Sadie Danks of the Argyle Pipers is in full flight down the floor against Natalie McCutcheon and Ari Brown of the Riverside Rapids during Tsumura Basketball Invitational Super 16 championship game action Dec. 13, 2025 at the Langley Event Centre’s Centre Court. (Photo by Ryan Molag property of Langley Events Centre 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2025: Even with its size, Argyle Pipers prove bigger than the sum of its parts in Super 16 title win over Riverside!

LANGLEY — Broken down to its most essential parts, North Vancouver’s Argyle Pipers are a team filled with individual success stories.A 6-foot-5 post who just accomplished in the past four days what it may well have taken her all of last season to accomplish.An irrepressible inside-outside scoring threat, who after copping Most Valuable Player honours […]

The interviewer becomes the interviewee! BC Sports Hub's Anthony Beyrouti interviews your author. (BC Sports Hub)
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Tsumura: Finally, I get to answer the questions! Honoured to be a guest on Interviews with Anthony Beyrouti!

NORTH DELTA — I am used to be the one asking the questions, so what a thrill and an honour to be the one answering them for a change!Thanks to Anthony Beyrouti for including me as part of his Interviews With Anthony series for the B.C. Sports Hub!There are many great interviews included as part […]

Argyle Secondary's Georgia Swant is one of B.C.'s most dynamic players. (Varsity Letters photo by Howard Tsumura)
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Georgia’s on their minds, yet foes still can’t slow the swath of Argyle’s SFU-bound Swant

LANGLEY — Argyle Pipers’ head coach Anthony Beyrouti offered up Willis Read and his dramatic entrance, limping onto the court to join the New York Knicks before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals. Sure, it wasn’t quite the same story line which brought his senior star Georgia Swant onto the court this past Saturday afternoon […]

New Westminster Hyacks' Sarah Forgie (left) dives to the floor to snare a loose ball in front of Walnut's Grove's Jessica Wisotzki during Mainland-Valley girls all-star game Wednesday in Port Coquitlam. (Varsity Letters photo by Howard Tsumura)
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Tsumura’s Take: Why the future of B.C. girls high school hoops is so bright

PORT COQUITLAM — On the last day of the 2016-17 high school basketball season, dire predictions about the state of the girls game in our province seemed to be the last thing on anyone’s mind.A new concept, which pitted age-class competition in an all-star game format between the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland zones on […]