One of the great beauties of football is the fact that the elements have a way of forcing your hand, of raining down so hard that the message is clear: Strap it up and run.Yet such atmospheric dictates have never, ever backed Nanaimo’s John Barsby Bulldogs (3-1) into a corner, a fact that head coach […]
High School Football
FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ 10.15.21 B.C. High School Football Report, Friday Night Lights early edition! “The defenses were as good as the weather was bad.”
LANGLEY — Welcome to Week 6 of the B.C. High School football season.The B.C. High School Football Report has been informed of four scheduled games which will not be played this weekend.Friday’s New Westminster at Seaquam, and Abbotsford at Terry Fox games have gone into the books as forfeiture victories for both the visiting Hyacks […]
Domino and Conte put on a show, No. 3 Notre Dame can’t be slowed following decisive win over No. 2 Mt. Douglas at Burnaby Lakes!
AAA WESTNo. 2 MT. DOUGLAS 7 at No. 3 NOTRE DAME 26(To read the entire B.C. High School Football Report, click here, or go to VarsityLetters.ca)BURNABY — B.C.’s most decorated high school football program has only been waiting for what seems like forever to play a game on it own school grounds.Next week, the Notre […]
No. 2 Mt. Douglas at No. 3 Notre Dame: Who wins? Victoria’s Rams with its Thunder & Lightning at backfield, or the Iron Curtain defence of East Van’s Jugglers!
BURNABY — The heavens have been threatening all week with a distinct dark-cloud scowl, and yet if the football gods do indeed decide to order up rain by sheets for Friday afternoon’s highly-anticipated AAA clash of unbeatens at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex (2 p.m.), then so be it.East Vancouver’s No. 3-ranked Notre Dame Jugglers have […]
A coin-flip showdown for No. 1 under Friday Night Lights: AA’s showcase game features top-ranked, host Langley T-Birds against Abby’s No. 2 Bateman T-Wolves!
LANGLEY — The only coin-flip you’re going to see Friday at McLeod Stadium (7 p.m.) is the one at the 50-yard line to determine who will receive the football to start B.C.’s first No. 1 vs. No. 2 high school football match-up since 2019.Yet trying to predict a winner between the top-ranked and host Langley […]
The beauty of high school school sports: When Kelowna Owls’ team bus blows a tire on Coquihalla, its game-day football trip to Abbotsford takes on a higher meaning!
If you happened to be headed south on the Coquihalla last Friday morning, somewhere in the range of 20 minutes outside of Merritt, then maybe you witnessed first-hand what one venerable B.C. high school football coach so passionately labels “… one of those moments along the journey.”There it was: A school bus from Kelowna Secondary, […]
Following in his father’s QB footsteps proves a natural path for South Kam’s Jesse Peters: Titans’ BCSSFA Player of the Week showcases big arm with a four-TD performance!
KAMLOOPS — Considering the quarterbacking lineage which is so rooted in his family, the story of how Jesse Peters came to bark out the signals for the South Kamloops Titans senior varsity is thoroughly entertaining… and heartfelt.“I didn’t know much about football and I had never played quarterback before, but my dad was a big […]
Bateman QB Nolan Watrin carries on a family tradition: Varsity Letters’ BCSSFA Player of the Week leads Double-A in both passing yards and picks for No. 2-ranked Timberwolves!
ABBOTSFORD — When opposition coaches sit down in the film room to do their pre-game due diligence, they all arrive at a point where they see just how natural the kid wearing No. 3 for the Robert Bateman Timberwolves looks whether he’s commanding the huddle at quarterback or making a big play on defence from […]
B.C. High School Football Weekend Survival Guide 10.12.21 edition: Get ready for our first statement games! Bateman vs. Langley, Notre Dame vs. Mt. Doug top the charts!
LANGLEY — Welcome to the biggest high school football weekend of the season thus far.We’ve got our first No. 1 vs. No. 2 when Abbotsford’s Robert Bateman Timberwolves travel to top-ranked Langley to face the Thunderbirds in an epic AA clash at McLeod Stadium (7 p.m.).We’ve also got the No. 2 Mt. Douglas Rams of […]
Fighting Irish making O’Hagan their fortress! No. 1-AAA Vancouver College stays perfect at 5-0 following shutout win over Seaquam Seahawks!
VANCOUVER — In case you’re wondering, it’s been 749 days since the Vancouver College Fighting Irish last lost a football game.That’s over two years and counting, and although we know the pandemic wiped out the entire 2020 season, the smart money — based on the way the Irish has picked up in 2021 where it […]