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Fernie's Billie Kennedy is one of five returning starters for the Falcons who make their TBI debut Wednesday against Earl Marriott. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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“Small town but gritty” Fernie Falcons make their Tsumura Basketball Invitational debut Wednesday with experienced, tall-timbered line-up hoping it’s a dress rehearsal for February provincials!

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By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — The Fernie Falcons are soaring due west to the Langley Events Centre to start their 2025-26 season.In past seasons, the normal practice for the Double-A school from the the extreme southeast corner of the province, would be to board a bus and head out to all points east of the Alberta […]

Fernie Falcons' rising senior big man Nesta Malcolm (right) battles Highroad Academy senior Dawson Hartskamp during Final Four clash earlier this month at the B.C. 1-A boys basketball championships staged at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. 1-A 2020-21 preseason rankings: Dynamic Kootenays’ duo of Hannemann and 6-foot-7 Malcolm has No. 1 Fernie Falcons soaring

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FERNIE — Fully encircled by the Rocky Mountains and sitting in the southeastern most corner of our province, Fernie (pop. 5,000) is not the first place you’re apt to label as a burgeoning hoops hotbed.Yet when the 2020-21 B.C. high school basketball season tips off this December, Fernie Secondary’s fantastic yet faraway Falcons will wear […]