No. 1 BROOKSWOOD 69 No. 2 ST. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL 63 (OT)LANGLEY — Jordyn Nohr knows her way around the historical section of the annual B.C. girls basketball championship program.And the Grade 9 guard with Langley’s top-seeded Brookswood Bobcats, who on Saturday added yet another MVP trophy to place up on the family mantle following […]
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A Sunday Read: How this photo tells a thousand words about why our high school coaches coach! Here’s why I am writing about what Danie Gardner’s face says to me as her Langley Christian Lightning win B.C. girls Double-A title!
No. 3 LANGLEY CHRISTIAN 75 No. 1 MULGRAVE 69By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — Somehow, somewhere amidst the sea of Langley Christian players, parents and most of all fans, the latter of whom just a minute or two prior had stormed the court at the Langley Events Centre, Lightning coach Danielle Gardner found a tiny sliver of […]
Schuurman’s historic showing earns Unity Christian Flames first Single A title in five years in win over Pacific Christian’s Pacers!
By AARON MARTIN (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — If you’re put on the big stage, you’re expected to put on a big show.In the B.C. senior girls Single-A championship final Saturday at the Langley Events Centre, Miah Schuurman and Chilliwack’s Unity Christian Flames more than obliged, delivering a high-flying, 83-75 win over Victoria’s Pacific Christian […]
Why bronze is still golden! Hopf’s two clutch free throws allow OKM’s Huskies to have their Quad-A medal moment at the LEC!
BY AARON MARTIN (Special for Varsity Letters)(Note — Varsity Letters will do it’s best to post championship game stories form the 1A, 2A, 3A and 4A finals today from the LEC. Please check back later tonight for updates. For stories you don’t see out promise is to get them to you as quickly as possible […]
TRIPLE-A B.C. girls Final Four 2024: Brookswood more than the Jordyn-aires! Bevy of Bobcats make long-distance splash as Brookswood tops Reynolds and heads to BC final!
No. 1 BROOKSWOOD 73 vs No. 5 REYNOLDS 51By Dan Kinvig (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — When a team has one lights-out perimeter shooter, it’s a nuisance for the opposition.If they have two? It’s a problem.Any more than that? It’s a five-alarm fire, nearly impossible to extinguish.Case in point? The Brookswood Bobcats’ team-wide flame-throwing exhibition […]
QUAD-A B.C. girls Final Four 2024: Avery and Jorja are kindred souls right to their soles! Story of Rapids’ pair unlaced as Riverside tops OKM for third-straight BC finals berth!
No. 1 RIVERSIDE 81 vs No. 4 OKANAGAN MISSION 65By Dan Kinvig (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — There’s little new ground to be broken in the digital pages of this website when it comes to Avery Sussex.Like, newsflash, did you know she’s very good at basketball and scores a lot of points?That’s not the direction […]
QUAD-A B.C. girls Final Four 2024: Seaquam Seahawks top Yale, stake claim as first North Delta senior girls team in BC senior final in over a generation!
No. 3 SEAQUAM 81 vs No. 7 YALE 40By Dan Kinvig (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — Digging through the B.C. 4A tournament record book to find the last time a North Delta senior girls basketball squad advanced to the title game in B.C.’s highest tier, you have to back . . . waaaaaaaaaaay back.Thirty-eight years, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]