LANGLEY — Quad-A was the home of the biggest climbers over the holiday season for games played Dec. 17 through Jan. 6.Vancouver College and Oak Bay each rose three spots with the Irish moving into No. 2 and the the Bays into No. 7.The Fighting Irish won five straight to end December, including a 112-101 […]
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The story of UBC’s Cerys Merton: How a penchant for defence, inspired by a late high school teammate, has helped ‘Birds guard become her program’s all-time steals-per-game leader!
By Howard TsumuraVANCOUVER — Thumb through the pages of Cerys Merton’s own basketball dictionary, and you’ll discover that the definition of the term ‘skill set’ includes at least one discipline not commonly clustered with the likes of the game’s time-honoured standards of shooting, passing and dribbling.“I think the biggest thing is just constantly bringing that […]
B.C. junior boys basketball provincial invitational berthing announcement!
Attn coaches of B.C. junior boys basketball teams, we have news for you!
12.17.25 edition: BC senior and junior Top 10’s! Holy Cross, Byrne Creek big leapers, VC Irish top JV poll!
LANGLEY — Here’s a look at the latest Top 10s from all four tiers, plus we’ve got the latest B.C. junior boys Top 10 as well:BASKETBALLTOP 10 RANKINGSB.C. SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Tamanawis Wildcats (Surrey) (SF) (LW-1)2 Dover Bay Dolphins (Nanaimo) (VI) (2)3 Kelowna Owls (TOK) (4) 4 G.W. Graham Grizzlies (Chilliwack) (EV) (6) 5 Vancouver College Fighting […]
12.17.25 edition: Argyle, Langley Christian, Holy Cross top the latest B.C. girls high school Top 10 basketball rankings!
LANGLEY — The Tsumura Basketball Invitational brought together the majority of the top teams from the province’s three largest tiers… and the results have spoken with new No. 1s this week at the Quad- and Triple-A tiers.Here are B.C. School Sports’ latest Top 10s with two of four precincts reporting.Check back for a potential new […]
TBI 2025: Even with its size, Argyle Pipers prove bigger than the sum of its parts in Super 16 title win over Riverside!
LANGLEY — Broken down to its most essential parts, North Vancouver’s Argyle Pipers are a team filled with individual success stories.A 6-foot-5 post who just accomplished in the past four days what it may well have taken her all of last season to accomplish.An irrepressible inside-outside scoring threat, who after copping Most Valuable Player honours […]
TBI 2025: Super 16 draw hits Final Four Friday! Riverside, Argyle get big wins to set finals card! Read our game reports here!
Reports from Friday night’s two TBI Super 16 semifinals are here:RIVERSIDE 68 SEAQUAM 64By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — Ari Brown is just starting to show us who she is supposed to become on the basketball court.Yet there was Riverside’s 6-foot Grade 9 starter, in the heat of a TBI Super 16 Final Four fourth-quarter drive of […]
TBI 2025: Select 16 draw hits Final Four Friday! Read our game reports here!
Check back here throughout the evening for game reports from our two Select 16 Final Four matchups.PITT MEADOWS 64 CENTENNIAL 47By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — Jason Boyes has a lot more multi-sports athletes than he does fulltime basketball devotees on his roster, yet the head coach of the Putt Meadows Marauders is not complaining.In fact, when big […]
FINAL: TBI 2025 Super 16 Quarterfinal game reports are here! Tsumura Basketball Invitational wraps up Day2 !
LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 2 of the girls 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitational Super 16 bracket.Here are your four quarterfinal championship game reports.SUPER 16TOP SIDE DRAWHOLY CROSS 83 LANGLEY CHRISTIAN 64By HOWARD TSUMURAVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — ‘Deep and dangerous’ is a basketball descriptor that tends to get overused, but not when you’re talking about Surrey’s Holy Cross […]
FINAL: TBI 2025 Select 16 Quarterfinal game reports are here! Tsumura Basketball Invitational wraps up Day 2!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 2 of the girls 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitational Select 16 bracket.We’ve gone final with all four game reports from our quarterfinal round contests.SELECT 16TOP SIDE DRAWFERNIE 45 SIR CHARLES TUPPER 29By IAN FRENCH(Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — There’s the calm before the storm, but what happens after? Well, for the […]