His gold medal moment! After a quarter century of leading Riverside senior girls basketball and on and off the court, Paul Langford, 66, snipped the final stitch at the Langley Event Centre's Centre Court, claiming the spoils of victory. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Riverside 70 Walnut Grove 52: How looking past the obvious and thinking outside the coaching box helped Sussex & Rapids beat Pemberton & Gators for the 2023 B.C. girls Quad-A hoops title!

LANGLEY — The hardest thing to do this season in the B.C. girls high school basketball world was to avoid concentrating on the obvious.And as so many coaches around this province would ultimately discover, paying too much defensive attention to perhaps the greatest scorer to ever grace our midst was ultimately not the answer to […]

Commanding the court, Riverside's Grade 11 point guard Avery Sussex contends with Burnaby Central's Vobia Salome during Day 3 Final Four action at the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Just call her Little Magic! Like LA Lakers famed 1980 Finals switch, Riverside point guard Sussex posts up, turns tide as Rapids top Burnaby Central for finals date with Gators!

LANGLEY — If you’ve watched Riverside Rapids’ point guard Avery Sussex for any amount of time over her senior varsity basketball career, you can’t help but be struck by the level of versatility and adaptability she brings to the fore as her team’s feisty point guard.And at no time over her career has that versatility been […]

Brookswood's Emma Lenhoff (left) digs in on defence against Yale's Aysia Kumar in the B.C. junior girls semifinals at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Mark Steffens property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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JUNIOR: It’s Oak Bay and Brookswood on Saturday in the finals of the 2023 B.C. junior girls basketball championships!

BY GARY AHUJA (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — Two teams who won their last Junior Girls provincial championships a year apart are now set to play for the big prize on Saturday afternoon.The Junior Girls Basketball Provincial Invitational Tournament champion will be either the top seed Oak Bay Breakers (who last won in 2012) or […]

Yale's Samara Mason (left) does her best to stay hip to hip with Walnut Grove's Kiera Pemberton during Day 3 Final Four action at the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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QUAD-A FINAL FOUR, Game 1: Coach Rowell running out of words to describe Kiera Pemberton’s excellence! Gators star unstoppable again in win over talented Yale Lions!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Final Four Friday here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We will have live reports on today’s two semifinals.Check back through the course of the day as we post reports as quickly as we can based on writing, photographic and broadcast demands. Your patience is appreciated!No. 1 WALNUT GROVE […]

Abbotsford's Malia Lenz led her team past McMath and into Saturday's championship final during Day 3 Final Four action at the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TRIPLE A: Game reports from Day 3 of the 2023 B.C. Triple-A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Final Four Friday here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We will have live reports on today’s two semifinals.Check back through the course of the day as we post reports as quickly as we can based on writing, photographic and broadcast demands. Your patience is appreciated!STORIES BY GARY KINGSTON […]

Team toughness exemplified, Pacific Christian Pacers' senior Eden Kremer (left) attempts to get past Langley Christian's Shaylah Black during Day 3 Final Four action at the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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DOUBLE A: Game reports from Day 3 of the 2023 B.C. Double-A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Final Four Friday here at the 2023 B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We will have live reports on today’s two semifinals.Check back through the course of the day as we post reports as quickly as we can based on writing, photographic and broadcast demands. Your patience is appreciated!No. 3 PACIFIC CHRISTIAN […]

MEI's Charlotte Dyck (left) tangles with Yale's Asia Kumar during Day 2 action at the B.C. junior girls high school basketball championships. (Photo by Gary Ahuja property of Langley Events Centre 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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JUNIOR: Game reports from Day 2 of the 2023 B.C. Junior girls basketball championships!

By GARY AHUJA (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — We have four teams left standing at the Junior Girls Basketball Provincial Invitational Tournament.The first semifinal will feature the top-seed Oak Bay Breakers and the No. 5 Argyle Pipers while the latter one is an all-Eastern Valley battle between the No. 10 M.E.I. Eagles and the No. […]

Pacific Christian's Abbi Ellison was a scoring threat from start to finish against Notre Dame during Day 2 action at the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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DOUBLE A: Game reports from Day 2 of the 2023 B.C. Double-A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 2 of the B.C. girls basketball championships from the Langley Events Centre.To our treasured readers, thank you so much for all of your support on Wednesday, leaning on us for coverage from the biggest game of the 2022-23 season.Please come back here throughout the day for live game stories and […]

Kelowna's Mav Chahal (left) tries to slow Riverside's Natalie Curley during Day 2 action at the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships. (Photo by Dan Kinvig 2023 by special permission. All Rights Reserved)
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QUAD A: Game reports from Day 2 of the 2023 B.C. Quad-A girls basketball championships!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 2 of the B.C. girls basketball championships from the Langley Events Centre.To our treasured readers, thank you so much for all of your support on Wednesday, leaning on us for coverage from the biggest game of the 2022-23 season.Please come back here throughout the day for live game stories and […]

Holy Cross' Solene Jackson helped her team to a narrow win over SMUS in the second round of play on Day 1 at the B.C. junior girls basketball championships in Langley. (Photo by Gary Ahuja property of LEC 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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JUNIOR: Game reports from Day 1 of the 2023 B.C. JUNIOR girls basketball championships!

BY GARY AHUJA (Special for Varsity Letters)The 16 games are done and the 24 teams are now settled into their three 8-team brackets (Championship, Showcase and Rivalry) following 16 games on day one of the Junior Girls Basketball Provincial Invitational Tournament!TOP HALF DRAWNo. 1 OAK BAY 56 No. 17 FLEETWOOD PARK 32LANGLEY — Facing an […]