LANGLEY — Brentwood College proved it is among the most dominant B.C. boys Double A basketball program in provincial history, yet given the emotion Vancouver’s King George Dragons brought to Saturday’s B.C. championship final at the Langley Events Centre, it made you wonder if there was finally a moment in which the Vancouver Island team […]
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1A FINAL: MVP Loki does his damage, but Kelowna’s Heritage Saints prove too much for Smithers’ Bulkley Valley Royals
LANGLEY — One of the most dominant forces in the recent history of B.C. Single A basketball championships put on a show Saturday on the big floor at the Langley Events Centre.In the end, however, tournament MVP Saymon Noki’s 31 points and 21 rebounds wasn’t enough to carry Smithers’ Bulkley Valley Christian Royals past the […]
Say who? Saymon Loki, that’s who! Bulkley Valley big man leads Royals into B.C. 1A final vs. Heritage Christian
LANGLEY — Say who? Saymon, that’s who. Saymon Loki’s fable is growing by the game here at the 2018 B.C. senior boys Single A basketball championships.
Semiahmoo Totems: “Great teams have great teammates” are words Surrey team takes to heart as it plays in first B.C. final since 1961
LANGLEY — When you talk about the 2017-18 Semiahmoo Totems senior boys basketball team, it’s impossible to do so without referencing the importance they have placed on something best described as their intangible basketball culture.
Sasha to Jusuf: How a touch-pass from junior Vujisic to senior Sehic tells the story of Burnaby South’s amazing run to the AAAA final
LANGLEY — There was a moment down the stretch-drive of Friday night’s B.C. AAAA boys semifinal, when you stopped and realized that everything that the Burnaby South Rebels might have represented just a few weeks ago had been so clearly tossed out the window.
3A Final Four Friday: Byrne Creek’s junk defence stifles Huskies, No. 1 Bulldogs set to clash with No. 2 Titans for all the marbles
LANGLEY — Who would have thought that a sleepy-eyed 8:30 a.m. game played on the LEC’s South Court during the final day of the Tsumura Basketball Invitational back in early December would be a preview of the eventual B.C. senior boys Triple A championship final?
2A Final Four Friday: King George snaps Westsyde’s 33-0 record, earns B.C. title shot vs. powerhouse Brentwood
LANGLEY — Brentwood College’s drive towards a repeat title continued on cue Friday as the B.C. senior boys Double A basketball championships reached its Final Four.
TSUMURA: On 30 years of B.C. high school basketball ties, and why the 1988 Final Four remains my all-time favourite
LANGLEY — I am writing with pace in my hotel room this morning because I have a self-imposed deadline on my plate. It’s 9:32 a.m. and I start to tap keys, and I must be at the Langley Events Centre by the strike of noon to watch the Fighting Irish of Vancouver College tip-off against Victoria’s […]
Belmont, Burnaby South: How a pair of unlikely underdog dance partners punched their tickets to the AAAA Final Four
LANGLEY — Belmont Bulldogs head coach Kevin Brown was asked in the aftermath of a second day of bracket-busting havoc being wreaked by his team on the rest of the field here at the B.C. senior boys AAAA basketball championships if he foresaw any scenario where his team would still be in pursuit of the […]
It’s a battle of ‘Dawgs for a berth in AAA’s title tilt! Byrne Creek grinds its way past Tupper, face N.D. Huskies next
LANGLEY — Vancouver’s Sir Charles Tupper Tigers led Burnaby’s Byrne Creek Bulldogs for a grand total of one minute and one second on Thursday night.