LANGLEY — Kaman Kaila swears he was feeling it in the warm-ups early Sunday afternoon here at the B.C. junior boys basketball championships.With his New Westminster Hyacks set to face the Richmond Colts on the consolation side of the bracket, the 6-foot-2 grade 10 guard had a feeling he might be able to do something […]
High School Boys Basketball
With shades of past Yale glory, the Brothers Roberts harken memories of 2015’s Jauquin-Riley duo as Lions tops Mountain for 4A Valley East crown!
LANGLEY — You sat courtside and watched their efficiency.Your eye would wander to the scoreboard, where at times it seemed like the digits were changing at hyper speed.In the end, against an R.E, Mountain Eagles team of Langley, which has earned so much on its own merit with its recent groundbreaking berth to the upcoming […]
With its Big Barometre back, MEI Eagles top Brookswood to claim Eastern Valley’s lone Triple-A Big Dance ticket!
LANGLEY — Ask Mike Lee how well he thought his MEI Eagles might have played on any certain day this season, and the team’s head coach goes to one place in his mind’s eye first.He’ll think about how well the team’s 6-foot-9 forward Spencer Tatlock played before he speaks about the entire team.“We go by […]
Burnaby South look like a team entering their peak! On the eve of March Madness, Rebels find stride in Fraser North title win over Heritage Woods!
LANGLEY — It’s not a stretch to say that the Burnaby South Rebels have faced more adversity off the court than on it this senior boys basketball season.A mass of complications which arose from its initial self-reporting of playing an ineligible player in games suddenly took on a life of its own, and in the […]
B.C. Junior boys 2024 Elite 8: St. Pat’s beats Pacific Academy in OT thriller to end Cinderella run of 22nd-seeded Breakers!
By Nic Flint (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — On paper, this was supposed to be a walk in the park for the top-seeded St. Patrick’s Celtics of Vancouver as they took on the 22nd-seeded Pacific Academy Breakers of Surrey in the quarterfinal round Saturday as B.C. junior boys basketball championships hit the midway mark of […]
B.C. Junior boys 2024 Elite 8: Oak Bay Bays punch Final Four ticket by showing their punch on offensive glass, top Collingwood as chase for title continues!
By Nic Flint (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — The quarter-final match-up between the eighth-seeded Collingwood Cavaliers and the top seeded Oak Bay Bays was a high-energy, physical game from the very beginning that the Bays would go on to win 55-43.Both teams’ defences started out very well, playing physical and not allowing easy, open shots […]
Fraser North Triple-A finals: Magic Moe and the Ramblers roll! Maple Ridge off to BC’s after gritty win over St. Thomas More Knights!
LANGLEY — The Maple Ridge Ramblers are starting to look like the Detroit Lions of B.C. high school basketball.From winless, 0-20 season in 2021-22 as Grade 9s to qualifying for the B.C. senior boys Triple-A tournament as the champions of the Fraser North?Yup.“We went from not winning a game with our crew in Grade 9.. […]
B.C. Junior Boys 2024 Elite 8: Game-turning treys from Tan-Ngo, Mayott propel VC Fighting Irish past Enter Creek and into Final Four!
No. 2 VANCOUVER COLLEGE 44 No. 7 ENVER CREEK 38LANGLEY — There was a critical juncture in Sunday’s quarterfinal clash here at the 2024 B.C. junior boys basketball champions where you could pause, scratch your head and think that just maybe you could see a slight crack in the armour of this current edition of […]
B.C. Junior boys 2024 Elite 8: Terry Fox Grade 9 trio digs deeps for professor Chambers, Ravens top LA Matheson for Final Four berth!
No. 7 TERRY FOX 56 No. 4 L.A. MATHESON 49LANGLEY — Rich Chambers has spent the majority of his Hall of Fame coaching career coming to the realization that in the end, it all comes up down to what his young student-athletes are able to get done on the court.Yet as one of our game’s […]
Pacific Academy Breakers head coach Joel Ashbee is in his element coaching up David Ude during Round 2 action Saturday as the Langley Events Centre opened its four-day run as host of the 2024 B.C. junior boys basketball championships. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2024. All Rights Reserved
Surrey’s Pacific Academy Breakers crashing the party at BC Jr. Boys tourney! Unique pre-game ritual has No. 22-seeds a win from Final 4!
A message from Howard:We’ve included this story as part of our Day 1 reports at VarsityLetters.ca, but it’s so unique we’re presenting it as a stand-alone story here!No. 22 Pacific Academy 64 No. 6 Abbotsford Christian 48LANGLEY — The No. 22 slot in the B.C. junior boys basketball championship draw is not some sweet spot […]