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 […]
High School Boys Basketball
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 […]
02.18.26 B.C. senior boys Top 10 basketball rankings: Unranked Earl Marriott Mariners use upset win to pull within one victory of B.C. Quad-A tournament berth at South Fraser quarterfinals!
LANGLEY — With two weeks to go until the start of the B.C. senior boys basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre, all four provincial Top 10’s experienced barely a ripple on its collective lakefront.The lone exception, last week’s Quad-A poll saw Surrey’s Grandview Heights Grizzlies ranked at No. 3. On Tuesday, following a 77-73 […]
B.C. Junior Boys Basketball Championships 2026: Are No. 1 Van College, No. 2 Burnaby South on a collision course à la 2022? A drama-packed 32-team field hit the LEC court running on Saturday !
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — Last season’s pre-tournament rankings were better than any mystic’s crystal ball pronouncements.The Argyle Pipers of North Vancouver and the St. Patricks Celtics of Vancouver were respective No. 1 and 2 seeds heading into the 2025 B.C. junior boys championships, and in the end, it was the Celts topping the Pipers 88-73 […]
Varsity Letters bulletin: Coaches and players, please be patient as we finalize our dates for Dec. 2026 Tsumura Basketball Invitationals for girls and boys at the Langley Events Centre!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caTOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY — Hello to our community of senior girls and boys high school basketball coaches around the province of B.C.Howard Tsumura here today with a message to everyone wondering about the dates for the 2026 Tsumura Basketball Invitational which has traditionally been played over the first two weeks of December.Due to […]
02.16.26 BC Basketball Metrics edition: Where are the best boys provincial berth battles! Too many to choose, but how about 4A South Fraser, Okanagan, plus 3A Van Isle and 1A East Valley!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY —Interesting how much intrigue the wildcard factor is ramping up the chatter around the province as we get to that stage of the season where it’s win-or-go-home in the chase for B.C. boys tournament berths.Through our weekly B.C. Basketball Metrics peeks, the plot lines have clearly been sketched, but like any […]