By HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — What’s happening this week at Varsity Letters?You’d have thought things would have slowed down, yet constant activity within the window before Spring Break is pulling your founder in different directions at the same time.So much so that I am posting this update to all of our loyal readers who are […]
High School Girls Basketball
TBI 2026: New dates this December for boys and girls Super 16 and Select 16 pools, plus other news as we turn 15 this year!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY TOWNSHIP — The Tsumura Basketball Invitational turns 15 years old this December, and that’s enough time that our traditional weeks on the B.C. boys and girls senior basketball calendar have put down some pretty deep roots.This coming December, however, the dates of the boys and the girls have been moved ahead […]
With its interior defence at its suffocating best, Pipers hold their own kind of class reunion! After four years of chemistry building, Argyle tops Riverside in 4A final for school’s first-ever senior girls BC title!
By HOWARD TSUMURAVarsity LettersLANGLEY — High school reunions of any magnitude aren’t supposed to happen until at least a decade after graduation.Yet on Saturday night at the Langley Event Centre, it was pretty hard to deny the fact that North Vancouver’s Argyle Pipers were going to try and sneak an extra one in about four […]
After 58 years, Vernon’s tireless Panthers ring the bell! Small but undaunted, MVP Chloe Collins and Co top Langley Christian for BC 3A title, buying in to a tireless work ethic espoused by coach Dave Tetrault!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Illusions are best defined as the picture we see when our brains take shortcuts to make sense of the world in real time.For just as surely as a straight stick’s image looks crooked when partially submerged in water, so too does a height-challenged basketball team seemingly grow bigger and stronger […]
Led by forward Solene Jackson’s 30 points, 25 rebounds, No. 1 Holy Cross stands tallest in BC Double-A title win over No. 2 STM!
NO. 1 HOLY CROSS 81 NO. 3 ST. THOMAS MORE COLLEGIATE 51By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – There was a moment early in the third quarter of Saturday’s Double A final of the B.C. senior girls basketball championships when the desperation and ultimate futility of St. Thomas More’s defensive challenge reached an almost […]
Thunder always led by its Parrs, but there’s even more parts to Thunder’s title run! Acwsaltca tops Cedars Christian for BC Single-A Title!
NO. 1 ACWSALCTA 78 NO. 2 CEDARS CHRISTIAN 62By GARY KINSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — LANGLEY – Never mind the 12 long hours it will take, it’s finally going to be a joyous trip home to Bella Coola this weekend for the Acwsalcta Thunder senior girls basketball team.And, for their drum-pounding family members […]
A Final Four 3A finale: An imbedded defensive mindset helps Vernon top Duchess Park as Panthers return to title game for first time since 2017!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity Letters(A note from your author: Due to play-by-play broadcasting responsibilities for all four of Friday’s Final Four games at 3A and 4A, I was unable to produce this story for readers by a reasonable hour. Instead, a night’s rest allows me to present it here from a more rested state of mind. […]
B.C. Quad-A Girls Final Four Friday game 2 Riverside vs. MEI
NO. 2 RIVERSIDE 80 NO. 3 MEI 69 By DAN KINVIG (Special for Varsity Letters)Climbing Everest without oxygen.Swimming the English Channel.Crossing the Sahara on foot.All epic feats of human strength, skill and endurance.Let’s add one more to the list: Dribbling the basketball in Francesca Salonga’s general vicinity.It’s not for the faint of heart, as the MEI […]
B.C. Quad-A Girls Final Four Friday Game 1 Argyle vs. Semiahmoo
NO. 1 ARGYLE 86 NO. 5 SEMIAHMOO 61 By DAN KINVIG (Special for Varsity Letters)Over the first two rounds of the B.C. Quad-A provincial tournament, trying to stop Jaida Claypool and the Semiahmoo Thunderbirds’ high-octane offence evoked lyrics from the classic movie musical The Sound of Music.How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?How […]
B.C. Triple-A Girls Final Four Friday Game 1 Langley Christian vs SMUS
NO. 2 LANGLEY CHRISTIAN 66 NO. 3 ST. MICHAELS 58By DAN KINVIG (Special for Varsity Letters)It’s often said that basketball is a game of runs.In fact, it might be the most overworked cliché in the basketball lexicon. Of course, clichés are clichés because there’s a kernel of truth embedded… but even by that standard, what we […]