LANGLEY — When Bill Bailey was a senior at Vancouver College back in 1954, old Alumni Gym was just being constructed.
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STA’s Michael Kelly: Best player you’ve never heard of leads Fighting Saints to BC’s
LANGLEY — Let’s start this story off with a question which first requires a preface.
ALL YOU CAN EAT: All four B.C. high school boys basketball draws, plus watch our bracket unveilings
Basketball fans, we started the countdown to the 2017 Telus B.C. senior boys basketball champinships this afternoon with the release of draws at all four tiers.This is your ‘All You Can Eat’ package, complete with the live draw show production with myself and host Chris Kennedy.We have boosted coverage here by adding the complete ‘4-day […]
For Seycove Seahawks, tears of joy flow in B.C. 2A-title win over Vernon
LANGLEY — Sage Stobbart looked lost.The tears were welling up, and while the rest of her Seycove teammates were celebrating the thrill of their lives Saturday at the Langley Events Centre, the Seyhawks’ 6-foot-2 forward stood transfixed, unable to find a shoulder to embrace.
Tweedy’s comeback Supergirls top Abby, cop B.C. title spoils in Battle of Panthers
LANGLEY — She wore Supergirl socks this week during her team’s heart-stopping run at the Telus B.C. girls high school basketball championships.
STA’s Fighting Saints cap dream season for girls basketball at North Van school
LANGLEY — They did not field a girls basketball team at the senior varsity level in 2016-17, but North Vancouver’s St. Thomas Aquinas Fighting Saints still had what could only be described as a dream hoops season.One week after the Fighting Saints won the B.C. Grade 9 title, they stepped up to an even bigger […]
How Happy Howie would construct the BC Boys Quad-A hoops draw
LANGLEY — The draw for the Telus B.C. senior boys basketball championships will be made Sunday (3:30 p.m.) via livestream (tfsetv.com) from the Langley Events Centre.In the spirit of it all, I present the Quad-A draw, as if I had been summoned the power to create the 16-team bracket.As I always say, it’s never perfect, […]
Paint this one close! Seyhawks earn B.C. Double-A finals berth return by going inside
LANGLEY — It’s one thing to believe in your ability to hit long-range jump shots.It’s another to rest on it in the highest stakes game of your season.
Vernon Panthers: Small bench, big ambition en route to berth in BC 2A final
LANGLEY — Vernon Secondary is a lot larger than the fictional Hickory High depicted in the definitive hoops-underdog movie Hoosiers.
Tweedy Panthers top Thunder in Surrey derby, Sidhu carries team into B.C. title tilt
LANGLEY — Maryn Budiman and the rest of the seniors with Surrey’s Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers have one more game remaining in their high school basketball careers.