Holy Cross' Solene Jackson helped her team to a narrow win over SMUS in the second round of play on Day 1 at the B.C. junior girls basketball championships in Langley. (Photo by Gary Ahuja property of LEC 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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JUNIOR: Game reports from Day 1 of the 2023 B.C. JUNIOR girls basketball championships!

BY GARY AHUJA (Special for Varsity Letters)The 16 games are done and the 24 teams are now settled into their three 8-team brackets (Championship, Showcase and Rivalry) following 16 games on day one of the Junior Girls Basketball Provincial Invitational Tournament!TOP HALF DRAWNo. 1 OAK BAY 56 No. 17 FLEETWOOD PARK 32LANGLEY — Facing an […]

Walnut Grove's Kiera Pemberton drivers past the Mt. Baker Wild during Day 1 of the B.C. senior girls basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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QUAD A: Game reports from Day 1 of the 2023 B.C. Quad-A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here with regularity for updated reports from this tier of play.STORIES BY GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)QUAD-ATOP HALF DRAWNo. 1 WALNUT GROVE GATORS 97 No. 16 MOUNT BAKER WILD 28LANGLEY – […]

Mulgrave's Katelyn Takeuchi measures up a shot against Prince George's Has Ti Kelly Road Grizzlies during Day 1 of the B.C. senior girls basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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DOUBLE-A: Game reports from Day 1 of the 2023 B.C. Double A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here with regularity for updated reports from this tier of play.TOP HALF DRAW STORIES BY BRAD ZIEMER (Special for Varsity Letters)BOTTOM HALF DRAW STORIES BY DAN KINVIG (Special for Varsity Letters)No. 1 […]

UVic-bound Makena Anderson of the SMUS Blue Jags looks to shoot over Seaton's Mya Koleba during Day 1 of the B.C. senior girls basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TRIPLE-A: Game reports from Day 1 of the 2023 B.C. Triple A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here with regularity for updated reports from this tier of play.TRIPLE-ATOP HALF DRAWNo. 1 ST. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL 80 No. 16 W.L. SEATON 36LANGLEY — Makena Anderson is not a player searching […]

Last season, the St. Thomas More Knights and MEI Eagles battled on the opening day of the 2022 BC junior Girls Basketball championships. Both schools are back in 2023, the Knights as the No. 12 seed and the Eagles as the No. 10 seed. The four-day tourney kicks off Wednesday in Langley. (Photo by Gary Ahuja property of Langley Events Centre 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Junior Girls Basketball Championships 2023: Victoria’s Oak Bay Breakers, Abby’s Yale Lions earn 24-team event’s top two seeds ahead of Wednesday tip-off!

LANGLEY — Victoria’s Oak Bay Breakers have been installed as the favourites heading into the 41st annual B.C. junior girls basketball championships, which is set to begin its four-day run to Centre Court at the LangleyEvents Centre on  Wednesday.The 24-team tournament is set to play the majority of its games at two local area high […]

Kiera Pemberton and Langley's Walnut Grove Gators are the No. 1 seed at Quad A heading into the B.C. championships March 1 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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Your road to the Final Four! B.C. girls high school championship brackets released for 4A, 3A, 2A tournaments! Here’s your personal guide to March Madness at the LEC!

LANGLEY — The B.C. senior girls basketball championships will pave three paths to championship finals beginning March 1 at the Langley Events Centre.On Wednesday evening, the Double-A, Triple-A and Quad-A Sweet 16 brackets were all revealed at TFSETV.caHere’s each of those brackets for you to plan your four days of excitement at the LEC.QUAD ATRIPLE […]

John Oliver's Donna Pimentel sunk seven triples as the Jokers punched their BC tourney ticket with a win over the Pitt Meadows Marauders. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. senior girls basketball’s sudden-elimination Tuesday: We’ve got all the details as 10 team battled for their Last chance to the Big Dance!

LANGLEY — It all came down to one last-chance-to-the-big-dance moment for 10 B.C. senior girls basketball teams on Tuesday.With 27 of the 32 total teams already determined for the B.C. senior girls Quad-A and Triple-A championship finals, five sudden-elimination games took the spotlight Tuesday.The five winners will be plugged into their respective draws as part […]

Your author is set to be joined by host Chris Kennedy as TFSETV.ca presents the 2023 BC girls high school basketball provincial tournament draw show from the LEC. (Photo property Varsity Letters 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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On the road to BC girls Sweet 16 tip-off: First, it’s five Tuesday sudden-elimination games, then Wednesday’s 7 p.m. bracket reveal show on TFSETV.ca!

LANGLEY — It’s been an incredible regular season in the B.C. senior girls high school ranks, and all of that had led to two more days of final prep ahead of the Big Dance.So, before the B.C. junior, and senior 2A, 3A and 4A championships tip off a four-day run at the Langley Event Centre […]

Okanagan Mission Huskies' senior Kanani Coon, pictured in action at the 2022 Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag 2022 property of Langley Events Centre. All Rights Reserved)
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A Sunday Read: She’s the 1% of the 1%, but huge odds can’t stop Okanagan Mission’s NCAA Div. 1-bound Kanani Coon from fulfilling her promise both on the court, and within her First Nations community!

KELOWNA — Kanani Coon never thought about just how heavily the odds were stacked against her.They were, after all, based solely on numbers, and any basketball player worth their jumper knows that numbers never reveal entire truths.Still, these were the kinds of facts and figures so definitive in nature that they seemed to be telling […]

Burnaby's Central's Ankita Chopra (left) dishes the ball against Fleetwood Park's Amber Patrignani Dec. 14, 2022 in the opening round of the Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Burnaby Central’s three-point reign proves too much for Rapids, No. 3 Wildcats upset No. 1 Rapids behind 26 points from MVP Chopra in Fraser North Quad-A title tilt!

BURNABY — Call it the wow factor of the Wildcats from Burnaby Central.Grade 11 forward Ankita Chopra’s baseline trey 40 seconds into the proceedings signalled the first of the team’s 15 three-point buckets on the night as the No. 3-ranked ’Cats, wire-to-wire leaders, beat the No. 1 Riverside Rapids of Port Coquitlam 74-61 to capture […]