LANGLEY — Final Four Friday is set here at the 2021 girls Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre.In the 6:45 p.m. opener, Double A No. 1 Langley Christian meets Quad-A No. 6 Riverside.In the 8:15 p.m. finale, No. 1 Quad A Terry Fox battles Quad A No. 10 South Delta.If you want to […]
High School Girls Basketball
FINAL EDITION: Tsumura Girls Basketball Day 2 reports: Fox-Churchill, MEI-S. Delta, Riverside-Brookswood, LCS-SMUS as Elite 8 set for Friday!
This is the final wrap from Day 2 of the Girls 2021 Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre.All game reports and photos are below.First, here’s a look at tomorrow’s championship quarterfinals. Remember, semifinals tip at 6:45 and 8:15 p.m. Friday, with Saturday’s final tipping at 8:30 p.m.QUARTERFINALS (All games on Centre Court)TOP HALF […]
A trio of Ravens sign with Fraser Valley Cascades women’s basketball: Misic, Weloy, Clements chart their Canada West futures together!
LANGLEY — In announcing on Thursday the signing of three players from the B.C. Quad-A No. 1-ranked Terry Fox Ravens senior girls basketball team, Fraser Valley Cascades head coach Al Tuchscherer was posed a question whose answer would speak best to the total impact of incoming the trio.If you were coaching a three-on-three team of […]
South Delta Sun Devils move into girls Quad-A rankings as B.C. No. 10, while Fox keeps No. 1 and Churchill surges to No. 4!
LANGLEY — The South Delta Sun Devils, unranked to open the B.C. senior girls Quad-A basketball season, were installed at No. 10 in the latest rankings released Wednesday evening.Those rankings also show Vancouver’s Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs jumping up from No. 10 to No. 4, while the Abbotsford’s Yale Lions move into the Top 10 […]
FINAL EDITION Tsumura Basketball 2021 Day 1 complete: Seaquam, MEI, G.W. Graham, S. Delta, Argyle, Tweedsmuir head into Thursday’s Sweet 16!
Welcome to Day 1 of the 2021 Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre.We’ve wrapped it up for the night with reports from all four opening round games, but first, here’s tomorrow’s complete schedule:TOP HALF DRAW (all games at Centre Court)QUAD A6:15 p.m. — Terry Fox vs. Lord Tweedsmuir8 p.m. — Sir Winston Churchill […]
A profile in courage: Despite losing his sight in late November, Sheldon Guy comes to TBI 2021 ready to coach his Langley Thunderbirds girls basketball team!
LANGLEY — The darkness is still new to Sheldon Guy.Like nothing else he could ever imagine, it came out of nowhere and over the course of about three weeks in late November and early December, it became the thief which stole his sight.There have been some really bad days, and understandably, moments filled with dread […]
TBI Girls Hoops 2021: How do you re-schedule an 18-team tourney? Here’s our new draw with a Tsumura ‘message of thanks’ to all players and coaches!
LANGLEY — All teams talk about their journey.In 2021, the girls Tsumura Basketball Invitational has got a story to tell as well.From our own cancelled 2020 tournament, we re-invited the entire field to join us in ’21.A huge number of teams were able to say ‘yes’, but others, for various reasons, most heartbreakingly those with […]
Jessica Wisotzki: How the simple game of one-on-one helped show Simon Fraser’s super sophomore the way to unlock her true scoring talents!
BURNABY MOUNTAIN — Sometimes simple works best. Just ask Jessica Wisotzki.As the Simon Fraser women’s basketball teams continues preparation this week for its Great Northwest Athletic Conference opener Saturday (7 p.m.) in Bellingham against its arch rivals, the Western Washington Vikings, perhaps you have noticed a defined uptick in the sophomore guard-forward’s scoring numbers throughout […]
Tip-off Wednesday: B.C. high school basketball is back, and minutes after news breaks, we catch up with six of our veteran coaches!
B.C. high school basketball coaches could barely contain their excitement Tuesday evening as they spoke with Varsity Letters just minutes after the official decision came down that B.C. high school basketball’s delayed opening was over, and that tip-off around the province would take place on Wednesday.“They have been waiting to go now for weeks,” said […]
B.C. Girls Top 10 preseason basketball rankings: Terry Fox, R.A. McMath, Langley Christian, Credo Christian plus Fleetwood JV’s top the polls ahead of 2021-22 tip-off!
LANGLEY — A cancelled season makes the task of putting together pre-season rankings in any sport especially tough, so our thanks to everyone at the B.C. Secondary Schools Girls Basketball Association for taking a deep dive into all of the rosters to present our 2021-22 B.C. senior and juniors girls basketball Top 10 preseason rankings.Fingers […]