Byrne Creek's Gabe Masangkay (right) is guarded by Langley Christian's Tyse Wagenaar during game 1 of the TBI Select 16 bracket Dec. 4, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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We’ve gone final: You can read all eight TBI 2024 Select 16 Day 1 game reports right here!

LANGLEY —  Day 1 here at the 2024 Tsumura Basketball Invitational is now final.My sincere thanks to Gary Ahuja for his reporting from the South Court site today!Here’s tomorrow’s schedule on the championship side of the draw:SELECT 16 QUARTERFINALS(All games at Centre Court)3 p.m. — Byrne Creek vs. King George4:30 p.m. — Brookswood vs. A.R. […]

Deven Johal (left) of the Kelowna Owls looks to avoid the outstretched shot block attempt of Vancouver College's Ashton Wong during third-place clash at the Kodiak Classic Invitational hosted 11.30.24 by Heritage Woods Secondary School in Port Moody. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Boys 2024: Vancouver College comes to TBI ready to shoot the three! Inspired Irish, under head coach Shams, not weighed down by program’s lengthy B.C. title drought!

PORT MOODY —  On Saturday night, just a handful of hours away from the clock striking December, the Vancouver College Fighting Irish basketball team put on a demonstration of passing, three-point shooting… and the contagious nature of shared smiles.The occasion was the third-place game of the Heritage Woods Kodiak Classic senior boys tournament, and as […]

As the crowd watches, Dover Bay's Frank Linder is guarded by Oak Bay's Diem Orser during championship game action at the Kodiak Classic Invitational hosted 11.30.24 by Heritage Woods Secondary School in Port Moody. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Boys 2024: Quad-A No. 2 Dover Bay, MVP Frank Linder headline Wednesday at Tsumura Basketball Invitational after topping No. 4 Oak Bay in Kodiak Classic title clash!

PORT MOODY — Funny thing how the truly great games all seem to have that one moment which goes on to serve as its handle for future reference.This past Saturday night, midway through the fourth quarter of the final game of the first week of the new B.C. senior boys high school basketball season, fans […]

Doing his best to slow Semiahmoo forward Jack Snead (left) is St. Patrick's Riley Santa Juana during fifth-place game action at the Kodiak Classic Invitational hosted 11.30.24 by Heritage Woods Secondary School in Port Moody. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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Ahead of its Tsumura Basketball opener Wednesday at LEC, Triple-A No. 2 St. Pat’s puts its three-point DNA on display during fifth-place finish at Kodiak Classic!

PORT MOODY — The proliferation of, and reliance on the three-point shot is certainly the grand separator when today’s game is contrasted against a generation past.And yes, we get it, that’s no news flash.Yet while so much has changed from even those turn-of-the-century days when the NBA still called this city home, there are still […]

Spectrum's Justin Hinrichsen (13) rises to the occasion on defence in last March's B.C. Quad-A title game. The Thunder open the new season at No. 1. (Photo by Garrett James property of Langley Events Centre 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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BC Boys Top 10 preseason rankings: 2024-25 to tip off with Spectrum, MEI, Collingwood, Unity topping the charts!

LANGLEY — Top 10 time is back.The B.C. School Sports provincial pre-season high school Top 10 rankings for senior boys basketball have just been released, and as expected, its two largest tiers reflect the respective geographical strengths of two of the province’s time-honoured regions.At Quad-A, three of the top four spots are held by Vancouver […]

Click on our links inside to get high-resolution draws for all four pools at the 2024 boys and girls TBI, once again set for the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2024: All four tournament brackets, complete with full game times, for December’s boys and girls Tsumura Basketball Invitationals at the Langley Events Centre!

(NOTICE TO ALL TEAMS — As of Sunday, Dec. 1 we have made slight alterations to all four boys and girls TBI draws, with Friday semifinals for both the Super 16 and Select 16 draws being staged consecutively in the same gymnasium. Please note this change to the schedule). Basketball fans, you can start to plan […]

Bloodied but unbowed, Saskatchewan's Ercy Avul (18), an Abbotsford-WJ Mouat grad, comes together with teammate Jesse Kuntz Saturday as the Huskies rallied late in the fourth quarter to stun UBC 38-33 Nov. 2, 2024 in the Canada West Hardy Cup semifinals at Thunderbird Stadium. (Photo by Bob Frid property of UBC Athletics 2024. (All Rights Reserved)
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Tracing the football journey of W.J. Mouat Hawks grad Ercy Avul: From Abbotsford to Saskatoon, his late heroics help Sask Huskies grab Hardy Cup finals berth!

VANCOUVER — How long had Ercy Avul worked and waited for what was about as glorious a 108-second span a football player can experience?Last Saturday, Saskatchewan receiver and Abbotsford-W.J. Mouat grad Avul, who prior to the current campaign had missed three of his last four seasons, announced himself with two brilliant plays over the final […]

Nicolas Hauka is back with Week 9 reports this weekend. (Photo courtesy Nicolas Hauka 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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Week 9: The B.C. School Sports Red Zone provincial high school football report 11.01.24 edition with Nicolas Hauka!

Week 9 of the B.C. high school football season is now upon us and there is no there place better to keep abreast of the happenings than Nic Hauka’s BCSS Red Zone report.As usual, we remind you to check back throughout the weekend for game updates!Click here for Week 9 game reports 

Here's some vintage photography from the Varsity Letters BC high school football Time Machine. Welcome back to your link for the Red Zone Report. (Photo by Blair Shier photography 2018. All Rights Reserved)
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Week 7: The B.C. School Sports Red Zone provincial high school football report 10.18.24 edition with Nicolas Hauka!

Week 7 is here, and it looks like a wet one as players, coaches and officials are set to brave the elements.As far as what happens, you can check back here as a link to Nic Hauka’s BCSS Red Zone report.We always remind you to check back throughout the weekend for game updates, and we […]

Seaquam's Mackenzie Henderson is one of a massive number of returning players for the Seahawks, who last season won both the TBI and B.C. Quad-A titles at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Girls 2024: Top to bottom, our Super 16 and Select 16 brackets combine to give the Tsumura Basketball Invitational its strongest overall field ever! The best of 4A, 3A, 2A, 1A in one place! Full draws are right here!

LANGLEY — The senior boys draws for the 2024 Tsumura Basketball Invitational was released Wednesday (Oct. 16).Today, it’s time for the release of the girls TBI draws for both the Super 16 and Select 16 events, each set to begin a four-day run Dec. 11 at the Langley Events Centre.This year, we asked for input […]