LANGLEY — There has been some big-time shuffling following the pre-season junior boys rankings released at the end of November. Surrey’s Tamanawis Wildcats and Semiahmoo Thunderbirds, as well as the Prince George Polars jump in from nowhere to the Top 10.Here’s the complete look:1 Vancouver College Fighting Irish (VSS) (LW-1)2 West Vancouver Highlanders (VSS) (3)3 […]
LANGLEY — One of them took the step of hiring a personal trainer to keep on getting better.The other finally decided to listen to his mom and make healthier eating choices.Taken as a whole, Jimmy Zaborniak and Karan Aujla have left no stone unturned in their quest to lead the Burnaby South Rebels back to […]
LANGLEY — Come Monday, he will get back to demanding the very best from his players under the crucible of what is a Burnaby South senior boys basketball practice.But on Saturday night, under the bright lights at centre court of the Langley Sports Centre, Rebels’ head coach Mike Bell couldn’t help but call his players […]
LANGLEY — OK, so what the secret?How in the heck do you beat the Burnaby South Rebels?Or is trying to get past B.C.’s No. 1-ranked AAAA boys basketball team simply an impossible task?“I think you have to be near perfect,” said Quyen Ly, the head coach at Vancouver’s Sir Winston Churchill Secondary after his Quad-A […]
LANGLEY — Darko Kulic talks so much about his King George Dragons as being the “little AA team” that always hard plays to the end regardless of the score,” that maybe you think it’s nothing more than hyperbole.Yet break down the score line from his team’s 66-59 win over Surrey’s Fleetwood Park Dragons, and you […]
LANGLEY — The Final Four is now set at the 2021 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.In the 6:45 p.m. game, Fleetwood Park of Surrey will face King George of Vancouver in the all-to-rare Clash of the Dragons.At 8:15 p.m., super-power Burnaby South faces Vancouver’s Sir Winston Churchill.The two winners will square off in Saturday’s 8:30 p.m. final.Here’s […]
That’s a wrap on Day 2 of the 2021 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.We’ve got reports and photos from all eight games below, but first, here’s a look at Friday morning quarterfinals, all at Centre Court:TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A12:15 p.m. — Burnaby South vs. ClaremontQUADRANT B1:45 p.m. — Sir Winston Churchill vs. Abbotsford BOTTOM HALF DRAWQUADRANT C10:30 a.m. […]
Welcome to Day 1 of the 2021 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.This is our final edition with wrap-ups on all four games played tonight at the Langley Events Centre including Byrne Creek’s OT win over GW Graham. It’s all below. First, tomorrow’s draw.TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A6:15 p.m. — Burnaby South vs. Byrne Creek (centre court)8 p.m. — […]
LANGLEY — The 10th annual Tsumura Basketball 20-team boys Invitational is set to tip off Wednesday, and it’s the start of four exciting days of hoops at the Langley Events Centre.We are once again publishing the tournament draw as a key cancellation has resulted in a couple of different match-ups over the first few days […]
LANGLEY — The B.C. junior boys preseason basketball rankings, released Tuesday morning by the Junior Boys Provincial Committee, reflect the strength of programs concentrated through the geographic regions of the Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley and southern Vancouver Island regions.1 Vancouver College Fighting Irish (VSS)2 Oak Bay Bays (Victoria) (VI)3 West Vancouver Highlanders (VSS)4 Walnut Grove […]
