Eric 'The Irish Rifle' Zychlinski was near flawless Friday as he led Vancouver College past Notre Dame in the 62nd annual Archbishops' Trophy game at Burnaby Lakes. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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11.03.18 BCHSF bonus report! Irish eyes smiling, Ravens rolling, Isles new Pac champs, much-improved Mission, the Polars’ QB superstar

LANGLEY — Some late finishes, some tardy coaches, some e-gremlins. Put them all together and you’ve got a bonus Saturday morning edition of Varsity Letters’ B.C. High School Football Report.

Quenching a conference-best thirst, Surrey's Holy Cross Crusaders completed a last-to-first rise in the AA Western Conference with a win over the Windsor Dukes Friday, on the final weekend of the regular season. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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FINAL EDITION: 11.02.18 Friday Night Lights B.C. High School Football Report, regular-season finale edition

LANGLEY — The Friday Night Lights shine for the final time in this 2018 B.C. high school football regular season. Subway Bowl’s one-month run beckons, but before we get there, it time to put the cap on a tremendous conference campaign.

Notre Dame head coach Denis Kelly (right), pictured chatting with assistant and longtime former head coach George Oswald earlier this season, has stood on both sidelines of the Archbishops' Trophy game. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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VC Irish vs. ND Jugglers: All the fun facts behind six-plus decades of the Archbishops’ Trophy game

VANCOUVER — It’s a game with enough reverence that you can almost hear the legendary voice of college football’s Keith Jackson providing its play-by-play.On Friday, a 7:30 p.m. kick-off will herald the 62nd playing of the annual Archbishops’ Trophy game at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex between the host Notre Dame Jugglers and the visiting […]

Notre Dame's Will Clarke and South Delta's Ben McDonald put on the perhaps the most impressive offensive show on a B.C. high school football field since Mouat's Maleek Irons rushed for 491 yards in 2012. The duo combined for 758 yards of offence and 11 touchdowns in a game in which 102 points were scored. (Photos by Howard Tsumura (left) and Mark Booth respective property of VarsityLetters.ca and The Delta Optimist)
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Big Ben vs. Will the Thrill in true QB super-power clash! 11.01.18 Varsity Letters’ B.C. High School Football Performances of the Week

How many ‘Great Performances’ is too many? If you’re a B.C. high school football fan, you can never get too much of a good thing. 

North Vancouver's Handsworth Royals take a B.C. AAAA No. 4 ranking into the Red Serge Invitational beginning Friday at Port Coquitlam's Riverside Secondary. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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B.C. girls high school volleyball: It’s Red Serge Week in PoCo! Plus full rankings and tourney finishes

LANGLEY — A gold-medal finish at its own invitational tournament keeps Victoria’s two-time B.C. champion Belmont Bulldogs atop the provincial Top 10 AAAA world according to the Top 10 polls released Thursday by the ranking committee of B.C. Girls High School Volleyball Association. 

Sixteen of the best B.C. senior boys basketball teams will converge on the LEC Dec. 6-8 for the 2018 Tsumura Basketball Invitational. (LEC graphic)
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Tsumura Basketball Invitational: Complete draw for our senior boys 16-team, 32-game classic at the LEC

LANGLEY — If you were at the Langley Events Centre last March, you got a chance to witness just how ever-evolving and fluid the state of a high school basketball team really is.

Surrey's Earl Marriott Mariners took first place at the UBC Mizuno Invitational at the end of September and they've stayed hot ever since, keeping their grip on No. 1 in the AAA B.C. Top 10 for another week. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of UBC athletics)
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10.30.18 B.C. senior boys volleyball rankings: All three tiers check in as AAA’s Mariners, Talismen and Spartans hold court

Here are the latest rankings from all three tiers of B.C. senior boys high school volleyball.The Thompson Rivers WolfPack Invitational this past weekend in Kamloops helped shuffle some teams below Triple A’s top three.There is one more weekend of invitational play remaining before zone tournaments begin.SENIOR BOYSTRIPLE A1 Earl Marriott Mariners (Surrey) (LW-1)2 Van Tech […]

Nanaimo District's Kyle Lindsay led the Islanders to a 2016 B.C. Subway Bowl AA junior varsity title. Two years later, he's 11th in senior AAA rushing as NDSS hits the second season with gusto. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters.ca)
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Hub City’s humble heroes: As Nanaimo District football turns 18, its Islanders charter path to top of AAA Pacific Conference

NANAIMO — Spend any amount of time chatting with him about the near-generation he has spent planting the roots of B.C. high school football at Nanaimo District Secondary School, and it become clear pretty quickly that Islanders’ head coach Nate Stevenson isn’t in the business of complaining about what his program doesn’t have.

Among the new wave of leaders within the roster of defending B.C. champion Dr. Charles Best Blue Devils is Jaedinn Mushtuk (right) seen here in 2017 B.C. Final Four action against the Reynolds Roadrunners. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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BC boys AAA high school soccer: Oak Bay enters playoffs at No. 1, defending champion Charles Best among Fraser Valley faves

COQUITLAM — You’re the defending champs and you’ve welcomed an octet of eight key players back into the team from last November’s memorable run through the B.C. AAA tournament.

With a victory this weekend, Kojo Odoom (23), Trey Jones and the rest of Surrey's Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers would complete a wire-to-wire regular-season stronghold on the No. 1 spot in the B.C.AAA rankings. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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10.30.18 edition: Halloween Week’s super scary B.C. High School Football Weekend Survival Guide with Big 5 ranks, Top 5 games, etc!

LANGLEY — The final weekend of the 2018 B.C. high school football regular season is here, and with it, five conference titles. Top spot in the both AAA’s Western and Pacific conferences are up for grabs. Ditto for AA’s East, Interior and West.