By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersNORTH VANCOUVER — Wonder what one of the best high school basketball teams in the province had planned for in the early morning hours of today, the first Tuesday in February?“Umm, we have wind sprints at 7:10 a.m., tomorrow morning… and it’s on purpose, right?” Anthony Beyrouti, head coach of the Quad-A […]
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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 […]
TBI Girls 2024: Top to bottom, our Super 16 and Select 16 brackets combine to give the Tsumura Basketball Invitational its strongest overall field ever! The best of 4A, 3A, 2A, 1A in one place! Full draws are right here!
LANGLEY — The senior boys draws for the 2024 Tsumura Basketball Invitational was released Wednesday (Oct. 16).Today, it’s time for the release of the girls TBI draws for both the Super 16 and Select 16 events, each set to begin a four-day run Dec. 11 at the Langley Events Centre.This year, we asked for input […]
Seaquam girls end three decades of Big Dance silence! Comeback win over Argyle in last-chance clash sends Seahawks, along with Yale Lions, into B.C. Quad-A championships!
PORT COQUITLAM — They hadn’t punched their tickets to the Big Dance in so long that even the school’s historians were having a hard time trying to figure out when the last time the senior girls basketball team from Seaquam Secondary last qualified for the B.C. championships.One thing was certain, however, as the fourth-quarter clock […]
Five years after its first title, Reynolds Roadrunners again go down to the wire, edging Argyle Pipers in season-ending B.C. AAA Coastal soccer final!
BURNABY — When the Reynolds Roadrunners won the B.C. senior boys AAA soccer championships back in 2016, it marked the program’s first-ever crown and it came on the occasion of the Victoria school’s 50th anniversary.All of which led Roadrunners head coach JJ Atterbury to tell veteran reporter Cleve Dheensaw of the Victoria Times-Colonist afterwards: “I […]
B.C. Boys Coastal AAA Final 4: Reynolds’ Remi Barbot provides the go-go with two goals as Victoria squad tops Surrey’s PR Thunder for AAA title game berth!
BURNABY — Hands down winner for brightest smile on the pitch Friday as the B.C. senior boys high school AAA Coastal soccer championships wrapped up its semifinal matches as a prelude to its championship Saturday here at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex?Take a bow, Remi Bardot.The effervescent Grade 11 winger for Victoria’s Reynolds Roadrunners twice […]
B.C. Boys Coastal AAA Final 4: Argyle coach Darren Rath “…had a feeling” his Pipers were special, now comes a title-game berth after 3-1 win over Rapids!
BURNABY — All through the COVID-cancelled 2020 high school boys soccer season, veteran Argyle Pipers head coach Darren Rath carried around this feeling that all his class of rising senior varsity players needed was a season of play to verify just how special he knew them to be.Friday, on the lofty stage of the semifinal […]
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 […]
FINAL: Varsity Letters’ 10.08.21 B.C. High School Football Report, Friday Night Lights LATE-NITE edition!
LANGLEY — Welcome to another addition of the 2021 Varsity Letters B.C. High School Football Report for the Thanksgiving Day long weekend.Keep checking back on this post throughout the evening as we continue to update games from around the province and remember that the records you see for all of the teams is their conference […]
FINAL: The 09.17.21 B.C. High School Football report Friday Night Lights late-night edition: The football gods bring rain and an ensuing fest of good, old fumble-rooski!!
Welcome to a late version of the early edition of the B.C. high school football report.It was a day for rubber footballs and fumbled snaps, and for foolish reporters stuck over two hours in traffic on Hyw 1 East attempting a quick half-time exit after taking some photos for this posting at the Notre Dame-Kelowna […]