LANGLEY — Sage Stobbart looked lost.The tears were welling up, and while the rest of her Seycove teammates were celebrating the thrill of their lives Saturday at the Langley Events Centre, the Seyhawks’ 6-foot-2 forward stood transfixed, unable to find a shoulder to embrace.
High School
Tweedy’s comeback Supergirls top Abby, cop B.C. title spoils in Battle of Panthers
LANGLEY — She wore Supergirl socks this week during her team’s heart-stopping run at the Telus B.C. girls high school basketball championships.
STA’s Fighting Saints cap dream season for girls basketball at North Van school
LANGLEY — They did not field a girls basketball team at the senior varsity level in 2016-17, but North Vancouver’s St. Thomas Aquinas Fighting Saints still had what could only be described as a dream hoops season.One week after the Fighting Saints won the B.C. Grade 9 title, they stepped up to an even bigger […]
How Happy Howie would construct the BC Boys Quad-A hoops draw
LANGLEY — The draw for the Telus B.C. senior boys basketball championships will be made Sunday (3:30 p.m.) via livestream (tfsetv.com) from the Langley Events Centre.In the spirit of it all, I present the Quad-A draw, as if I had been summoned the power to create the 16-team bracket.As I always say, it’s never perfect, […]
Paint this one close! Seyhawks earn B.C. Double-A finals berth return by going inside
LANGLEY — It’s one thing to believe in your ability to hit long-range jump shots.It’s another to rest on it in the highest stakes game of your season.
Vernon Panthers: Small bench, big ambition en route to berth in BC 2A final
LANGLEY — Vernon Secondary is a lot larger than the fictional Hickory High depicted in the definitive hoops-underdog movie Hoosiers.
Tweedy Panthers top Thunder in Surrey derby, Sidhu carries team into B.C. title tilt
LANGLEY — Maryn Budiman and the rest of the seniors with Surrey’s Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers have one more game remaining in their high school basketball careers.
Abby ends Brookswood title streak at three, will play for first B.C. final since 1984
LANGLEY — There is one thing that Abbotsford Panthers head coach Prentice Lenz swears never comes up in conversation as he and his players dissect the day-to-day workings of a high school basketball team.
Tweedy terrific: Panthers unseat undefeated Oak Bay, punch tickets to Final Four
LANGLEY — Together, they were the Saturday night dream that happened two nights too early.
A Dhaliwal delight: Thunder’s ‘Super Sav’ leads Panorama past Grove, into Final Four
LANGLEY — Surrey’s Panorama Ridge Thunder had a sneaky feeling that bringing an ultra-aggressive mindset and leading with their physicality would help them sweeten the aftertaste of an ugly batch of numbers and help them snap a losing streak against their foes.