With Lions at his feet, George Elliot star Roan McCarthy goes in from a lay-up Friday in the B.C. 2A quarterfinals at the LEC. (Photo by Vancouver Sports Pictures 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION – DOUBLE-A BOYS DAY 2: Charles Hays vs. Brentwood, King George vs. Lambrick in Friday’s Final Four!

LANGLEY — We’ve gone final here at Day 2 of the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Here’s your game reports!DOUBLE-ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANo. 1 Charles Hays 91 No. 9 St. Thomas Aquinas 79 By Gary Kingston (special to Varsity Letters) LANGLEY — Heart of a champion. It’s a cliche to be sure, but sometimes you just […]

Duchess Park's Jackson Kuc (23) attempts to slow Pitt Meadows' Man Ostovari during B.C. Triple A quarterfinal clash Thursday at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION – TRIPLE-A BOYS DAY 2: As easy as 1-2-3-4! Tier’s top four seeds ready for a Friday Final 4 Battle Royale!

LANGLEY — We’ve gone final here on Day 2 of the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Here’s your game reports!ALL STORIES BY Howard TsumuraTRIPLE-ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANo. 1 Duchess Park 84 No. 9 Pitt Meadows 68LANGLEY — One full year later, the Duchess Park Condors get to face their demons head on.In the 2019 B.C. […]

Vancouver College's Jacob Holt blocks a shot attempt by Abbotsford's Jesse Davis in a Thursday B.C. Quad A quarterfinal Thursday at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION – QUAD-A BOYS DAY 2: Burnaby South vs. Vancouver College; Handsworth vs. Kelowna make up a dandy Friday Final Four!

LANGLEY — We’ve gone final for Day 2 of the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Here’s your game reports!QUAD-ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANo. 1 Burnaby South 89 No. 8 Oak Bay 49LANGLEY — Justin Sunga was just happy to help history repeat itself Thursday night at the Langley Events Centre.Two seasons ago, he was a ninth […]

Juan Navarro of Brentwood College looks to enter the ball during opening round win over Clarence Fulton. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION Double-A boys Day 1: Varsity Letters gives you live game day reports and photos of all eight opening-round games!

LANGLEY — Welcome to the opening day of play here at the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Please continue to check back on this posting throughout the day for updates as we wind our way through the eight-game sudden elimination Sweet 16 bracket.DOUBLE  A TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANO. 1 CHARLES HAYS 71 NO. 16 SAMUEL ROBERTSON […]

Duchess Park's Aidan Lewis measure a shot on Wednesday in the opening round of the B.C. championships at the LEC. (Photo by Dan Kinvig property of University of the Fraser Valley athletics 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION Triple-A boys Day 1: Varsity Letters gives you live game day reports and photos of all eight opening-round games!

LANGLEY — Welcome to the opening day of play here at the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Please continue to check back on this posting throughout the day for updates as we wind our way through the eight-game sudden elimination Sweet 16 bracket.QUADRANT ANO. 1 DUCHESS PARK 83, NO. 16 MARK ISFELD 60By Dan Kinvig […]

Burnaby South's Sasha Vujisic (left) battles for a loose ball with Mt. Baker's Jeff Lalach during opening round action at the 2020 B.C. Quad-A tournament at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved) (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION Quad-A boys Day 1: Varsity Letters gives you live game day reports and photos of all eight opening-round games!

ALL STORIES BY HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — Welcome to the opening day of play here at the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships.Please continue to check back on this posting throughout the day for updates as we wind our way through the eight-game sudden elimination Sweet 16 bracket.

B.C. high school boys basketball historian Ken Winslade, whose carefully catalogued archives make up the majority of the BCHSBBA's 75th anniversary hoops museum at the Langley Events Centre, poses in front of the team photo of his own high school team, New Westminster's 1956 B.C. champion Lester Pearson Mikes. (Photo by Gary Ahuja property of Langley Events Centre 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. boys high school basketball museum opens at LEC! Photos, memorabilia celebrate 75 years of provincial champions

LANGLEY — Fans making the rounds at the Langley Event Centre beginning Wednesday at the B.C. Boys High School Basketball Championships will get a chance to see the province’s best teams in action at four different tiers of competition.Yet in this, the Diamond Anniversary of the B.C.’s most tradition-laden and documented provincial championship tournament, there […]

Twenty years after leading SMUS to the B.C. AAA title, Canadian sports icon Steve Nash holds court once again, this time with 24 others on the list of the 25 greatest players in the B.C. championship tournament history. (Photos property of B.C High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Wow, the ultimate GOAT list! The B.C. Boys Championship Tournament’s 25 Greatest High School Basketball Players of All Time!

LANGLEY — Welcome to the list to top all lists in the world of B.C. boys high school basketball. With the 75th birthday of the heralded classic set to tip off Wednesday, a special committee struck by the B.C. High School Boys Basketball Association to celebrate its diamond anniversary has produced its list of the B.C. […]

G.W. Graham's Jude Hall (centre) experiences the hands-on defence of MEI's Jayden Cousins (left) during East Valley 3A zone final last month at the LEC. Also on the scene for MEI is Patrick Warrell. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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G.W. Graham ready to bear down! After four Final Fours and four Elite 8’s, Chilliwack’s Grizz set sights on four wins and a B.C. AAA title

LANGLEY — A dozen games does not a season make, yet in the case of Chilliwack’s G.W. Graham Grizzlies (23-9), everything about its most recent 12 games of this season seem a portent to their week ahead as one of the favourites at the B.C. senior boys Triple A basketball championships.The Grizzlies have been one […]

Abbotsford's Karn Brar (right) is guarded by Yale's Reid Lowen during the East Valley Quad-A zone championship game Feb. 23 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Boys Championships 2020: Who’s in the toughest quadrant across all four tiers? It’s Abby-Terry Fox, Van College-Fleetwood Park

LANGLEY — The toughest overall quadrant across all four tiers of competition at the 2020 B.C. senior boys basketball championships belongs to a quartet of teams who have been provincially ranked or owned honourable mention status for the entire season.