Handsworth quarterback Brett Birch-Jones (left) and running back Robert Lutman were among the Royals whose perseverance gave the North Van team its signature win thus far this season. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Blair.photo 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ 10.18.19 Friday Night Lights B.C. High School Football Report

Welcome to the Final Edition of Varsity Letters’ Friday Night Lights B.C. High School Football Report.Keep us in mind Saturday as more action unfolds.And remember that the Subway Bowl playoffs kick-off exactly three weeks from today!AAAFRIDAYWESTERN CONFERENCENo. 2 SOUTH DELTA 37 at BELMONT 6VICTORIA —The South Delta Sun Devils (5-0) are setting the pace atop […]

Your old-and-wise reporter has seen it all, and this week dishes on his picks for Top 5 games in the BC High School football world. Also provided: Schedules, rankings and last week's scores.
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Varsity Letters’ All-U-Can-Eat High School Football Weekend Survival Guide: Our Top 5 blue-chip games, schedules, rankings, scores!

LANGLEY — That true fall football feeling has seeped into the environment, and as we enter the third-to-last weekend of the regular season, here’s our All-You-Can-Eat weekend B.C. High School Survival Guide.

Vancouver College Fighting Irish Jason Soriano (14) and the rest of the Irish defence play host to No. 1 New Westminster on Saturday. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Varsity Letters 10.14.19 BC High School Football Big 5: Hyacks hold No. 1 AAA ahead of visit to No. 3 VC’s O’Hagan Field on Saturday

The leaders held their ground this week at both tiers of B.C. high school football, but with only three more weekends of conference play remaining, just call it the calm before the storm.Here are this week’s updated Varsity Letters’ Big 5 rankings with overall-and-conference records, as well as previous rankings in parenthesis: TRIPLE A1 New Westminster […]

Twenty-three was the magic number Saturday for the Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers, who got a game-winning 65-yard kick-off return from Grade 11 standout Tremel States-Jones in a narrow win at Seaquam. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ Saturday BCHSF Report: Lord Tweedsmuir’s States-Jones is ‘The Answer’ in tight win over Seaquam Seahawks

Welcome to the Saturday edition of Varsity letters’ B.C. High School Football Report. Keep checking back over the course of the day for updates from all games played today around the province.

Taking a well earned breather late in the game on defence, Langley's star running back Kai Thomas rushed for 279 yards and five touchdowns in a big AA win at Robert Bateman on Friday. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ 10.11.19 Friday Night Lights B.C. High School Football Report

Welcome to the Friday Night Lights early edition of Varsity Letters’ B.C. High School Football Report. Keep checking back over the course of the evening for updates from all games played today around the province.

Seaquam's Christian Carlon-Diaz has always been good at making would-be tacklers miss in space. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Christian Carlon-Diaz: No matter how you spell his name, Seaquam Seahawks’ star RB-1 knows there is no ‘I’ in team

NORTH DELTA — The old saying in sports is that there is no ‘I’ in team, and in a manner of speaking, no one lives more to the credo than Seaquam’s Christian Carlon-Diaz.Look up the star running back on the Seahawks’ team roster which is part of bchighschoolfootball.com‘s official website, and for the past three […]

After a leg injury knocked star Abbotsford senior running back Jalem Catlin out of action in the first half of last week's clash at Lord Tweedsmuir, the standout's availability for this Friday's game against STM is in question. If he can't go then Panther Grade 11 Silvestro Aging (left), pictured against Lord Tweedsmuir's Key'Shaun Dorsey, could see more carries. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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The Big 5 10.10.19 edition: Varsity Letters’ Top 5 B.C. High School Football Games To Watch this weekend

LANGLEY — Week 6 of the BCHSF season is now upon us, and as conference races become a little more focused, the action picks up in intensity. Here’s a look at five games to watch, plus full schedules by conference and last week’s scoreboard below:

A sack artist at work, St. Thomas More's Kaishaun Carter finds his way through the Kelowna Owls last Friday at Burnaby Lake. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Kaishaun Carter: “…I pride myself on my football IQ” says St. Thomas More’s senior blue-chip defensive end

BURNABY — Last month, as the St. Thomas More Knights set off to Mission for what would eventually be a hard-fought 18-6 win over the host Roadrunners, STM head coach Steve De Lazzari sent a text to his defensive coordinator Jared Power about one of the team’s influential seniors.“Coach Power was going to be away […]

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Varsity Letters PODCAST 10.09.19: SFU basketball’s Steve Hanson, Tweedsmuir football’s Kurt Thornton and Centennial basketball’s Rob Sollero

Thanks for joining us for another episode of Varsity Letters — The Podcast! Basketball season is just around the corner and with it, the start of another season of the NCAA variety atop Burnaby Mountain. Simon Fraser Clan head coach Steve Hanson has orchestrated one of the biggest turnarounds in college basketball over the past […]

Abbotsford will look to bounce back from last week's loss at Lord Tweedsmuir when the Panthers travel to face Eastern Conference co-leader St. Thomas More on Friday at Burnaby Lakes. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Varsity Letters 10.07.19 BC High School Football Big 5: STM’s Knights scrap their way into rankings, set to host Abby on Friday

LANGLEY — Welcome to Week 6 of the 2019 B.C. high school football season.St. Thomas More, at one stage of the early season forced to forfeit a non-conference rivalry game against Vancouver College due to a rash of injuries, are sitting at 3-0 in the Eastern Conference, deadlocked with North Delta’s Seaquam Seahawks.While the heavyweights […]