LANGLEY — It’s the kind of highlight that in a film-room session just seems to jump off the screen and get your heart pumping.Last Saturday, in its Subway Bowl B.C. Double A semifinal clash against Chilliwack’s G.W. Graham Grizzlies, Langley running back Kai Thomas took a hand-off, made the first wave of tacklers miss, then […]
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Third time’s a golden charm for Panorama Ridge! Two years of finals heartbreak ends with B.C. AAA boys soccer win over Matheson Mustangs
BURNABY — Jeevan Dhaliwal didn’t know the precise history his Panorama Ridge Thunder were attempting to exorcise when the B.C. senior boys Triple-A soccer season kicked off back in September.All he knew was that after losing in back-to-back B.C. championship final matches over his first two years with the Surrey soccer powerhouse, he wasn’t about […]
Ravens crush their learning curve: Fast-rising Terry Fox girls hoops squad starts Quad-A season at No. 6, ready to embrace new challenges
ABBOTSFORD — The 35-0 record along with the B.C. junior girls title they carried off centre court last March at the Langley Events Centre represented a perfect first step into the world high school basketball for Port Coquitlam’s Terry Fox Ravens.Step two — a move up to the senior varsity ranks a year ahead of […]
Subway Bowl 2019 AAA Final Four: Playing at another level, VC’s Fighting Irish look unstoppable in win over STM Knights
VANCOUVER — Vancouver College’s Daesaun Johnson rushed for three first-half touchdowns, and an Irish defence which has been near impenetrable the past two months simply lived up to form, seemingly impervious to the rising stakes and elevated atmosphere that come with the semifinal round of the Subway Bowl Triple-A playoffs.
Subway Bowl 2019 AAA Final Four: Tweedsmuir’s Panthers snap 14-year B.C. title game drought with win over Notre Dame Jugglers
VANCOUVER — Not too soon after they launched their football program at Lord Tweedsmuir back in 2004, Surrey’s Panthers made a heady ascent to the following season’s Subway Bowl B.C. Double-A championship final.The result may have been a 33-8 loss to the powerhouse Windsor Dukes of North Vancouver all those years ago, but the expansion […]
Subway Bowl 2019 AA Final Four: Fourth-quarter rally not too steep for Langley as Saints top GWG Grizzlies to march into first-ever B.C. final
VANCOUVER — It was a game between two running teams that started out like the script predicted.But both the No. 4 Langley Saints and Chilliwack’s No. 3 G.W. Graham Grizzlies caught scent of a different path to the end zone over the second half of its Subway Bowl AA semifinals and in the end it […]
Subway Bowl 2019 AA Final Four: MVP Zack Smith a game-changer on offence & defence as No. 1 Vernon tops No. 2 Ballenas
VANCOUVER — It’s a tribute to the heart and the immense capabilities of Parksville’s No. 2 Ballenas Whalers that the No. 1-ranked, defending B.C. champion Vernon Panthers finally looked to have been solved over much of the opening half of a Subway Bowl AA semifinal played Saturday afternoon at B.C. Place Stadium.Play after play, series […]
Subway Bowl Grade 8 final: Knights’ MVP Custodio carries STM to record 14th Quadra Cup title
VANCOUVER — The St. Thomas More Knights spent almost all of Saturday’s Subway Bowl Grade 8 championship final showing how consistently adept they were at breaking big scoring plays at the most opportune moments.Burnaby’s Knights had opened the contest by scoring its first three touchdowns from 51, 87 and 62 yards, and two of those […]
Surrey’s soccer gods are smiling! Panorama Ridge and L.A.Matheson will battle Saturday in a city derby for B.C. boys AAA title!
BURNABY — The Surrey soccer gods are smiling bright tonight.For the first time in the history of the B.C. senior boys Triple A soccer championships, two Surrey schools will clash for the title Saturday morning (11:15 a.m.) at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex following narrow victories during Friday’s semifinal round.Surrey’s Panorama Ridge Thunder, B.C.’s No. 1-ranked […]
B.C. senior girls basketball preseason Top 10 rankings: Addition of Quad-A ushers in a new era of four-tiered hoops
LANGLEY — It’s whole new world for B.C. senior girls high school basketball when the 2019-20 season tips off around the province on Monday.While the cream of this province’s annual crop of top players and teams will eventually rise to the surface in time for March Madness, the paths so many will follow will be […]