Diego Maffia wraps up his history-making high school career Saturday at the 32nd annual Vancouver Island Seniors Classic all-star game. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Vancouver Island All-Star Saturday: Oak Bay’s Maffia and 71 other boys, girls bid adieu to high school hoops in 32nd annual classic

LANGLEY — Few high school all-star basketball games in North America can claim a history as rich as this Saturday’s 32nd annual edition of the Vancouver Island Senior Classic, a three-game celebration of the Island’s best boys and girls’ graduating seniors.For example, back in the 1992 boys game, when the South beat the North 100-85, […]

Semiahmoo's Deja Lee (left) will lead her Semiahmoo Totems into the 2019-20 season as the clear favourites in B.C. senior girls Quad-A hoops. Always lurking will be Sophia Wisotzki and the rest of Langley's Walnut Grove Gators. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Girls AAAA Basketball Top 10 Rankings: Cache of new contenders includes JV champ Fox, yet Semiahmoo’s Totems a rock-solid No. 1

LANGLEY — Down one returning starter but another year older and another season wiser, Surrey’s Semiahmoo Totems are, to no one’s surprise, an overwhelming favourite to repeat as B.C.’s top-tiered champs, this time at the brand-new Quad-A level.

Ahead of an opening-round clash at the B.C. senior girls AAA tournament, Marina Raocaj (left) and the rest of Richmond's R.A. McMath Wildcats clashed with Karsen Look and the Brookswood Bobcats last December at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational. McMath gets the early nod as B.C.'s No.-1 ranked Triple A team. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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BC Girls AAA Basketball Top 10 Rankings: As a new four-tier era sets to open, Richmond’s McMath Wildcats get early nod as Triple A No. 1

LANGLEY — They took a Final Four-bound Brookswood Bobcats team right down to the wire before suffering a heartbreaking 70-68 loss in the opening round of the recently-completed B.C. senior girls Triple A championships.

Langley Christian's Makenna Gardner and the rest of the Lightning will be the team to beat when the 2019-20 B.C. senior girls AA season tips off in November. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Girls AA basketball Top 10 rankings: Our pre-season peek for 2019-20 has Langley Christian’s Lightning sitting at No. 1

LANGLEY — Welcome to the new world of B.C. senior girls high school basketball. The 2019-20 season will usher in a four-tier world.

Maddy Gobeil (centre) and the South Kam Titans celebrate their second straight B.C. title on Saturday at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Painting a masterpiece: South Kam’s Titans plug the paint, slow Grizzlies forwards en route to Double A repeat title

LANGLEY — Halftime.As the South Kamloops Titans showed Saturday, it can be enough time to change the course of a game and ultimately deliver a repeat provincial championship.Just don’t get too picky with head coach Del Komarniski about exactly what changes he made to turn his Titans into lock-down second-half defenders against Chilliwack’s G.W. Graham […]

Semiahmoo's Izzy Forsyth strains to take a loose ball away from Walnut Grove's Jessica Wisotzki (rear).
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Semi-tough! Totems shake early jitters on big stage, rally to top Gators for BC Quad-A crown; says coach “…their comeback was epic”

LANGLEY — For all of accolades and all of the recognition they receive, the vast majority of Surrey’s Semiahmoo Totems are still over two full years away from donning cap and gown at their high school commencement ceremonies.

A perfect season that ends with a B.C. junior girls championship? PoCo's Terry Fox Ravens had a dream day Saturday at the LEC. (Photo by Garrett James property of the Langley Events Centre 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Poised… and perfect! Terry Fox completes a dream 35-0 season, Ravens hot off the press in decisive B.C. title win over Kelowna

LANGLEY — At every turn along a season-long journey, just when you thought the moment would become too big for them to comprehend, they would confound their audience.

Kelowna's Kennedy Dickie and Semiahmoo's Izzy Forsyth battle for a rebound during Friday's AAA Finla Four clash at the LEC. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2019. All Rights Reserved)
G.W. Graham's Deanna Tuchscherer embraces the feeling that comes with leading her team back to today's B.C. senior girls Double A basketball championship at the LEC. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2019. All Rights Reserved) (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Deanna delivers a dandy! “…she’s done all of her work for that shot” says coach after GWG star leads her Grizzlies back to B.C. Double-A final

LANGLEY — “You know what?” Sarah Mouritzen began. “I am going to cry. She’s 18? She has done all of her work for that shot. For all of the work she put in, she deserves this. When she hit that shot she burst into tears because it meant so much to her. This is awesome.”

Maddy Gobeil didn't let a re-aggravation of her injured ankle slow her down as South Kam topped St. Thomas Aquinas for a chance to repeat as B.C. champs on Saturday. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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South Kam’s Maddy Gobeil re-injures ankle, shakes it off to carry her Titans past STA and back to B.C. Double A final

LANGLEY — The last couple of seasons here at the B.C. senior girls basketball championships, there have been two distinctly different units of time measurement in place.There’s the regular ticking of the game clock which allocates 10 minutes per quarter over four quarters.And there is another kind of time, one usually reserved for fourth-quarter stretch […]