LANGLEY — We’ve gone final at Day 1 of the 2025 B.C. senior girls Double-A basketball championships.Here are your game reports for all eight games played Wednesday.BASKETBALLB.C. SENIOR GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIPSDAY 1 QUAD ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ABy Howard Tsumura, Varsity LettersNO. 8 OAK BAY 75 vs. NO. 9 SEMIAHMOO 64LANGLEY —In the near two seasons which have […]
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FINAL! 02.26.25 Day 1 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior girls DOUBLE-A Sweet 16 opening round!
LANGLEY — We’ve gone final at Day 1 of the 2025 B.C. senior girls Double-A basketball championships.Here are your game reports for all eight games played Wednesday.BASKETBALLB.C. SENIOR GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIPSDAY 1 DOUBLE ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANO. 1 HOLY CROSS 82 vs. NO. 16 HAZELTON 24By HOWARD TSUMURA, VARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — When was the last time the […]
On the road again! Checking in with Prince George’s Duchess Park Condors on their way to BC girls basketball championships!
LANGLEY — Ever ponder just how large the province of B.C. is?Try 944,735 square kilometres, making it larger than Washington, Oregon and California combined, or about four times the size of the United Kingdom.Prince George’s Duchess Park Condors (23-7) aren’t coming the furthest to take part in the 75th anniversary of the B.C. senior girls […]
B.C. tourney time! Your schedules for B.C. junior boys, B.C. senior girls at the LEC!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — It’s eight straight days of B.C. high school basketball championship action beginning Saturday morning at the Langley Events Centre, and we’ve got the provincial tournament draws for all five events right here!~First, the B.C. Junior Boys 32-team championship draw gets underway Saturday through Tuesday.Here’s the complete tournament draw:2025JrBoysDrawThat will be followed […]
Happy, happy birthday… it’s Sweet 75 for the BC girls high school basketball championships! We re-visit a 1994 newspaper article that looked to the future as our girls step onto brightest stage yet!
LANGLEY — In keeping with its date of publication, the hue of its newsprint has begun its fade to yellow.Yet like a perfectly-launched fadeaway jumper, the feeling you get re-reading a pair of articles from the March 8, 1994 edition of The Province newspaper, some 31 years later, seems the same as hitting nothing but […]
02.11.25 edition: B.C. senior girls basketball rankings: Topsy-turvy tumult hits Quad-A! Top five of largest tier thrown for a loop as Argyle Pipers climb to the top of the heap!
LANGLEY — Everyone wants to peak at the right time, especially with provincials tipping off in two weeks.While the rest of B.C.’s tiers remained relatively static since the last polling period, the Quad-A ranks have undergone some mighty upheaval and as the dust clears, coming off Tessa’s Tournament, North Vancouver’s Argyle Pipers are standing tall […]
MEI puts vise grip on AAA No. 1 rank ahead of BC girls championships 75th anniversary tourney! Coach Thiessen calls his 2024-25 Eagles ‘unique’ over his 31 seasons on the bench!
BY HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITYLETTERS.caABBOTSFORD — When you’ve coached basketball for three-plus decades at the same school, you arrive at a juncture of your career where your words begin to carry an-ever deeper meaning.So when MEI Eagles’ senior girls head coach Rick Thiessen, who this season finds himself in his 31st year of guiding either a senior, […]
01.27.25 edition: B.C. senior girls basketball rankings: It’s a month to the start of the provincials, and No. 1’s and No. 2’s holding ground at all four tiers!
LANGLEY — One month out from the start of the B.C. championships and finding spots in the top four of B.C.’s four senior girls varsity tiers is tough sledding.This week, North Vancouver’s Argyle Pipers move up one spot to No. 3 in Quad-A.Prince George’s College Heights Cougars and the Vernon Panthers each move up a […]
B.C. senior girls basketball rankings: First Top 10’s of 2025 show Yale, LFA, Lambrick Park and Mulgrave making the biggest climbs! Seaquam, MEI, SMUS maintain their No. 1 holds!
LANGLEY — The first B.C. senior girls basketball rankings of 2025 for 4A, 3A and 2A.QUAD-A1 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF) (LW-1)2 Brookswood Bobcats (Langley) (EV) (2)3 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (3)4 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS) (4)5 Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers (Surrey) (SF) (5)6 Yale Lions (Abbotsford) (EV) (10)7 Oak Bay Breakers (Victoria) (VI) (HM)8 […]
12.18.24 B.C. girls basketball rankings: No. 1 Seaquam maintains top spot over No. 2 Brookswood after TBI Super 16 title-game win!
LANGLEY — The latest B.C. senior girls basketball rankings for 4A, 3A and 2A!QUAD-A1 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF) (LW-1)2 Brookswood Bobcats (Langley) (EV) (2)3 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (3)4 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS) (5)5 Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers (Surrey) (SF) (6)6 G.W. Graham Grizzlies (Chilliwack) (EV) (4)7 Okanagan Mission Huskies (Kelowna) (OK) (7)8 Kelowna […]