LANGLEY — Natalie Rathler has discovered that in order to stand at your true height, you first need to raise the height of your confidence. And with that said and done, it’s why the senior forward with Langley’s Walnut Grove Gators has been a player impossible to miss, especially if you’re one of those who loves […]
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Diego en fuego! Oak Bay guard Maffia drops 27, helps carry Victoria’s Bays to TBI 2017 title win over Holy Cross
LANGLEY — Put the proverbial carrot in front of him and Diego Maffia will take care of the rest.
From B.C. Final Four last March to Tsumura Basketball’s title-tilt on Saturday, all hail Holy Cross vs. Oak Bay at the LEC!
LANGLEY — When last we left Surrey’s Holy Cross Crusaders and the Oak Bay Bays of Victoria, we were right here at the Langley Events Centre. It was mid-March and the Crusaders were topping the Bays for third-place at the Telus B.C. AAAA championship tournament.
TBI 2017: Nothing going as planned, but wrenches thrown bring character to Final Four Friday matchups at LEC
LANGLEY — B.C.’s latest No. 1-ranked AAAA team won’t be there, but the only non-ranked, non-honourable mention team in the 16-team field here at the 2017 Tsumura Basketball Invitational will.
TBI 2017 players, coaches carry heavy hearts on Friday following passing of beloved Raphael Alcoreza
LANGLEY — You couldn’t take more than a few steps around the Langley Events Centre Friday morning at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational without feeling an outpouring of compassion and grief from B.C.’s tight-knit high school basketball community following the tragic loss of Raphael Alcoreza.Sadly, the Panorama Ridge Grade 12 player, who was rushed to hospital after […]
Day 1 at the 2017 Boys TBI: Quad A powers survive Sweet 16 to set up Top 10-filled quarterfinals
What a terrific round of games to open TBI 2017 at the Langley Events Centre. Here’s reports from all of today’s eight games as well as a full schedule of tomorrow’s games:
12.06.17 B.C. senior girls AAA basketball rankings: Walnut Grove replaces Abby as the new No. 1
The latest B.C. girls AAA senior varsity basketball rankings:
TBI 2017: How Tupper has hit the upper-echelon, Tigers’ hoops in tip-top shape from top to bottom
VANCOUVER — Material trappings have never been a part of the blue-collar basketball culture at East Vancouver’s Sir Charles Tupper Secondary.
12.06.17: B.C. High School Boys Basketball Big 10 Rankings
Here’s are the B.C. boys high school basketball rankings for this week:
TBI 2017: Future bright but history also key for North Delta’s tradition-honouring basketball Huskies
NORTH DELTA — It’s easy to have a soft spot for a classic era of B.C. boys high school basketball, that span during the early-to-mid 1970s when the growth in the popularity of the game was out of control, and the single-tiered championship final was a mass spectacle played in venues as large as the […]