LANGLEY — OK, so what the secret?How in the heck do you beat the Burnaby South Rebels?Or is trying to get past B.C.’s No. 1-ranked AAAA boys basketball team simply an impossible task?“I think you have to be near perfect,” said Quyen Ly, the head coach at Vancouver’s Sir Winston Churchill Secondary after his Quad-A […]
High School Boys Basketball
It’s on to TBI 2021’s Saturday championship final for King George! In a Final Four ‘Battle of Dragons’ Coach Kulic’s Kardiac Kids rally to top Surrey’s Fleetwood Park!
LANGLEY — Darko Kulic talks so much about his King George Dragons as being the “little AA team” that always hard plays to the end regardless of the score,” that maybe you think it’s nothing more than hyperbole.Yet break down the score line from his team’s 66-59 win over Surrey’s Fleetwood Park Dragons, and you […]
Tsumura Basketball sets its Friday night Final Four in stone! Here’s how Burnaby South vs. Winston Churchill, and Fleetwood Park vs. King George punched their tickets!
LANGLEY — The Final Four is now set at the 2021 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.In the 6:45 p.m. game, Fleetwood Park of Surrey will face King George of Vancouver in the all-to-rare Clash of the Dragons.At 8:15 p.m., super-power Burnaby South faces Vancouver’s Sir Winston Churchill.The two winners will square off in Saturday’s 8:30 p.m. final.Here’s […]
Day 2 Tsumura Basketball 2021: Keep up to date with the latest game reports from the TBI boys Sweet 16 draw!
That’s a wrap on Day 2 of the 2021 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.We’ve got reports and photos from all eight games below, but first, here’s a look at Friday morning quarterfinals, all at Centre Court:TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A12:15 p.m. — Burnaby South vs. ClaremontQUADRANT B1:45 p.m. — Sir Winston Churchill vs. Abbotsford BOTTOM HALF DRAWQUADRANT C10:30 a.m. […]
DAY 1 FINAL: Tsumura Basketball 2021: Four Sweet 16 tickets punched! Byrne Creek tops GWG Grizz in OT thriller, Tammy outlasts Sands, plus STM and Fleetwood win early games!
Welcome to Day 1 of the 2021 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.This is our final edition with wrap-ups on all four games played tonight at the Langley Events Centre including Byrne Creek’s OT win over GW Graham. It’s all below. First, tomorrow’s draw.TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A6:15 p.m. — Burnaby South vs. Byrne Creek (centre court)8 p.m. — […]
B.C. Boys High School Basketball rankings 12.07.21: Changes galore as first five days of games play huge role in re-shaping Top 10 polls!
LANGLEY — As expected, after our cancelled 2020-21 season, the task of compiling preseason Top 10s for B.C. senior boys basketball proved to be a challenging feat at most tiers.Here’s where things stand after a five-day window of 2021-22 opening games across the province at all four tiers.SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Burnaby South Rebels (5-0) (FN) […]
TBI 2021.. the final draw! Owls forced to withdraw, St. Thomas More joins the party as 10th annual Tsumura Basketball Invitational tips off Wednesday at the LEC!
LANGLEY — The 10th annual Tsumura Basketball 20-team boys Invitational is set to tip off Wednesday, and it’s the start of four exciting days of hoops at the Langley Events Centre.We are once again publishing the tournament draw as a key cancellation has resulted in a couple of different match-ups over the first few days […]
Fraser Valley Bandits launching B.C. high school basketball Player of the Week for girls and boys
By GARY AHUJALANGLEY — Know any basketball players excelling both on and off the court? Then the Fraser Valley Bandits want to hear from you.With basketball season now underway, the Bandits are launching the BC Player of the Week to recognize student-athletes who are excelling as role models in the classroom, in the community and […]
Tip-off Wednesday: B.C. high school basketball is back, and minutes after news breaks, we catch up with six of our veteran coaches!
B.C. high school basketball coaches could barely contain their excitement Tuesday evening as they spoke with Varsity Letters just minutes after the official decision came down that B.C. high school basketball’s delayed opening was over, and that tip-off around the province would take place on Wednesday.“They have been waiting to go now for weeks,” said […]
B.C. junior boys 2021-22 preseason basketball rankings: VC Fighting Irish, Oak Bay Bays, WV Highlanders and WGSS Gators the early Final Four pick!
LANGLEY — The B.C. junior boys preseason basketball rankings, released Tuesday morning by the Junior Boys Provincial Committee, reflect the strength of programs concentrated through the geographic regions of the Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley and southern Vancouver Island regions.1 Vancouver College Fighting Irish (VSS)2 Oak Bay Bays (Victoria) (VI)3 West Vancouver Highlanders (VSS)4 Walnut Grove […]