COQUITLAM — Welcome to the fourth and final day of the Centennial Top 10 Shoot-Out here at Centennial Secondary School.Check back at Varsity Letters through the day today as we provide game reports from several of the four-day event’s placing games.As well, we’ll have a separate posting on the championship final between Quad A’s two […]
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A girls hoops classic returns this week! Centennial’s Top 10 Shoot-Out ’23 brings elite field to the Tri-Cities beginning Wednesday! Riverside, Walnut Grove, Mulgrave, OKM, Abby among the blue-chips to beat!
COQUITLAM — Centennial Secondary and cross-city Riverside Secondary of PoCo play the co-host role as the Centennial Top 10 Shoot-Out returns for the first time since January of 2020.The draw is stacked with talent top to bottom, and stars like Tsumura Basketball Invitational MVP Kiera Pemberton of Want Grove, and Riverside’s unflappable point guard Avery […]
B.C. girls high school basketball Top 10’s 01.10.23 edition: Abby Panthers, Mulgrave Titans each carry No. 1 ranks into Centennial Top 10 Shoot-Out tourney! Plus, Oak Bay tops junior girls Top 10!
LANGLEY — Here are the latest top 10 rankings courtesy of the B.C. Girls Secondary Schools Basketball Association. Just a note that Quad-A is not issuing fresh rankings until next week, following the completion of this week’s Centennial Top 10 Shoot-Out tournament which begins its four-day run Wednesday at both Centennial and Riverside Secondary.Today we’ve […]
12.20.22 BC Girls Top 10 hoops ranks: Burnaby Central, Churchill, Pac Christian take big leaps forward while Abby Panthers move to top of 3A! Riverside, Mulgrave, Credo hold on to No. 1!
LANGLEY — Following this past week’s Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the LEC, here are the latest top 10 rankings courtesy of the B.C. Secondary Schools Basketball Association.QUAD-A1 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (LW-1)2 Walnut Grove Gators (Langley) (EV) (2)3 Okanagan Mission Huskies (Kelowna) (OK) (4) 4 Burnaby Central Wildcats (FN) (6)5 Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs (Vancouver) […]
A SUNDAY READ: How a scorer for the ages and the cast of B.C.’s No. 1 team produced a classic Tsumura Basketball final! Here’s to Riverside, Walnut Grove and the incomparable Kiera Pemberton!
No. 1 RIVERSIDE 73 No. 2 WALNUT GROVE 68By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — Saturday night’s championship final of the showcase Super 16 bracket here at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational produced not only a worthy champion, but yet another reminder that we are in the midst of what might be the most dominant individual streak of scoring […]
Tsumura Basketball 2022: It’s Kiera and Avery in TBI’s title tilt tonight after Pemberton & Gators top Mulgrave, and Sussex & Rapids top OKM’s Huskies!
LANGLEY — The two teams ranked at the very top of the B.C. senior girls Quad-A Top 10 poll have done their part to help create a dream championship final here at the 2022 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.And the best part of all?The No. 1-ranked Riverside Rapids of Port Coquitlam and the No. 2-ranked Walnut Grove […]
Tsumura Basketball 2022: Like Maddy Gobeil before her, South Kam’s Kiana Kaczur sets the bar high in TBI Rising 8 title win over Vernon!
SOUTH KAMLOOPS 52 VERNON 28By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — Kiana Kaczur was an impressionable sixth-grader back in the 2017-18 school year, and in March of that year she watched a South Kamloops Titans senior girls basketball team led by a special player named Maddy Gobeil win the B.C. senior girls Double-A title for er school.All these […]
Tsumura Basketball 2022: Tweedy’s MVP Sevene Grewal puts her heart on the three-point line, leads Panthers past Ramblers for Local 8 title!
LORD TWEEDSMUIR 69 MAPLE RIDGE 43By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — In the tradition of all great shooters, Sevene Grewal knew just how to shake off the doldrums of a slow day on the court.She trusted that shot of hers, and in the end, it rewarded both her and the rest of Surrey’s Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers with […]
TBI Super 16 quarters: Quad-A No. 1 Riverside prevails, but everyone finding out that Burnaby Central is for real!
RIVERSIDE 73 BURNABY CENTRAL 53By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — Don’t try tell Paul Langford that his Quad-A No. 1-ranked Riverside Rapids are advancing to the Tsumura Basketball Invitational Super 16 Final Four on the strength of a 20-point win over the Burnaby Central Wildcats.Sure, the Rapids beat the Burnaby Central Wildcats 73-53 in the quarters on […]
TBI Super 16 quarters: Three seasons after winning 2019 Tsumura title, Okanagan Mission tops Churchill for Friday Final Four berth!
OKANAGAN MISSION 57 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 49BY Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — Last season’s Tsumura Basketball Invitational just managed to beat the shutdown of all high school basketball tournaments in the new year owing to the spread of the Omicron variant.Still, the threat was still real enough to keep up-country teams on a travel ban and off […]