Terry Fox Ravens' head senior boys soccer coach John Murphy (right) has his team thick in the midst of the provincial AAA elite. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Boys High School Soccer 10.09.19: Terry Fox’s surging Ravens climb to No. 5 as AAA Top 10 remains wide open

Port Coquitlam’s Terry Fox Ravens continue to move the needle forward coming out of the Fraser North.Monday’s 1-1 win over classic rival Centennial pushed the Ravens record to 3-1 and made them the week’s big climber.League mate Dr. Charles Best also climbed back into the upper tier of the Top 10 following its 1-0 win […]

Ryan Brown, serving during the recent UBC Invitational, is one of Earl Marriott's band of volleyball brothers. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Earl Marriott boys volleyball: No. 1-ranked, defending AAA champion Mariners small in numbers, but huge in old-school heart

SURREY — If you were around the B.C. high school sports scene before the turn over the century, you saw perhaps the tail-end of what coaches these days lovingly refer to as “the old school way.”The times were certainly more innocent than they are today in terms of training, practicing and playing opportunities.Coaches like Dale […]

Abbotsford will look to bounce back from last week's loss at Lord Tweedsmuir when the Panthers travel to face Eastern Conference co-leader St. Thomas More on Friday at Burnaby Lakes. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Varsity Letters 10.07.19 BC High School Football Big 5: STM’s Knights scrap their way into rankings, set to host Abby on Friday

LANGLEY — Welcome to Week 6 of the 2019 B.C. high school football season.St. Thomas More, at one stage of the early season forced to forfeit a non-conference rivalry game against Vancouver College due to a rash of injuries, are sitting at 3-0 in the Eastern Conference, deadlocked with North Delta’s Seaquam Seahawks.While the heavyweights […]

South Delta quarterback Ben McDonald threw three TD passes and rushed for another in his No. 2-ranked team's win over Handsworth. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Blair.photo)
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FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ 10.05.19 Saturday Night B.C. High School football report

Saturday night’s edition of the Varsity Letters’ B.C. High School football report is now complete.WESTERN CONFERENCEHANDSWORTH 6 at No. 2 SOUTH DELTA 30TSAWWASSEN — The South Delta Sun Devils may have scored their final 22 points in unanswered fashion Saturday to remain a perfect 5-0 on the season.Yet it was one of those days when […]

Lord Tweedsmuir running back Haydn Stomperud (with ball) tries to burst past the Abby Panthers defence on Friday in Cloverdale. On hand to help block is fellow running back Noah Anderson. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ Friday Night Lights 10.04.19 B.C. High School Football Report

Welcome to the early edition of Varsity Letter’s Friday Night Lights B.C. High School Football Report for Oct. 4.Please continue to check back on this posting throughout the evening as we update games from around the province.FRIDAYTRIPLE AWESTERN CONFERNECENOTRE DAME 0 at MT. DOUGLAS 34VICTORIA — Host Mt. Douglas prepped for a fast start, and […]

Issiah Sahib (left) of the Sands Scorpions had a step on the competition all afternoon at Mackie Park, scoring twice in the second half as his team toppled the crosstown North Delta Huskies 5-2. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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North Delta’s soccer derby: Sands topples N.D. Huskies 5-2, Scorpions off to hot start 10 years after its last B.C. championship title

NORTH DELTA — It’s much too premature to start predicting a championship one full decade after it won the first school title in its school’s history.

Surrey's Panorama Ridge Thunder are back on top of the B.C. senior boys AAA soccer rankings. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Boys Soccer Top 10 rankings 10.03.19: Surrey’s Panorama Ridge Thunder survive topsy-turvy week to move into No. 1 spot

Welcome to the first-in-season edition of the B.C. senior boys AAA soccer Top 10.This past week’s results did a lot to shift the form of the preseason chart. The scores that most impacted?On the North Shore, former No. 2 Argyle lost to Carson Graham, who in turn lost to new No. 9 Handsworth.On Vancouver Island, […]

Senior hitter Jesse Lee and the rest of Port Coquitlam's Riverside Rapids maintained their spot in the B.C. AAA Top 10 rankings. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. boys volleyball rankings 10.02.19: Eric Hamber, Langley Fundamental make big climbs but Marriott and MEI still atop the tiers

LANGLEY — The defending B.C. AAA champion Earl Marriott Mariners of Surrey retained the top spot at the province’s largest tier after suffering its only loss of the season thus far, in the championship final of the UBC Invitational last Saturday to Edmonton’s Harry Ainlay Titans. Meanwhile, Vancouver’s Eric Hamber Griffins defeated Abbotsford’s AA No. […]

Vancouver's Little Flower Academy Angels, pictured last month at the UBC Mizuno Invitational, hold firm at No. 2 in the B.C. Triple A rankings this week. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Girls Top 10 Volleyball Rankings 10.02.19: Dover Bay, Notre Dame and Mt. Sentinel the big movers, No. 1’s hold ground

LANGLEY — Here are the latest B.C. senior girls Top 10 volleyball rankings:*At Quad A, Nanaimo’s Dover Bay Dolphins staked a claim to Top 10 territory coming off a Final Four showing and eventual silver-medal finish at the Vancouver Island University Mariners invitational. No. 6 Claremont held firm with a win over the Dolphins.*At Double […]

MEI Eagles' Hunter Arulpragasam (left) and Tag Neufeld rise for a block against Lake Country's George Elliott Coyotes last Friday during the UBC Invitational at War Memorial Gym. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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MEI boys volleyball: Multi-sport players, multi-experienced coach Olfert meld to lift Eagles into B.C. AA title contention

ABBOTSFORD — The 2019 edition of the MEI Eagles senior boys volleyball team has its fair share of standouts, and none of that is a surprise for the team which last week opened at No. 1 in the first B.C. Double A rankings of the new season.Senior Tyson Ardell spent the summer with Team B.C. […]