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 […]
High School Football
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 […]
No. 3 AAA Notre Dame does it again on defence! After 34-0 win over South Delta, 5-0 Jugglers have still not allowed a single point!
TSAWWASSEN — If you want to let the numbers do the speaking, then the Notre Dame Jugglers did to the host South Delta Sun Devils what they have done to every team the East Vancouver school has faced this season.No. 3-ranked Notre Dame, en route to winning all five of its games by shutout this […]
Earl Marriott senior Armaan Gill, Grade 9 Cameron Boyes enjoy special moments as Mariners top Frank Hurt Hornets, move to 2-0 in AAA Pacific!
SURREY — Armaan Gill, like so many other Class of ’22 B.C. high school football seniors, had his Grade 11 season snatched away in 2020 by the global pandemic.So you have to know that every moment is being savoured by the current crop of Grade 12s, and on Saturday, Gill didn’t waste a single moment.Gill, […]
FINAL: Varsity Letters’ 10.08.21 B.C. High School Football Report, Friday Night Lights LATE-NITE edition!
LANGLEY — Welcome to another addition of the 2021 Varsity Letters B.C. High School Football Report for the Thanksgiving Day long weekend.Keep checking back on this post throughout the evening as we continue to update games from around the province and remember that the records you see for all of the teams is their conference […]