LANGLEY — Prior to this season, the only high school basketball experience Jackson Tonsi could put on his resume was as an eighth grader playing with the junior varsity on his Single-A tier Vancouver Island high school team.Factor in the additional anonymity factor brought on by the cancelled 2020-21 pandemic season, and perhaps it’s no […]
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A Big Dance dandy! After 45 years away, a pride of Princess Margaret Lions follows the lead of its special head coach to a berth in B.C. boys Triple-A tournament!
SURREY — Records to verify the following have not been kept, yet as the B.C. senior boys basketball championships prepare to bed down for a final sleep before its 2021-22 re-start finale tips off Wednesday morning at the Langley Events Centre, you only need to collect the facts to understand that something very special has […]
‘A Hoops Journey’ welcomes Ken Winslade: The caretaker and keeper of the flame for B.C. boys high school hoops joins the podcast crew on eve of tourney tip-off!
LANGLEY — The journey that the B.C. boys high school basketball championships have taken to become the annual showcase it is these days under the bright lights at the Langley Events Centre is one filled with some of the most moments in provincial sports history.Yet the chief reason the game has been able to retain […]
March Madness is here! Your one-stop home for all four B.C. senior boys basketball championship draw is here!
LANGLEY — The final four days of the B.C. high school basketball season are upon us, and the action tips off Wednesday as all four tiers of the provincial boys championships invade the Langley Events Centre.From now until then, make this your quickest reference point for all four draws, as per their release on Sunday.QUADRUPLE […]
A SUNDAY READ: It was the game of their lives! Here’s why Terry Fox’s win over Riverside for the B.C. girls Quad-A hoops title will become a generational classic!
LANGLEY — At times, Saturday night seemed like the first time they’d all met.Sure, the two teams knew all the faces standing on the other side from a childhood spent growing up together in the same neighbourhoods, but wow, don’t things just somehow look a little different tonight under all of these bright lights?And look […]
Two years after 2020’s heartbreaking B.C. title-game loss, trust in each other carries Langley Christian Lightning past Mulgrave Titans to a redemptive 2022 B.C. Double-A title!
LANGLEY — The past two years have left all of us with plenty of moments for deep contemplation, and for Langley Christian senior girls basketball coach Danielle Gardner, it’s meant among other things, time spent re-affirming the trust she’s always had in her own process as a coach of young women.If you think that is […]
B.C. Girls Triple A final 2022: History made as R.A. McMath’s Wildcats claw way to Richmond school’s first-ever provincial title in any sport after win over MEI Eagles!
By GARY KINGSTON (Special for VarsityLetters.ca)LANGLEY – It was throwback basketball at the Langley Events Centre on Saturday. Maybe not quite to the game’s origins – inventor James Naismith and his peach baskets.But when R.A. McMath of Richmond ground out a 51-46 win over the MEI Eagles of Abbotsford in the final of the Triple […]
Toor de force! Seaquam wins B.C. girls JV title as head coach Lucky Toor leads North Delta school to its first-ever hoops crown!
LANGLEY — So young, but so talented.The new B.C. junior girls basketball champions from North Delta’s Seaquam Secondary don’t even start a 10th grader, and yet such was their poise and unflappability Saturday in the 2022 final that they won going away.Now, for the first time in the 44-year history of the school, the Seahawks […]
03.04.22 Day 3 reports from the 2022 B.C. senior girls QUAD-A Final Four basketball championships!
Welcome to Day 3 of the B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We now have reports from both of Friday’s semifinals.TERRY FOX 83 OKANAGAN MISSION 76LANGLEY — One of the greatest single-game scoring performances in the history of the B.C. high school girls basketball championships put an exclamation mark on the sentiment that, just in the […]
03.04.22 Day 3 reports from the 2022 B.C. senior girls TRIPLE-A Final Four basketball championships!
Welcome to Day 3 of the B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We invite you to keep checking back on this posting throughout Friday for updates from the championship side of the draw.MEI 53 BROOKSWOOD 52Story by GARY KINGSTON (special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – A handwritten sign in the Brookswood Bobcats student cheering section read: Goodnite […]