LANGLEY — Topsy-turvy times on the eve of the provincial championships.What better way to get set for the finale to a challenging but exciting re-start in 2021-22 for B.C. boys high school basketball.There are new No. 1’s at Quad-A and Double-A, and perhaps the most overall shifting we seen all season.Here’s the complete look for […]
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B.C.’s best girls senior varsity hoop talent! On eve of Championship Week, BCSSGBA unveils its Top 5’s for 2021-22 at 4A, 3A, 2A and 1A!
LANGLEY — After a one-year hiatus, it’s once again time to tip our collective hoop hat to all of talented players that make the B.C. girls high school basketball world such an exciting one to follow.This season, the B.C. Secondary Schools Girls Basketball Association is presenting its Top 5 players in each of the four […]
VC’s Fighting Irish face Burnaby South for B.C. junior boys crown on Tuesday! Rival head coaches may be buddies, but usual hoops phone chatter now likely put on hold!
LANGLEY — A pair of B.C. junior boys basketball coaches who discovered a while back how much they love to engage each other in deep discussion of the game have been making a habit of chatting over the phone a few nights each week during the season.That those two happen to be Vancouver College Fighting […]
No stage fright for K.C. Ibekwe! Centennial’s big man revels in the cheers and jeers as his 43 points vs. Fox lift Centaurs to Fraser North Quad-A title!
LANGLEY — K.C. Ibekwe heard it from the crowd Sunday night at the Langley Events Centre.From one side of the Centre Court complex, the Centennial Centaurs’ 6-foot-10 centre lined up to shoot free throws while supporters of the arch-rival Terry Fox Ravens broke into unrepentant chants of ‘Over-rated’.Yet when the unflappable Ibekwe was able to […]
Dilveer ditches his doldrums! Randhawa comes alive in fourth as Abby Panthers top Walnut Grove Gators for Eastern Valley Quad-A title spoils!
LANGLEY — Whatever basketball’s version of the all-points-bulletin is, Abbotsford Panthers’ head coach Brent Ciochetti was wishing he could have put one out Sunday evening at the Langley Events Centre for his star Grade 11 forward Dilveer Randhawa.In its tense and spirited clash with Langley’s Walnut Grove Gators for the Eastern Valley Quad-A championship title, […]
This linebacker tackles hoops just fine! G.W. Graham post Braeden MacDonald scores 23 points, earns MVP nod as Grizz top MEI’s Eagles for 3A Eastern Valley title!
LANGLEY — Through the flooding and through the pandemic, Braeden MacDonald has persevered with a smile on his face.On Sunday, the dream season for G.W. Graham’s 6-foot-4, 200-pound Grade 11 linebacker/tight end/power post just kept on getting better.MacDonald, who in December helped the Grizzlies win a Subway Bowl senior varsity Quad-A football title at B.C. […]
B.C. Jr. Boys Elite 8: Burnaby South shows plenty of shine as roster’s depth steps up to earn win over West Van and berth in Monday’s Final Four!
LANGLEY — What’s a sure-fire way to get Burnaby South junior boys basketball coach Rupi Dahia to shrug his shoulder?Simple: Ask him who the stars of his team are.“That’s the key thing about this team… we don’t really have that ‘best’ player,” Dahia confessed Sunday after his No. 3-seeded Rebels made every key shot they […]
B.C. Jr. Boys Elite 8: St. Pat’s Jovin Sunner shines bright as defending champ Celtics rally past Fleetwood Park Dragons for Final Four berth!
LANGLEY — The St. Patrick’s Celtics are playing their best basketball of the season at precisely the right time.Ask head coach John Boateng about it, and he’ll tell you that it’s a case of Sunner rather than later.Oh, that’s as in Jovin Sunner, the hard-luck 6-foot-3 Grade 10 forward who did a little bit of […]
B.C. Jr. Boys Elite 8: Van College’s 29-0 Fighting Irish top SMUS as team defence continues to be its baromtre!
LANGLEY — The Vancouver College Fighting Irish are taking care of one thing first and foremost, and it’s served them well as B.C.’s No. 1-ranked team heads into the semifinals of the provincial junior boys basketball championship semifinals on Tuesday.“I think we’re continuing to play well, and the focus is getting stops on defence,” said […]
B.C. Jr. Boys Elite 8: Oak Bay tops Brookswood, Bays’ coach David Thompson loves his ‘basketball junkies’!
LANGLEY — David Thompson loves the way his players love the game.The head coach of the Vancouver Island champion Oak Bay Bays got yet another commanding performance from his so-called ‘basketball junkies’ on Sunday morning, as the No. 5-seeded Victoria squad used a commanding third-quarter surge to hand Langley’s No. 20-seeded Brookswood Bobcats a 58-49 […]