no longer deferring to the upper classmen in the pecking order.Last year saw the Semiahmoo Totems (despite having its core made up almost entirely of Grade 10s) who captured the B.C. 3A (now the 4A) […]

Despite a reoccurrence of her cancer, Terry Fox's Karin Khuong took to the court with her Terry Fox teammates on Wednesday as the B.C. championships opened at the LEC. (Photo by Dan Kinvig property of University of the Fraser Valley athletics 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Terry Fox’s Karin Khuong calls seeing action with her Ravens’ teammates at BC’s vs. John Oliver: “A special moment to be on the court”

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NO. 2 TERRY FOX 69, NO. 15 JOHN OLIVER 37By Dan Kinvig (Special to Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — Sometimes, a simple game of basketball carries profound meaning that extends well beyond the final score.For the No. 15-seeded John Oliver Jokers, simply taking the court at the LEC on Wednesday was a matter of significance.The Vancouver program […]

Semiahmoo's Tara Wallack and the rest of the Totems were every bit in mid-dynasty form Wednesday as they opened play at the B.C. Quad-A championships. (Photo by Dan Kinvig property of University of the Fraser Valley athletics 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Quad-A girls Day 1: Your home for live game reports all day as the 2020 B.C. championships tip-off at the LEC

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LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2020 B.C. senior girls Quad-A championships.Please check back on this posting throughout the day as we continue to update the eight sudden-elimination games on tap.QUAD ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ABy Dan Kinvig (Special to Varsity Letters)NO. 1 SEMIAHMOO 126 NO. 16 PRINCE GEORGE 27LANGLEY — Semiahmoo Totems head […]

Langley Christian's Sydney Bradshaw (right) is contested by the defence of Creston's Prince Charles Comets during the opening minutes of their Round 1 B.C. Double A clash on Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Double-A girls Day 1: Your home for live game reports all day as the 2020 B.C. championships tip-off at the LEC

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LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2020 B.C. senior girls Double-A championships.Please check back on this posting throughout the day as we continue to update the eight sudden-elimination games on tap.DOUBLE ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANO. 1 LANGLEY CHRISTIAN 112 NO. 16 PRINCE CHARLES 22By Gary Kingston (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — The top […]

Abbotsford's Malia Lenz (right) and the rest of her No. 1 seeded Panthers were decisive opening-round winners over Ali Chong and the rest of Vancouver's Magee Lions in the opening round of the 2020 B.C. senior girls Triple A basketball championships Wednesday at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Triple-A girls Day 1: Your home for live game reports all day as the 2020 B.C. championships tip-off at the LEC

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LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2020 B.C. senior girls Triple-A championships.Please check back on this posting throughout the day as we continue to update the eight sudden-elimination games on tap.TRIPLE ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANO. 1 ABBOTSFORD 98 NO. 16 MAGEE 33LANGLEY — After his team spent 40 minutes in the fire Wednesday […]

The St. Thomas More Knights just wanted to make the B.C. tournament. On Sunday, they added the first-ever Sea-to-Sky zone title to their cache and didn't hold back their joy. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Ok, so where did these Knights come from? Internal belief in face of mounting losses helped St. Thomas More earn a most unexpected BC AAA berth!

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LANGLEY — If you had simply counted up the W’s and the L’s along the will-testing 3-10 stretch which Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Knights navigated over the first six weeks of 2020, you wouldn’t have believed your eyes this past Sunday afternoon at the Langley Events Centre.

Back in December at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational, Karter Fry and Victoria's SMUS Blue Jags gave DJ Laconsay (left), Matt Dunkerley and the rest of Vancouver's Tupper Tigers a solid push before faltering. This week, Vancouver Island MVP Fry and the Jags move into 3A No, 8, not far behind the No. 4-ranked Tigers. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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02.25.20 edition FINAL Varsity Letters B.C. boys high school basketball rankings: In the 11th hour, Oak Bay, STM and SMUS all crash the Top 10 party

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Welcome to the final B.C. senior boys basketball rankings of the season.Quad-A and Triple-A rankings will be joined by both Double-A and Single-A by Wednesday evening.BOYSQUAD A (records, rankings reflect games played Feb. 18-25. Records indicate games against B.C. competition only)1 Burnaby South Rebels (31-2) (LW-1)Last week — Won all three games to finish first […]

With the scoreboard perfectly framed to tell the story, St. Patrick's Irish Coquia sinks the biggest shot of his life Tuesday in the B.C. JV final at the LEC. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Picturs 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Irish eyes were crying, and for good reason! MVP Coquia’s clutch dagger trey lifts St. Pats past Churchill for first-ever B.C. JV hoops crown

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LANGLEY — Irish eyes were crying, but if you’d seen just what transpired over the final 20 seconds of play in Tuesday night’s B.C. junior boys basketball championships, you’d understand why.