By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersNORTH DELTA — Ever watch a high school basketball game in which at its conclusion both teams could rightly claim a loss, yet along the way to said result, laid bare a pure guts performance so compelling that as a spectator you just felt fortunate to have been in the gym?That was […]
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Yes, it’s a marathon, but for North Van’s No. 1-ranked Argyle Pipers, the Road to the LEC can also have its share of sprints!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersNORTH VANCOUVER — Wonder what one of the best high school basketball teams in the province had planned for in the early morning hours of today, the first Tuesday in February?“Umm, we have wind sprints at 7:10 a.m., tomorrow morning… and it’s on purpose, right?” Anthony Beyrouti, head coach of the Quad-A […]
02.02.26 edition: Pipers, Panthers, Crusaders and T-Wolves hold down the fort! Are latest BC senior girls Top 10 rankings the calm before the playoff storm?
LANGLEY — The calm before the storm.That’s perhaps the easiest way, ahead of the stretch-drive run to playoffs, to describe the quietest week of the B.C. senior girls basketball season… at least as far as movement in the provincial rankings is concerned.The Lambrick Park Pride’s four-spot rise in Double-A aside, the figurative pond remained placid […]
01.26.26 edition: The latest B.C. senior girls Top 10 basketball ranks: Vernon Panthers take over top spot in latest Triple-A Top 10, Argyle Pipers maintain top sot at Quad A!
LANGLEY — We’ve got the latest B.C. senior girls high school basketball rankings for Jan. 26., 2026.The big move this week?The Vernon Panthers have ascended to the No. 1 spot in the Triple-A ranks.A note to readers who have asked about getting rankings for the tiers that are not represented in this space… unfortunately we […]
01.12.26 edition: The first B.C. senior girls high school basketball Top 10 rankings of 2026 are here!
LANGLEY — Here are the first B.C. School Sports’ Top 10s of 2026 available from Tiers 4A, 3A and 2A:GIRLSQUAD-A1 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS) (LW-1) 2 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (2) 3 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF) (3)4 G.W. Graham Grizzlies (Chilliwack) (EV) (4)5 MEI Eagles (Abbotsford) (EV) (5)6 Semiahmoo Thunderbirds (Surrey) (SF) (8) 7 Johnston […]
The story of UBC’s Cerys Merton: How a penchant for defence, inspired by a late high school teammate, has helped ‘Birds guard become her program’s all-time steals-per-game leader!
By Howard TsumuraVANCOUVER — Thumb through the pages of Cerys Merton’s own basketball dictionary, and you’ll discover that the definition of the term ‘skill set’ includes at least one discipline not commonly clustered with the likes of the game’s time-honoured standards of shooting, passing and dribbling.“I think the biggest thing is just constantly bringing that […]
12.17.25 edition: Argyle, Langley Christian, Holy Cross top the latest B.C. girls high school Top 10 basketball rankings!
LANGLEY — The Tsumura Basketball Invitational brought together the majority of the top teams from the province’s three largest tiers… and the results have spoken with new No. 1s this week at the Quad- and Triple-A tiers.Here are B.C. School Sports’ latest Top 10s with two of four precincts reporting.Check back for a potential new […]
TBI 2025: Even with its size, Argyle Pipers prove bigger than the sum of its parts in Super 16 title win over Riverside!
LANGLEY — Broken down to its most essential parts, North Vancouver’s Argyle Pipers are a team filled with individual success stories.A 6-foot-5 post who just accomplished in the past four days what it may well have taken her all of last season to accomplish.An irrepressible inside-outside scoring threat, who after copping Most Valuable Player honours […]
TBI 2025: Super 16 draw hits Final Four Friday! Riverside, Argyle get big wins to set finals card! Read our game reports here!
Reports from Friday night’s two TBI Super 16 semifinals are here:RIVERSIDE 68 SEAQUAM 64By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — Ari Brown is just starting to show us who she is supposed to become on the basketball court.Yet there was Riverside’s 6-foot Grade 9 starter, in the heat of a TBI Super 16 Final Four fourth-quarter drive of […]
TBI 2025: Select 16 draw hits Final Four Friday! Read our game reports here!
Check back here throughout the evening for game reports from our two Select 16 Final Four matchups.PITT MEADOWS 64 CENTENNIAL 47By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — Jason Boyes has a lot more multi-sports athletes than he does fulltime basketball devotees on his roster, yet the head coach of the Putt Meadows Marauders is not complaining.In fact, when big […]