Spectrum's Tyler Felt stood tall all weekend in leading No. 1 Spectrum to the title at the Legal Beagle Invitational which wrapped up play Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025 in Port Coquitlam. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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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's Jayson Ikani (right) has his path to the hoop challenged by Oak Bay's Jarrah Chadwick-Rupp (left) and Olin Lakos during Terry Fox Legal Beagle semifinals Jan. 11, 2025 in Port Coquitlam. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

SFU guard Irish Coquia handled being thrown in the defensive spotlight Thursday in Montana and helped lead his team to its first GNAC win of 2024-25. (Photo by special request for VarsityLetters.ca. All images remain property of Varsity Letters 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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SFU men’s basketball: Offence hard to guard, defence locks down MSU-B’s threes as Howard, Coquia and Red Leafs roll to big win against host Jackets in season’s first GNAC win!

(By HOWARD TSUMURA, varsityletters.ca)Luke Howard’s final basket of the night on Thursday did a lot to prove the notion that the Simon Fraser Red Leafs’ two-game home sweep last week at the hands of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference’s two Alaska schools didn’t come in vain.In fact when Howard set a high screen for teammate […]

A.R. MacNeill's Chad Gammad (right) looks to slow Nate Boon of the Mark Isfeld Ice during Day 1 action in the TBI Select 16 bracket Dec. 4, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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01.08.25: B.C. senior boys basketball rankings: Quad-A Tammy, Kelowna line up behind Vancouver Island’s Big Three!

LANGLEY — The Vancouver Island threesome remains atop Quad-A as the new year opens in B.C. boys high school basketball.They are joined by Surrey’s Tamanawis Wildcats and the Kelowna Owls within the top five of this week’s latest Top 10.Meanwhile, the top six teams at the Triple-, Double- and Single-A tiers all home court in […]

Simon Fraser forward Luke Howard has stood tall for the Red Leafs in his first season atop Burnaby Mountain. (Photo by special request for VarsityLetters.ca. All images remain property of Varsity Letters 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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A Red Leaf’s rising! For Abby’s Luke Howard, seven seasons on the U.S. hoops road leads to a breakthrough homecoming at Simon Fraser as GNAC home slate opens Thursday!

By Howard TsumuraBURNABY — Luke Howard’s climb to reach the summit of his college basketball career has been interminably long, at times undoubtedly lonely and beset with enough re-starts to wobble even the most unflappable of hardcourt warriors.Yet at 7 p.m. on Thursday — seven years, four schools, a global pandemic and a torn ACL […]

St. Patrick's Riley Santa Juana (right) battles with Semiahmoo's Jack Snead Nov. 30, 2024 at Heritage Woods' Kodiak Classic Invitational in Port Moody. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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12.22.24 edition: This week’s SRS B.C. senior boys basketball Top 50 rankings!

We’re back with Week 2 of featuring BCBBallMetrics.ca’s SRS Top 50 for B.C. boys basketball’s Quad-A through Single-A.Our thanks once again to Asher Mayan for providing this unique look! For a complete explanation, refer to last week’s debut rankings.And don’t forget that the official B.C. senior boys Top 10 rankings will appear right here at […]

Brooskwood Bobcats' Jordyn Noir drives to the paint against Seaquam's Sydney Roufosse during TBI Super 16 Championship Saturday action 12.14.24 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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12.18.24 B.C. girls basketball rankings: No. 1 Seaquam maintains top spot over No. 2 Brookswood after TBI Super 16 title-game win!

LANGLEY — The latest B.C. senior girls basketball rankings 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) (5)5 Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers (Surrey) (SF) (6)6 G.W. Graham Grizzlies (Chilliwack) (EV) (4)7 Okanagan Mission Huskies (Kelowna) (OK) (7)8 Kelowna […]

Jakerry Okot-Bitek and Burnaby's Byrne Creek Bulldogs kept their hold in the B.C. senior boys Triple A rankings. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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12.18.24: B.C. senior boys basketball rankings: Top fours hold the fort at all four tiers!

LANGLEY — Three weeks into the new season, and the province’s tier leaders looked to have settled into an early groove.That’s just another way of saying that last week’s top four in each classification remained the same, including the precise 1-2-3-4 order in Quad-, Triple- and Double-A.The lone change among that quartet?Vancouver’s SJS, swapped places […]

Jarrah Chadwick-Rupp of the Oak Bay Bays guards Dover Bay point guard Joe Linder during championship game action at the Kodiak Classic Invitational hosted 11.30.24 by Heritage Woods Secondary School in Port Moody. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Boys Basketball SRS ranking system formula Top 50 groups all four tiers for interesting new look

LANGLEY — The B.C. senior boys basketball rankings we run weekly here at VarsityLetters.ca has always been and will continue to be a staple of our coverage.From a personal standpoint, as a former provincial ranker myself for much of the last quarter century, it remains the traditional vehicle for giving basketball fans in our province […]

Prentice Lenz, who passed at the age of 53, is noted as the consummate family man, husband and educator by all who knew him. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letter 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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A Sunday Read: Remembering Prentice Lenz (1971-2024), a farmer for all seasons and a coach for the ages

By HOWARD TSUMURA, VarsityLetters.caABBOTSFORD — In the parlance of his profession, Prentice Lenz tilled every inch of a basketball court with the same level of discipline, ingenuity and faith he practiced every time he’d crouch to put his hands in the earth.Farmer. Family man. Father figure. He was all three of those in ways in which […]