LANGLEY — We’ve gone final at Day 1 of the 2025 B.C. senior girls Triple-A basketball championships.Here are your game reports for all eight games played Wednesday.BASKETBALLB.C. SENIOR GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIPSDAY 1 TRIPLE ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANO. 1 MEI 75 vs. NO. 16 VALLEYVIEW 29BY GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — Athleticism, balance, experience and depth. […]
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FINAL! 02.26.25 Day 1 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior girls QUAD-A Sweet 16 opening round!
LANGLEY — We’ve gone final at Day 1 of the 2025 B.C. senior girls Double-A basketball championships.Here are your game reports for all eight games played Wednesday.BASKETBALLB.C. SENIOR GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIPSDAY 1 QUAD ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ABy Howard Tsumura, Varsity LettersNO. 8 OAK BAY 75 vs. NO. 9 SEMIAHMOO 64LANGLEY —In the near two seasons which have […]
FINAL! 02.26.25 Day 1 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior girls DOUBLE-A Sweet 16 opening round!
LANGLEY — We’ve gone final at Day 1 of the 2025 B.C. senior girls Double-A basketball championships.Here are your game reports for all eight games played Wednesday.BASKETBALLB.C. SENIOR GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIPSDAY 1 DOUBLE ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANO. 1 HOLY CROSS 82 vs. NO. 16 HAZELTON 24By HOWARD TSUMURA, VARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — When was the last time the […]
On the road again! Checking in with Prince George’s Duchess Park Condors on their way to BC girls basketball championships!
LANGLEY — Ever ponder just how large the province of B.C. is?Try 944,735 square kilometres, making it larger than Washington, Oregon and California combined, or about four times the size of the United Kingdom.Prince George’s Duchess Park Condors (23-7) aren’t coming the furthest to take part in the 75th anniversary of the B.C. senior girls […]
Happy, happy birthday… it’s Sweet 75 for the BC girls high school basketball championships! We re-visit a 1994 newspaper article that looked to the future as our girls step onto brightest stage yet!
LANGLEY — In keeping with its date of publication, the hue of its newsprint has begun its fade to yellow.Yet like a perfectly-launched fadeaway jumper, the feeling you get re-reading a pair of articles from the March 8, 1994 edition of The Province newspaper, some 31 years later, seems the same as hitting nothing but […]
02.11.25 edition: B.C. senior girls basketball rankings: Topsy-turvy tumult hits Quad-A! Top five of largest tier thrown for a loop as Argyle Pipers climb to the top of the heap!
LANGLEY — Everyone wants to peak at the right time, especially with provincials tipping off in two weeks.While the rest of B.C.’s tiers remained relatively static since the last polling period, the Quad-A ranks have undergone some mighty upheaval and as the dust clears, coming off Tessa’s Tournament, North Vancouver’s Argyle Pipers are standing tall […]
01.27.25 edition: B.C. senior girls basketball rankings: It’s a month to the start of the provincials, and No. 1’s and No. 2’s holding ground at all four tiers!
LANGLEY — One month out from the start of the B.C. championships and finding spots in the top four of B.C.’s four senior girls varsity tiers is tough sledding.This week, North Vancouver’s Argyle Pipers move up one spot to No. 3 in Quad-A.Prince George’s College Heights Cougars and the Vernon Panthers each move up a […]
12.18.24 B.C. girls basketball rankings: No. 1 Seaquam maintains top spot over No. 2 Brookswood after TBI Super 16 title-game win!
LANGLEY — The latest B.C. senior girls basketball rankings for 4A, 3A and 2A!QUAD-A1 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF) (LW-1)2 Brookswood Bobcats (Langley) (EV) (2)3 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (3)4 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS) (5)5 Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers (Surrey) (SF) (6)6 G.W. Graham Grizzlies (Chilliwack) (EV) (4)7 Okanagan Mission Huskies (Kelowna) (OK) (7)8 Kelowna […]
A Sunday Read: Remembering Prentice Lenz (1971-2024), a farmer for all seasons and a coach for the ages
By HOWARD TSUMURA, VarsityLetters.caABBOTSFORD — In the parlance of his profession, Prentice Lenz tilled every inch of a basketball court with the same level of discipline, ingenuity and faith he practiced every time he’d crouch to put his hands in the earth.Farmer. Family man. Father figure. He was all three of those in ways in which […]
TBI 2024: Despite MVP Jordyn Nohr’s stirring second half for No. 2 Brookswood, it’s No. 1 Seaquam’s fast start and late poise that carry the day as Seahawks repeat as Super 16 champs!
LANGLEY — On a blustery, wind-whipped Saturday, power outages across the region threatened the cancellation of the eagerly-anticipated battle between the No. 1 Seaquam Seahawks and the No. 2 Brookswood Bobcats in the final of the Tsumura Basketball Invitational’s Super 16 championship final at the Langley Events Centre.Yet by the time the sun had set […]