St. Thomas More's Kyla Limon feels the defensive pressure from Churchill Bulldogs' Crystal Charchuk (left) and Sasha Neuhaus during Day 2 action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Thursday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2023 Girls Day 2: Select 16 has gone final! Get ready for Final Four Friday with STM-Walnut Grove, and MEI-Holy Cross!

LANGLEY —We’ve got all four game reports posted right here.Enjoy, and remember the Final Four begins with two Select 16 games Friday afternoon at the LEC.TBI 2023GIRLSSELECT 16(All games played on Centre Court)TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A2A No. 5 ST. THOMAS MORE 57 4A-HM SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 51 LANGLEY — In basketball, getting into a zone can […]

Her body language perhaps expressing a free and clear path in the paint to the basket, Riverside's star senior guard Avery Sussex led her team against Victoria's SMUS Blue Jags during Day 2 action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Thursday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2023 Girls Day 2: Super 16 goes final! Now, it’s Friday Final 4 with Riverside-Bby Central, Seaquam-Brookswood! Superstar Nohr drops 44 ‘Cats in OT win!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 2 of the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.What a day, led by the Grade 9 superstar Jordyn Nohr and her 44 points in Brookswood’s OT win over Mulgrave, and Seaquam taking down Quad-A No. 1 Argyle! Can you stand it!Full game reports below:GIRLSSUPER 16CHAMPIONSHIP DRAW(All games played at South Court)TOP HALF […]

As Lauren Van Dyk and her Abbotsford Christian teammates stand in on defence, Sir Winston Churchill's Louise Dykstra takes aim in the paint. during Day 1 action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI GIRLS SELECT 16 DRAW: We have gone final! All right reports now available!

LANGLEY — LANGLEY — Day 1 is over…. we have game reports from every contest played in this bracket today! Thank you for your loyalty and join us again tomorrow for more from Day 2 at TBI 2023!TBI 2023GIRLSSELECT 16(All games played on South Court)TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A4A-HM SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 66 2A No. 10 […]

Langley Christian's Grace Bradshaw (right)breaks free past Burnaby Central's Jayla Huynh for a lay-up during Day 1 action from the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational on Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI GIRLS SUPER 16 DRAW: We’ve gone final! Read all eight game reports here!

LANGLEY — Day 1 is over…. we have game reports from every contest played in this bracket today! Thank you for your loyalty and join us again tomorrow for more from Day 2 at TBI 2023!GIRLSSUPER 16(All games played at Centre Court)TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A4A No. 2 RIVERSIDE 92 4A No. 8 G.W. GRAHAM 38LANGLEY […]

Brookswood's Emma Lenhoff (left) brought tough defence to the fore as the Bobcats topped Ashlyn Mackie in the 2022 B.C. junior final Saturday at the LEC. Both teams are back in the LEC beginning Wednesday for TBI 2023 (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2023 GIRLS: Your four-day survival guide to Tsumura Basketball ’23 with info, brackets and a brand-new B.C. Top 10 for all four tiers!

LANGLEY — The absolue cream of the crop of B.C. senior girls basketball teams will call the Langley Events Centre home for the 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational, this year set to tip-off its annual four-day run Wednesday.All 10 teams occupying the coveted slots in the most recent B.C. Secondary School Babsketball Association Top 10 poll […]

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Tsumura Basketball 2023: Follow your favourite TBI teams with our complete four-day brackets for all 64 of our boys and girls entrants!

LANGLEY — This past week we unveiled the opening-day draws in each of our four separate 16-team boys and girls pools at next month’s Tsumura Basketball Invitational senior boys and girls tournaments at the Langley Events Centre.Today, we’ve got the complete Wednesday-through-Saturday brackets for all four divisions of play.BOYS (Dec. 6-9)SUPER 16Click on link below […]

Mulgrave's Eva Ruse (right) towers over Holy Cross' Kaitelyn Takeuchi during Day 3 Final Four action at the 2023 B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships. Last March. Both teams return to the LEC next month for the Tsumura Basketball Invitational. (Photo by Mark Steffens property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Girls Draws – Tsumura Basketball 2023: Who’s playing who in Round 1 as the best of B.C.’s very best gather Dec. 13-16 at the LEC!

LANGLEY — The very best of B.C.’s best.That’s the quickest and neatest way to sum up the 32 senior girls basketball teams who can now begin preparations for their opening-round opponents at B.C.’s home away from home for high school hoops.That’s right, today we unveil the two 16-team independent draws which will compete at the […]

Riverside's Avery Sussex (left) and Walnut Grove's Kyanna Knoedel squared off in last March's B.C. Quad-A final at the LEC. Both players and both teams return to same friendly confines Dec. 13-16 for the Tsumura Baseball Invitational. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI GIRLS 2023: At 32 teams strong, here’s our full team reveal for the latest girls Tsumura Basketball Invitational, set to tip Dec. 13-16 at the LEC!

LANGLEY — Best ever?Admittedly, it’s a superlative that gets tossed around a little too lightly these days.Yet as it pertains to the overall quality, depth and competitiveness of what will be the 2023 senior girls Tsumura Basketball Invitational, it’s one that seems more likely than not to hit its mark.For the first time ever, the […]

His gold medal moment! After a quarter century of leading Riverside senior girls basketball and on and off the court, Paul Langford, 66, snipped the final stitch at the Langley Event Centre's Centre Court, claiming the spoils of victory. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Riverside 70 Walnut Grove 52: How looking past the obvious and thinking outside the coaching box helped Sussex & Rapids beat Pemberton & Gators for the 2023 B.C. girls Quad-A hoops title!

LANGLEY — The hardest thing to do this season in the B.C. girls high school basketball world was to avoid concentrating on the obvious.And as so many coaches around this province would ultimately discover, paying too much defensive attention to perhaps the greatest scorer to ever grace our midst was ultimately not the answer to […]

Commanding the court, Riverside's Grade 11 point guard Avery Sussex contends with Burnaby Central's Vobia Salome during Day 3 Final Four action at the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Just call her Little Magic! Like LA Lakers famed 1980 Finals switch, Riverside point guard Sussex posts up, turns tide as Rapids top Burnaby Central for finals date with Gators!

LANGLEY — If you’ve watched Riverside Rapids’ point guard Avery Sussex for any amount of time over her senior varsity basketball career, you can’t help but be struck by the level of versatility and adaptability she brings to the fore as her team’s feisty point guard.And at no time over her career has that versatility been […]