Langley running back Ryan Goeson (1) will face the Bateman defence Friday at McLeod Stadium. (Photo courtesy Langley Secondary athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

When you ask Kelowna Owls' head football coach Chris Cartwright about the hurdles all high school teams face, he says "When we talk about adversity, we always talk about it being a part of our story." (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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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, […]

Robert Bateman Timberwolves' Grade 11 quarterback Nolan Watrin threw four touchdown passes last week in a win over Surrey's Holy Cross Crusaders. (Photo property of Rick MacDonald 2021, courtesy of Robert Bateman athletics. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

Vancouver College running back Tommy Carvaolho, picutred here in the team's season-opening win over Carson Graham, rushed six times for 46 yards in a shutout win over visiting Seaquam. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

Notre Dame safety Massimo Ryan's fumble recovery Saturday helped set up a touchdown and keep the Jugglers' defence perfect through five games following a shutout win at South Delta. (Photo property of Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

The Frank Hurt Hornets were unable to win their first AAA Pacific Conference game of the season after falling to crosstown Earl Marriott on Saturday at Bear Creek Park. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Earl Marriott senior Armaan Gill, Grade 9 Cameron Boyes enjoy special moments as Mariners top Frank Hurt Hornets, move to 2-0 in AAA Pacific!

SURREY — Armaan Gill, like so many other Class of ’22 B.C. high school football seniors, had his Grade 11 season snatched away in 2020 by the global pandemic.So you have to know that every moment is being savoured by the current crop of Grade 12s, and on Saturday, Gill didn’t waste a single moment.Gill, […]

G.W. Graham defensive end Vinny Branauer has put up sack numbers over the early part of the 2021 B.C. high school football season large enough as to make past comparables very tough to find. (Photo by Joanne Hewitt property of G.W. Graham athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Even after two lost seasons, G.W. Graham’s Vinny Branauer a hard secret to keep, Grade 11 rush end has 18 sacks over first five AAA games for No. 5 Grizzlies!

CHILLIWACK — Vincent Branauer knows that if he keeps doing what he has been doing over the first month-plus of the 2021 B.C. high school football season, chances are he won’t exactly be a secret to opposition defensive offensive line coaches for much longer.And the same goes for university football recruiters.Yet in the rarest of […]

Terry Fox Grade 11 quarterback Owen Sieben is tackled out of bounds by South Delta's Matthew McPhie. (Photo by Becky Severy property of Terry Fox athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Terry Fox finds a QB gem in Grade 11 Owen Sieben: Varsity Letters’ BCSSFA Player of the Week throws for four scores in win over Kelowna Owls!

PORT COQUITLAM — Ask Terry Fox Ravens’ head coach Tom Kudaba for some memorable moments that were part of 2020’s cancelled B.C. high school football season, and one that sticks out was the sight of a then-newcomer to the team’s distanced practice sessions.“When we saw him last year, we just went ‘Holy cow, this kid […]

Mt. Douglas Rams head coach Mark Townsend (centre) brought a team to Seaquam Secondary on Saturday which caught the attention of Seahawks' head coach Kevin Phillips. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Varsity Letter’s B.C. High School Football Report 10.02.21 Saturday edition: Mt. Douglas and Belmont reach return victorious to Victoria at expense of Delta schools!

Saturday action wraps up another week in the world of B.C. High School Football.It was a day for Victoria’s two Triple A teams to flex their muscle, each getting wins on the Mainland.SATURDAYNo. 2 MT. DOUGLAS 40 at SEAQUAM 18NORTH DELTA — Kevin Phillips has been coaching B.C. senior varsity high school teams off and […]

Argyle's long-striding Ryan Holden snared a pair of 30-yard touchdown passes Friday in the Pipers' win over Windsor. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Blair.photo 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Varsity Letters’ 10.01.21 ‘A day late, but not a dollar short’ edition of the Friday Night Lights’ B.C. High School Football Report!

Welcome to the one-day-later version of the B.C. High School Football Report’s Friday Nights Lights edition.Thanks to all for understanding my previously-scheduled engagement with UBC football. We are back to our normal schedule for the remainder of the season.And thanks this week to Varsity Letters’ kind photographic contributors: Blair Shier, Joanne Hewitt, Rick Macdonald and […]