NORTH VANCOUVER — As the starting quarterback of the Carson Graham Eagles, Logan Mellish puts all of his cards on the table each time he takes command of the huddle.“I love contact,” states the 6-foot-3, 200-pound Mellish, whose selfless, old-school approach to the pivot position has helped position the Eagles as provincial contenders amongst a […]
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B.C. High School Football Weekend Survival Guide 10.18.21 edition: Irish vs. Rams highlights quartet of Big 5-ranked battles!
LANGLEY — October has not disappointed in terms of providing the best match-ups we’ve seen this season.From a pair of games featuring ranked opponents last week, to four more this weekend featuring the same, it’s time to count down to three weeks remaining in the regular season.To keep up with it all, here is another […]
Fighting Irish top Belmont to keep pace with Jugglers atop AAA West as Saturday brings a close to a tough week for B.C. high school football programs!
VANCOUVER — Saturday’s two combatants at O’Hagan Field brought one of the most battle-scarred weeks f B.C. high school football to a close.With games being cancelled by extreme weather, injuries and just overall player shortages, noting about the last seven days was a guarantee for all of those involved with simply getting their teams ready […]
Heavy rains mean power football! Says Barsby head coach Rob Stevenson after win over West Van: “The weather was like a 12th player on the field for us”
One of the great beauties of football is the fact that the elements have a way of forcing your hand, of raining down so hard that the message is clear: Strap it up and run.Yet such atmospheric dictates have never, ever backed Nanaimo’s John Barsby Bulldogs (3-1) into a corner, a fact that head coach […]
No. 2 Mt. Douglas at No. 3 Notre Dame: Who wins? Victoria’s Rams with its Thunder & Lightning at backfield, or the Iron Curtain defence of East Van’s Jugglers!
BURNABY — The heavens have been threatening all week with a distinct dark-cloud scowl, and yet if the football gods do indeed decide to order up rain by sheets for Friday afternoon’s highly-anticipated AAA clash of unbeatens at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex (2 p.m.), then so be it.East Vancouver’s No. 3-ranked Notre Dame Jugglers have […]
A coin-flip showdown for No. 1 under Friday Night Lights: AA’s showcase game features top-ranked, host Langley T-Birds against Abby’s No. 2 Bateman T-Wolves!
LANGLEY — The only coin-flip you’re going to see Friday at McLeod Stadium (7 p.m.) is the one at the 50-yard line to determine who will receive the football to start B.C.’s first No. 1 vs. No. 2 high school football match-up since 2019.Yet trying to predict a winner between the top-ranked and host Langley […]
The beauty of high school school sports: When Kelowna Owls’ team bus blows a tire on Coquihalla, its game-day football trip to Abbotsford takes on a higher meaning!
If you happened to be headed south on the Coquihalla last Friday morning, somewhere in the range of 20 minutes outside of Merritt, then maybe you witnessed first-hand what one venerable B.C. high school football coach so passionately labels “… one of those moments along the journey.”There it was: A school bus from Kelowna Secondary, […]
Bateman QB Nolan Watrin carries on a family tradition: Varsity Letters’ BCSSFA Player of the Week leads Double-A in both passing yards and picks for No. 2-ranked Timberwolves!
ABBOTSFORD — When opposition coaches sit down in the film room to do their pre-game due diligence, they all arrive at a point where they see just how natural the kid wearing No. 3 for the Robert Bateman Timberwolves looks whether he’s commanding the huddle at quarterback or making a big play on defence from […]
Fighting Irish making O’Hagan their fortress! No. 1-AAA Vancouver College stays perfect at 5-0 following shutout win over Seaquam Seahawks!
VANCOUVER — In case you’re wondering, it’s been 749 days since the Vancouver College Fighting Irish last lost a football game.That’s over two years and counting, and although we know the pandemic wiped out the entire 2020 season, the smart money — based on the way the Irish has picked up in 2021 where it […]
No. 3 AAA Notre Dame does it again on defence! After 34-0 win over South Delta, 5-0 Jugglers have still not allowed a single point!
TSAWWASSEN — If you want to let the numbers do the speaking, then the Notre Dame Jugglers did to the host South Delta Sun Devils what they have done to every team the East Vancouver school has faced this season.No. 3-ranked Notre Dame, en route to winning all five of its games by shutout this […]