LANGLEY — We’ve gone final here at the Langley Events Centre.Great games were on display at all four tiers.Thanks for your loyalty to Varsity Letters and your patience as we get stories and photos on line as quickly as possible.A huge thanks to our writers tonight: Gary Ahuja, Dan Kinvig and Gary Kingston.As well to […]
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FINAL: 03.05.25 Day 1 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior boys QUAD-A Sweet 16 opening round!
LANGLEY — We’ve gone final from Day 1 of the 2025 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Included are eight game stories and photos. We hope you enjoy.Our thanks go out to out team of writers (Gary Kingston, Dan Kinvig, Ian French, Gary Ahuja) and to our photographers (Gordon Kalisch, Wilson Wong and Ryan Molag)We will be […]
FINAL: 03.05.25 Day 1 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior boys TRIPLE-A Sweet 16 opening round!
LANGLEY — We’ve gone final from Day 1 of the 2025 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Included are eight game stories and photos. We hope you enjoy.Our thanks go out to out team of writers (Gary Kingston, Dan Kinvig, Ian French, Gary Ahuja) and to our photographers (Gordon Kalisch, Wilson Wong and Ryan Molag)We will be […]
03.05.25 Day 1 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior boys DOUBLE-A Sweet 16 opening round!
LANGLEY — We’ve gone final from Day 1 of the 2025 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Included are eight game stories and photos. We hope you enjoy.Our thanks go out to out team of writers (Gary Kingston, Dan Kinvig, Ian French, Gary Ahuja) and to our photographers (Gordon Kalisch, Wilson Wong and Ryan Molag)We will be […]
FINAL: 03.05.25 Day 1 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior boys SINGLE-A Sweet 16 opening round!
LANGLEY — We’ve gone final from Day 1 of the 2025 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Included are eight game stories and photos. We hope you enjoy.Our thanks go out to out team of writers (Gary Kingston, Dan Kinvig, Ian French, Gary Ahuja) and to our photographers (Gordon Kalisch, Wilson Wong and Ryan Molag)We will be […]
‘Twas the night before B.C.’s, and our greatest coach ever offers his best winning wisdom!
By HOWARD TSUMURA(Varsity Letters)(Quick links to all four championship draw included below)LANGLEY — On the night before the start of the 79th annual B.C. senior boys basketball tournament, as 64 teams spread out over four tiers take their championship dreams to bed for one more sleep, we thought we’d go straight to the source for […]
Raj Bagry: 40 years ago he hit first-ever three-pointer at BC Provincials! Now, at 57, he reflects on the cradle of coaches who saved him at Aldergrove Sec!
By HOWARD TSUMURAVarsity Letters(Today we finish our short series celebrating the 40th anniversary of the three-point shot in B.C. boys high school basketball)LANGLEY — Ever wonder how important it can ultimately be to save score sheets from high school basketball games?As I began my research on three-point shooting in B.C. boys high school basketball for […]
Happy 40th Birthday to the BC Boys High School Three-Pointer! Born in 1984-85, we trace its origins from near-total anonymity to its place as the game’s signature shot!
By HOWARD TSUMURA(Varsity Letters)(The first of a two-part series which concludes Tuesday, March 4)LANGLEY — In the first week of the new year, I took out my notepad and my voice recorder and I started to interview a lot of the acquaintances I have made over what has been a lifetime spent within our province’s […]
Fourth-quarter flurry once again turns the tide, Seaquam repeats as B.C. Quad-A champions as Toor’s three-point parade and Tait’s MVP ways carry the day against Nohr and Brookswood Bobcats!
LANGLEY — If you dissect an entire high school basketball season into its thousands upon thousands of shiny 10-minute quarters, there will always be one above all others that is worth its weight in gold.It is, of course, the one that follows every other quarter that comes before it.And because it arrives, full of mystery […]
SMUS Blue Jags turn tables on the Myth of Sisyphus! After two years of heartbreak, MVP Avery Geddes helps push rock to top of the hill in B.C. Double-A title win over Holy Cross!
B.C. CHAMPIONSHIPSDOUBLE-ANO. 2 SMUS 62 NO . 1 HOLY CROSS 54By HOWARD TSUMURA (Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — They didn’t just borrow a page from the mythical tales of Sisyphus.No.In fact at times over their prior two seasons, it almost felt like the senior girls basketball team from Victoria’s St. Michaels University School was gathering the kind […]