RICHMOND — With four minutes to go in the first quarter of Friday’s Lower Mainland Triple-A championship third-place game, Aaron Mitchell looked up at the scoreboard at The Oval and got a little queasy.
High School Boys Basketball
North Delta Huskies: JV dreams tied to honouring a golden past
NORTH DELTA — The toughest and most unpredictable tournament to try and win in the entire canon of B.C. high school basketball tips off Saturday
02.23.17 edition: Varsity Letters’ Big 10 boys basketball rankings
Only one more set of Top 10 rankings remain this season. Plenty of movement in the Quad A rankings this weekend, including a newcomer from Coquitlam.
BC Junior Boys hoops draw now live!
Here’s the BC junior boys opening round draw, set for Saturday.The first eight games comprise the top half of the draw, the second eight, the bottom half.All the action takes place at the Langley Events Centre through Tuesday:
Miguel Tomley: BCSS denies his appeal for 11th-hour eligibility
SURREY — Miguel Tomley, one of the most talented B.C. high school basketball players of his generation, has had his final appeal for eligibility for the remainder of the 2016-17 season denied by B.C. School Sports.
Roberto Mazzone: A Saint’s relentless march towards March
VANCOUVER — One of the greatest rebounders of all time once said ‘Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory’.
02.15.17: The Varsity Letters Big 10 boys senior varsity basketball rankings
The week’s senior boys rankings as we head into the main portion zone tournament play:VARSITY LETTERSBIG 10 BASKETBALL RANKINGSSENIOR BOYSQUAD A (records, ranking reflect games played through Feb. 8-14. Records indicate games against B.C. competition only)1. Walnut Grove Gators (Langley) (24-1) (LW-1)Last week — Def. Lord Tweedsmuir 100-52, def. W.J. Mouat 74-61 to win Fraser […]
The DeVries family: A basketball story of father and son
ABBOTSFORD — It was on one of those recent snow days in the eastern part of the Fraser Valley when a father and his son, both shut-ins for the day, settled together on the couch and watched a basketball game played over a quarter-century ago.
Vancouver 3A final: King George Dragons and an ode to MJ’s flu game
VANCOUVER — Darko Kulic went to bed Thursday night knowing that he wasn’t going to need a rousing pre-game speech in the minutes before his King George Dragons took to the court for the Vancouver City 2A-3A championship final on Friday.
Vancouver Quad A final: It’s Dok, Ty, Luka and the Demons
VANCOUVER — They have faced each other since the current seniors were eighth graders, so it was no surprise that the Kitsilano Blue Demons and Killarney Cougars