LANGLEY — With the arrival of zone playoffs, the best part of the B.C. high senior school boys soccer schedule is just now kicking off.To celebrate that, we’ve got the latest AAA rankings which show extensive movement outside of the top five, especially with Surrey schools Fleetwood Park, Princess Margaret and Elgin Park all moving […]
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B.C. High School Football Weekend Survival Guide 10.25.21 edition: AAA & AA’s top teams tip hands to November’s parity-filled Subway Bowl run!
LANGLEY — We’re back with another edition of Varsity Letters’ B.C. High School Football Weekend Survival Guide.After this week, we’re down to our final weekend of play before the start of Subway Bowl playoffs.We’ve got rankings, this week’s upcoming games and last week’s scores, the latter two arranged by tier and conference.RANKINGSVARSITY LETTERS BIG 5TRIPLE […]
A Sunday Snapshot: Why this photo of Notre Dame Jugglers’ coach George Oswald, on his 75th birthday, freezes a perfect moment in time!
VANCOUVER — Over the course of my career as a chronicler and a story-teller, I have come to appreciate that sometimes we are met by those moments when seemingly disparate elements quite suddenly become so harmonious that all we need to do is collectively close our eyes, take a deep breath and smile.On Friday night, […]
B.C. High School Football Report 10.23.21 edition: Our Saturday chronicles examine wins by Argyle, Holy Cross and Sardis!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Varsity Letters’ Saturday night B.C. High School Football Report.It’s an abbreviated schedule with three games.Thanks to photographer Blair Shier for venturing out into the elements to provide out readers with great realism from the action.AA COASTALARGYLE 15 at WEST VANCOUVER 7WEST VANCOUVER — Wise and sensible scheming kept the ball on […]
Varsity Letters’ 10.22.21 B.C. High School Football Report, Friday Night Lights early edition!
Welcome to another edition of the B.C. High School Football Report for Oct. 22.Please continue to check back on this posting throughout the evening for updates from games around our province.AAA WESTNEW WESTMINSTER 9 at NO. 2 NOTRE DAME 40VANCOUVER — It took what seems like forever, yet for the crowd on hand to christen […]
Rich Goulet Celebration: Still plenty of available tickets to honour late B.C. high school coaching great on Nov. 7 in Pitt Meadows!
PITT MEADOWS — If you are still interested in attending next month’s ‘Celebrating the Wonderful Life of Richard ‘Rich’ Goulet’ event, being held in honour of the late, great B.C. high school basketball coach, there is still plenty of room available.The Nov. 7 gathering for the Pitt Meadows Marauders and St. Thomas More Knights head […]
B.C. senior boys volleyball rankings 10.20.21 edition: South Fraser schools dominate Triple-A’s top end while Eastern Valley schools rules Double-, Single-A polls!
VICTORIA — The weekly B.C. senior boys volleyball rankings welcomes four teams, each making its first appearance of the season in the provincial rankings in a rise from unranked status.In the AA Vancouver Sea-to-Sky zone, Vancouver’s Gladstone Gladiators debut at No. 11.In the AA Vancouver Island zone, the Salt Spring Island Scorpions check in at […]
A golden moment times two as Kelowna Owls girls & boy volleyball win simultaneous, side-by-side double gold at own Best of the West invitational!
KELOWNA — In case you were looking for signs of school spirit coming out of COVID’s lost 2020-21 season, the fans inside the gym as Kelowna Secondary School this past weekend, although limited by health protocols, gave every indication that it’s clearly alive and well.The Best of the West senior boys and girls volleyball tournament, […]
Subway Bowl 2021 can’t find dates with B.C. Place Stadium: As high school football searches for new venue, Grade 12s miss out on ‘Dome experience’ two years running!!
(Note to readers — since it’s original publication we have added to this story)LANGLEY — When the thermometres dip, and the calendars hit November, there has been a singular destination for a generation-plus of high school football players in this province: B.C. Place Stadium for the Subway Bowl playoffs.Yet while B.C. high school football has […]
Carson Graham’s Logan Mellish: Eagles’ senior QB and BCHSFB Player of the Week is “…the blackjack dealer, making sure all of the other guys get the cards”
NORTH VANCOUVER — As the starting quarterback of the Carson Graham Eagles, Logan Mellish puts all of his cards on the table each time he takes command of the huddle.“I love contact,” states the 6-foot-3, 200-pound Mellish, whose selfless, old-school approach to the pivot position has helped position the Eagles as provincial contenders amongst a […]