By Howard Tsumura(VarsityLetters.ca)LANGLEY — The Tsumura Basketball Invitational is once again proud to help usher in a new season of B.C. senior boys and girls high school basketball.The 2025-26 campaign will only be in its second week of play when the TBI begins a two-week run at the Langley Events Centre with our senior boys […]
High School Girls Basketball
Fourth-quarter flurry once again turns the tide, Seaquam repeats as B.C. Quad-A champions as Toor’s three-point parade and Tait’s MVP ways carry the day against Nohr and Brookswood Bobcats!
LANGLEY — If you dissect an entire high school basketball season into its thousands upon thousands of shiny 10-minute quarters, there will always be one above all others that is worth its weight in gold.It is, of course, the one that follows every other quarter that comes before it.And because it arrives, full of mystery […]
SMUS Blue Jags turn tables on the Myth of Sisyphus! After two years of heartbreak, MVP Avery Geddes helps push rock to top of the hill in B.C. Double-A title win over Holy Cross!
B.C. CHAMPIONSHIPSDOUBLE-ANO. 2 SMUS 62 NO . 1 HOLY CROSS 54By HOWARD TSUMURA (Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — They didn’t just borrow a page from the mythical tales of Sisyphus.No.In fact at times over their prior two seasons, it almost felt like the senior girls basketball team from Victoria’s St. Michaels University School was gathering the kind […]
Fairytale finish! MEI tops Sa-Hali Sabres for B.C. 3A crown, Eagles first in 26 years and head coach Rick Thiessen’s first ever!
NO. 1 MEI 50 NO. 2 SA-HALI 49By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – As the final buzzer sounded and his MEI team raced to centre court to join students, relatives and others in a raucous celebration after the Eagles’ 3A championship final win, longtime head coach Rick Thiessen stood by himself on the […]
Pacific Christian breaks quarter-century title drought as Pacers top SAM Grizzlies to win B.C. girls 1A crown!
SINGLE ANO. 1 PACIFIC CHRISTIAN 70 NO. 2 SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE 63 (BY GARY KINGSTON, SPECIAL FOR VARSITY LETTERS)LANGLEY – The Cinderella story ended in agonizing fashion Saturday afternoon, but there was still a celebratory marriage of sorts in the Single A final of the B.C. senior girls basketball championships.The Pacific Christian Pacers, bridesmaids in 2023 […]
02.28.25 Day 3 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior girls QUAD-A Final Four round!
We’ve gone final from Day 3 of the 2025 B.C. girls high school basketball championships with complete reports from today’s two semifinals.NO. 2 SEAQUAM 75 NO. 3 RIVERSIDE 61BY HOWARD TSUMURA, VARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — The game of Neelum Sidhu’s life came on the second-to-last day of her high school basketball career.It came from off the […]
FINAL: 02.28.25 Day 3 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior girls DOUBLE-A Final Four round!
We’ve gone final from Day 3 of the 2025 B.C. girls high school basketball championships with complete reports from today’s two semifinals.NO. 1 HOLY CROSS 81 NO. 4 ST. THOMAS MORE 73By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – The Holy Cross Crusaders senior girls basketball team will run opponents dizzy with their speed. And […]
FINAL: 02.28.25 Day 3 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior girls TRIPLE-A Final Four round!
We’ve gone final from Day 3 of the 2025 B.C. girls high school basketball championships with complete reports from today’s two semifinals.NO. 1 MEI 64, NO. 4 VERNON 55BY DAN KINVIG (Special for Varsity Letters)The MEI Eagles are so deep and tall and talented and versatile, they can beat you in any number of ways.But […]
FINAL: 02.28.25 Day 3 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior girls SINGLE-A Final Four round!
We’ve gone final from Day 3 of the 2025 B.C. girls high school basketball championships with complete reports from today’s two semifinals.NO. 1 PACIFIC CHRISTIAN 50 NO. 4 UNITY CHRISTIAN 23By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – Boss Bakery in Vancouver’s Chinatown makes legendary turnovers, apple ones being the best sellers.At the Langley Events […]
FINAL: 02.27.25 Day 2 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior girls SINGLE-A Final Eight round!
BY GARY AHUJA(Courtesy Langley Events Centre)1A TournamentUnity Christian Flames 42 King’s Christian Thunder 37Back and forth for the first three quarters – the game was tied on eight separate occasions with neither team ahead by more than four – the defending champion Unity Christian Flames scored six straight points to open the final period, defeating […]