VANCOUVER — With defence as its bellwether, the host Notre Dame Jugglers took their best opportunities and turned them into touchdowns on Saturday, finding a way to extend an incredible season which now reaches the Subway Bowl Coastal AAA semifinals this coming Saturday at B.C. Place Stadium.“Playoff football is always a lot different and today […]
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Vernon Panthers roar back from early deficit to topple Duchess Park Condors in Subway Bowl AA North/Interior semifinal clash!
(Note, Triple A game reports will not be published until later on this evening due to prior broadcast commitments)The Vernon Panthers advanced to what would normally have been the team’s fifth straight B.C. high school Subway Bowl B.C. AA semifinal.And although those plans were scuttled earlier this week after a decision to play a regional […]
Double-A boys high school soccer championship draws are here: Nov. 22, 23 kick-offs for Coastal and North/Interior titles
LANGLEY — B.C.’s best senior boys high school soccer teams will begin a three-day finale starting Monday to determine the best within its provincial Double-A tier, except, like the Subway Bowl football model unveiled earlier this week, teams will be competing for two separate banners.B.C. School Sports released the Double-A draw late Friday afternoon, one […]
Longtime Charles Tupper hoops coach Jeff Gourley takes leave of his Tigers in 2021-22: In a changing world, here’s his heartfelt good-bye!
(Jeff Gourley has given heart and soul to breathe life and community into the East Vancouver basketball world. On Thursday, he announced his reasons for stepping away this season from the boys program at Sir Charles Tupper where the Tigers have been his extended family for most the last quarter century… the team, to be […]
B.C. Boys High School Volleyball rankings 11.18.21 edition: No. 1’s all hold court, big movers are AAA Sa-Hali Sabres, and AA Revelstoke Avalanche!
VICTORIA —Lots of jockeying in the B.C. boys AAA and AA senior volleyball rankings this week, but the rise of Kamloop’s AAA Sa-Hali Sabres from unranked to No. 10 in the span of one week is seismic.AA’s Revelstoke Avalanche moved from No. 15 to No. 9.Single-A remained unchanged.Here’s a look at the latest polls from […]
Where’d they come from? After three straight winless league seasons, Centennial Centaurs loving late-November Subway Bowl football!
COQUITLAM — If there was an award for Most Improved Team in B.C. high school football each season, 2021’s would belong to the Centennial Centaurs.After all, when you’re coming out of the cancelled 2020 season following three straight 0-7 conference campaigns, advancing to the final eight with the chance to play a meaningful football game […]
No B.C. champions will be crowned at Subway Bowl 2021! State of emergency means high school football will stage three ‘regional’ championships!
(NOTE — Check back throughout the course of the evening for updates on this story)LANGLEY — For a second straight season, B.C. high school football teams have been denied the opportunity to compete for provincial championships.On the heels of the provincial state of emergency now in effect, B.C. School Sports, the governing body for high […]
B.C. girls high school volleyball rankings 11.17.21 edition: Mt. Boucherie gains elevation, LFA’s Angels new AAA No. 1!
LANGLEY — Here are the weekly B.C. Top 10 rankings for all four tiers from B.C. School Sports:QUAD-A1 South Delta Sun Devils (LW-1)2 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (2)3 Nanaimo District Islanders (3)4 Kelowna Owls (4)5 Mt. Boucherie Bears (Kelowna) (8)6 Handsworth Royals (North Vancouver) (6)7 Claremont Spartans (Victoria) (7)8 Okanagan Mission Huskies (5)9 Dover Bay […]
It’s a boys soccer renaissance at Van Tech! Youthful former grad Smith, 22, and her inspiring Talismen qualify for B.C. AAA tourney!
VANCOUVER — One of the most revealing traits which has surfaced some two-plus months into the B.C. high school sports re-start is just how big a factor student-athlete camaraderie was during the cancelled 2020-21 season.It’s an intangible topic to be sure, but teams which stayed together as much as the health protocols would allow and, […]
Attention B.C. senior girls basketball coaches! We’re looking for one team to complete our 20-team field at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational!
LANGLEY — Greetings B.C. high school senior girls basketball head coaches!We are short one team for our 10th annual Tsumura Basketball Invitational tournament set to run Dec. 15-18 at the home of the B.C. championships: The Langley Events Centre.I have been empowered by the tournament committee of the TBI to accept the names of any […]