Kealayna Tupas-Singh looks to dribble up the floor past Neveah Aquinas of Sir Alexander Mackenzie during B.C. girls Single-A semifinals at the LEC on Friday. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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SINGLE-A B.C. girls Final Four 2024: Tight pull of family helps Pacific Christian return to B.C. title game after tiering change!

No. 1 Pacific Christian 73 No. 5 Sir Alexander Mackenzie 62By Nicolas Hauka (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — A sense of family and belonging is essential to being successful in life.No. 1-seeded Pacific Christian Pacers coaches Jen and John Stewart say there’s also a correlation on the basketball court.It was a feeling that seemed almost […]

Fast-breaking to the basket like the Showtime Lakers, Langley Christian's Colette Van der Hoven does some damage to Surrey's Holy Cross Crusaders during Day 3 Final Four play at the 2024 B.C. senior girls basketball championships Feb. 29, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Garrett James property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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DOUBLE-A B.C. girls Final Four 2024: LCS Lighting bolt out of gates like Showtime Lakers, top Holy Cross behind Van der Hoven’s career-best 32 points!

By Howard TsumuraNo. 3 LANGLEY CHRISTIAN 74 No. 2 HOLY CROSS 40LANGLEY — Sometimes the most valuable win you can have prior to the playoffs is a close one that gets under your skin, gnaws at you unrelentingly and pushes you to a new level of desperation.That’s what happened to the Langley Christian Lightning last […]

The 5-foot-2 Kyla Limon of STM courageously stands against Mulgrave's 6-foot-2 Eva Ruse during Day 3 Final Four play at the 2024 B.C. senior girls basketball championships Feb. 29, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Garrett James property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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DOUBLE-A B.C. girls Final Four 2024: Tiny St. Thomas More shows size of its fight, but No. 1, defending BC champs Mulgrave ride Eva Ruse’s 36 points to win!

No. 1 MULGRAVE 70 No. 5 ST. THOMAS MORE 44LANGLEY — You could scan the rosters of every senior girls basketball team in the province, and you might not be able to find two sides who contrasted each other more in overall size than the two who met Friday afternoon in the B.C. senior girls […]

Pacific Christian's Megan Thompson (left) is slowed by Mulgrave's Deanna Naemi during Day 2 quarterfinal play at the 2024 B.C, senior girls basketball championships Feb. 29, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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02.29.24 Day 2 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior girls DOUBLE-A Final Four basketball championships!

Welcome to Day 2 of the 2024 B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We’ll do our best to give you game recaps of all four quarterfinals in this tier being played today.Please continue to check back throughout the day for updates.As well, go to VarsityLetters.ca to catch up on all of the other reports from the […]

Kelowna's Morgan Clark finds the going tight against Riverside's Olivia Wheatley during Day 2 quarterfinal play at the 2024 B.C, senior girls basketball championships Feb. 29, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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02.29.24 Day 2 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior girls QUAD-A Final Four basketball championships!

Welcome to Day 2 of the 2024 B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We’ll do our best to give you game recaps of all four quarterfinals in this tier being played today.Please continue to check back throughout the day for updates.As well, go to VarsityLetters.ca to catch up on all of the other reports from the […]

Bella Graves (left) of the Reynolds Roadrunners battle with Ella Tatlock of the MEI Eagles during Day 2 quarterfinal play at the 2024 B.C. senior girls basketball championships Feb. 29, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Garrett James property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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02.29.24 Day 2 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior girls TRIPLE-A quarterfinals!

Welcome to Day 2 of the 2024 B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We’ll do our best to give you game recaps of all four quarterfinals in this tier being played today.Please continue to check back throughout the day for updates.As well, go to VarsityLetters.ca to catch up on all of the other reports from the […]

Sadie Thielen (right) of Carnbrook's Mt. Baker Wild (right) makes things tough for Riverside's Henna Vick during Day 1 of the B.C. Quad-A senior girls basketball championships Feb. 28, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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A reporter’s notebook from Day 1 at the 2024 B.C. senior girls basketball championships

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2024 B.C. senior girls basketball championships.A bit of a change-up this year, which I eluded to here yesterday.Today I am solo pretty much the entire day and thus will be wandering the gym with my notepad and voice recorder, looking for a few interesting stories to tell. […]

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A message from Howard T: Some changes to my coverage at B.C. girls and boys senior basketball championships

LANGLEY — Hello to all of my loyal readers here at Varsity Letters.I felt it was important today for me to let everyone know that there will be some changes to way I will be covering both the B.C. senior girls and boys tournaments which run Feb. 28-March 2, and March 6-9, here at the […]

Riverside guard Avery Sussex led her team past Kiera Pemberton and the Walnut Grove Gators in last season's B.C. Quad-A final at the LEC. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Avery Sussex and the Big Dance: How an amazing high school debut at Riverside foretold a career of dominance, and a chance to forge an unforgettable Rapids’ finish!

PORT COQUITLAM — The basketball court is the place where Avery Sussex has shown her heart from the very start.It’s also the place where it’s been impossible to miss the fact that she’s had her guile for a while.Very few players ever make the kind of debut that Sussex did, when as a 10th grader […]

Riverside co-coach Jeremy Neufeld (left) does some sideline scheming with Rapids' gritty forward Rae Roycroft during the Fraser North Quad-A title game on Sunday at Simon Fraser University. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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The 74th annual BC Girls Basketball Championships: Here’s your road map to all four tiers as Riverside, Brookswood, Mulgrave and Pacific Christian hunt provincial titles as No. 1 seeds!

LANGLEY — Defending B.C. champion Riverside of Port Coquitlam, fresh off its Fraser North championship victory over Burnaby South on Sunday, has been installed as the favourites to repeat at Quad-A as draw were released Wednesday for the 74th annual B.C. senior girls basketball championships, set to open a four-day run Feb. 28-March 2 at […]