LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2026 B.C. senior girls Double-A basketball championship, coming to you from the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here reguarly as our team of writers provide first-hand game coverage from the eight sudden-elimination games being contested at this tier.Thanks for your loyalty!Howard TsumuraDOUBLE ANO. 2 CREDO CHRISTIAN […]
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BC Jr. Boys Final: Van College tops Burnaby South to capture crown, cap perfect 34-0 season as MVP Koen Li leads the way!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY TOWNSHIP — One of the greatest B.C. junior boys basketball champions of all-time?Even if the fantasy archive with all of the answers actually existed, the one where every score of every game of every season for the past 56 years had been recorded for posterity, so much of it would still […]
On the eve of tip-off 2026, STMC girls coach Cassie Lauang on appreciating both the teaching and learning moments in a most magical time!
(Editor’s preface — There is a no mistaking the special feeling that is in the air on the eve of the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships.St. Thomas More Knights senior girls basketball head coach Cassie Lauang reflected on some of those, and they are the kinds of moments that every coach leading a […]
Jr. Boys Final Four: On a night when team defence carries the day, No. 1 Irish reach new level in win over No. 4 Brookswood Bobcats!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY TOWNSHIP — When you play maybe the best basketball game out of your entire season on its biggest and brightest stage yet, and it happens to push your overall record to 33-0, hyperbole can sometimes be your own worst enemy.A head coach must always pick and choose his post-game words with […]
Jr. Boys Final Four: No. 2 Burnaby South’s defensive switch flips script on No. 3 Holy Cross, Rebels win 76-64 to earn place in Tuesday’s BC final!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.ca(Editor’s note — due to the ticking of the clock, older sportswriters must first get their proper sleep. Apologies, but the Vancouver College-Brookswood game report will hopefully materialize with the morning rooster! Hopefully not too much later. Here’s my Burnaby South-Holy Cross report. — Howard)LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Junior varsity basketball games may, at […]
BC Jr. Quarters: Holy Cross on its road to redemption from last season’s upset loss! No. 3 Crusaders top No. 6 Van Tech for first-ever Final Four berth!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersTOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY — Last season, as No. 6 seeds in the B.C. junior boys basketball championships, Surrey’s Holy Cross Crusaders had any thoughts of a deep run to tournament glory dashed on the first day of the competition.In hindsight, losing to No. 27-seeded Lambrick Park was a classic case of underestimating […]
BC Jr. Quarters: Late surge of local lightning bottled by Langley’s No. 4 Brookswood Bobcats who top No. 5 Heritage Woods to book Final Four passage!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersTOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY — Tyson Kenyon, Mason Nohr and the rest of the hometown Brookswood Bobcats spent virtually the entire game trying to rattle the equilibrium of their foes from Port Moody, the Heritage Woods Kodiaks.Yet it wasn’t until the final two minutes of play Sunday that the 6-foot-3 Grade 10 forward […]
BC Jr. Boys Quarters: Tough lessons learned from 2025 loss to Argyle spark Samson, Ellis and No. 2 seed Burnaby South past Brentwood and into the Final Four!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersTOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY — No one less than Michael Jordan once said “…talent wins games, but intelligence and teamwork win championships.”The Burnaby South Rebels, along with every other teams still in title contention here at the 2026 B.C. junior boys basketball championships, could surely use a Grade 10 version of MJ to […]
BC Jr. Boys Quarters: For Irish ‘vets’ Koen Li, Ren Hethrington, what a difference a year can make! No. 1 VC’s only returnees help Finnegan reach the Final Four!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity Letters(Varsity Letters will attempt to produce separate stories on all four quarterfinals at Sunday’s BC Junior Boys Basketball Championships. Check back throughout the evening. We’ll start here!)TOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY — Last season, Vancouver College junior boys basketball head coach Siamak Salehi was quite content to roll with a roster comprised exclusively of […]
Brookswood Bobcats' head coach Randy Nohr chats with his team during a fourth-quarter timeout in opening round action from Day 1 of the 2026 B.C. junior boys basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2026. All Rights Reserved)
Day 1 at the 2026 Junior Boys tourney: Why opening day in B.C. high school hoops keeps coaches up at night like this one. We explain!
(Updated at 10:50 p..m. with full Saturday scoreboard and Sunday’s quarterfinals schedule)(Updated at 3:10 p.m.)(A note from Howard Tsumura: Welcome to Day 1 at the 2026 B.C. junior boys basketball championships. We’ll update this story later tonight with the full package of scores from the opening two rounds of the 56th annual gathering.)LANGLEY — Welcome […]