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Fleetwood Park's Karan Sran dishes the ball as book-end Gators' defenders David Kim (left) and Joshua-Owen Merriott converge on Saturday at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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Fleetwood Park, Walnut Grove fans brings the emotion (and volume) back to our game… Dragons top Gators in a classic Sweet 16 clash as BC juniors close out Day One!!

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LANGLEY — They abided by the 50 per cent capacity rules on the opening day of the B.C. junior boys basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre.Yet based on the passion, emotion and flat-out volume brought to proceedings by the cheering sections for the final game of the night, supporters for Surrey’s Fleetwood Park Dragons […]

Burnaby South's Lordrikk Gutierrez (centre) looks to gain some separation in the open floor from Tamanawis Wildcats Mintu Chahal (left) and Gursewak Mann on Saturday at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved.
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B.C. Junior Sweet 16: Burnaby South’s Redemption Season moves to Elite 8 after Lordrikk-powered Rebels rally to top Tamanawis!

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LANGLEY — They call it their Redemption Season.Ever since a Grade 8 campaign back in 2018-19 fell well short of their expectations, the Class of 2024 boys basketball team from Burnaby South Secondary has been out to prove a point to both themselves and the rest of the province.And on Saturday, on a perilous opening […]

Damon Bains of SMUS tries to slow the progress of Claremont's Chris Greengoe during Sweet 16 action Saturday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Junior Boys hoop championships: Follow our reports tonight from the round of Sweet 16!

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LANGLEY — Here is the draw for the Sweet 16 portion of the B.C. junior boys basketball championships, set to tip off at 4 p.m.Check back on this posting throughout the evening for game-by-game reports which are bing posted below the draw:TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A (Centre Court)4 p.m. — SMUS (Van Isle-4) vs. Claremont (Van […]

Handsworth's Ashton Bain looks for a cutter while defended by Riley Santa Juana of St. Patrick's during opening-round play Saturday at the 52nd annual B.C. junior boys basketball championships at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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Day 1 B.C. Junior Boys championships: Keeping pace with Sudden Saturday’s 32-game schedule!

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LANGLEY — Round one of Day 1 of the 32-team B.C. junior boys basketball championships is now complete at the Langley Events Centre.We’ve started a new posting to cover the evening card’s Sweet 16 games. You can find it in the lead spot at VarsityLetters.caHere is how that round shapes up based on the 16 […]

By whatever new name B.C.'s high school football championships come to be known by, the emotion of its players will remain the same. In what is now the final Subway Bowl season on record, G.W. Graham's Theo Smith (2) and Colton Mocon found reason to celebrate a championship this past December at B.C. Place Stadium. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Saying ‘good-bye’ to Subway Bowl! After 20 years, B.C.’s high school football championships ready to embrace a new title sponsor!

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VANCOUVER — It had one of the best names ever… you know, one of those names which so quickly became unforgettable, earning a place in our sports vernacular so accepted that we never, ever considered its eventual demise.Yet now, after two decades at the centre of most every conversation about high school football in this […]

Centennial's K.C. Ibekwe turned in a triple-double on Friday in his team's win over previously undefeated Burnaby South, earning a B.C. Quad-A tourney berth in the process. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Behind K.C. Ibekwe triple-double, Centennial punches B.C. 4A tourney berth while handing No. 1 Burnaby South first loss in 28 games!

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BURNABY — In an emotional final scene Friday night, in a sport only high school basketball games are seemingly able to produce, the fans of Coquitlam’s Centennial Centaurs stormed the court in absolute delirium to celebrate their team’s 69-62 upset win of No. 1-ranked, undefeated and defending B.C. champion Burnaby South in the semifinals of […]

G.W. Graham's Brody Janzen (left) and Braeden Macdonald (right), pictured while defending Byrne Creek's McArthur Hilton during the 2021 TBI at the Langley Events Centre last December, returned to their favourite court Thursday and topped Robert Bateman in the East Valley semifinals. The win qualified the 2020 B.C. Triple A champions for the 2022 Big Dance beginning March 9. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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The Grizz find their growl! After a soul-crushing January, Chilliwack’s defending B.C. Triple-A champs find a way to punch their golden tickets to Big Dance ’22!

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LANGLEY — It’s never easy to punch your tickets to the Big Dance, and no one could relate to that any better than the head coach of the defending B.C. Triple A basketball champions from Chilliwack’s G.W. Graham Secondary.“All we wanted to do was to get back to the B.C.’s so we could get a […]

With SMUS' Maddy Albert in chase, Syra Toor of Seaquam is captured in mid-flight during B.C. junior girls basketball action between the No. 1-ranked Blue Jags of Victoria and the host and No. 2-ranked Seahawks on Feb. 4, 2022 in North Delta. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. junior girls 2022 championship bracket revealed! SMUS, Seaquam, OKM and South Kam tab the top four seeds for 24-team tourney!

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LANGLEY — When they met in a mid-afternoon game without any fans back on Feb. 4, we called the 60-58 overtime win by No. 1 St. Michaels University School Blue Jags of Victoria, over the host and No. 2-ranked Seaquam Seahawks of North Delta a potential preview of the 2022 B.C. junior girls championship final.So […]

B.C. high school football saw a big gain in player registration but also a steep decline in its coaching numbers. Is this the new normal? (Photo by Blair Shier property of Blair.photo 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Why B.C. high school football’s latest numbers might just be the first barometre of the new normal in our provincial high school sports world!

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VANCOUVER — Set against the unpredictable backdrop of a pandemic now just weeks shy of its second birthday in this province, no one can yet fully define what the so-called new normal in B.C. high school sports is going to look like.B.C. high school football, however, released numbers earlier this week which may well provide […]

Heritage Woods' Kate Mean (left) drives against Sir Winston Churchill's Claire Huang during TBI this past December at the Langley Events Centre. The same two teams meet in the opening round of the B.C. Quad-A championships March 2 back at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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Follow the B.C. Girls Basketball road map through March Madness: We’ve got the 2A, 3A and 4A tourney draw here!

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LANGLEY — The Langley Events Centre will play host to the three largest tiers of B.C. girls high school basketball championships beginning March 2.Love to study the draws?Planning each of your four days at the LEC?Keep coming back for all three provincials draws in one place!QUAD ATRIPLE ADOUBLE AIf you’re reading this story or viewing […]