By Howard Tsumura(VarsityLetters.ca)LANGLEY — The Tsumura Basketball Invitational is once again proud to help usher in a new season of B.C. senior boys and girls high school basketball.The 2025-26 campaign will only be in its second week of play when the TBI begins a two-week run at the Langley Events Centre with our senior boys […]
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A Sunday Read: The ‘dream-like’ journey of St. George’s B.C. Quad-A MVP Dorian Glogovac! His 53-point Final Four outing sets new senior boys top-tiered provincial championship-side record!
By HOWARD TSUMURAVarsity LettersLANGLEY — If you watched the way Dorian Glogovac played over the final four games of his high school career earlier this month at the B.C. senior boys Quad-A basketball championships, you’d almost swear that he was performing in some kind of dream state.And maybe that isn’t too far from the truth, […]
B.C. BOYS QUAD-A FINAL: How the simple act of plugging players into a zone offence proved revelatory in Spectrum’s historic title win over Dover Bay! Thunder now Island’s first top-tier repeat champs in 51 years!
BY HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — There was no time to stand still.The season-long battle between No. 1 Spectrum and No. 2 Dover Bay, one which ultimately manifested itself for a fifth and final time as the finale to an incredible 2024-25 B.C. senior boys basketball season, never pretended, for even a second, to be anything […]
The Mighty Wolves of Windsor: After a 1-3 start to the season, a near-peerless three month, 30-game streak carries North Van’s Triple-A ‘unknowns’ to school’s first-ever B.C. senior boys championship hoops title!
By HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — The origin story of the mighty Wolves of Windsor might best be told along the lines of some script in development for the next big supernatural teen drama series.Set amongst the towering Douglas Fir, within a secret den somewhere amongst the vast expanse of North Vancouver’s Lynn Canyon Park, a […]
Wait, you must! The old guy at Varsity Letters needs a day of rest! B.C. Triple- and Double-A boys championship game stories are on the way
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY — Spend a couple of weeks sitting at the press tables of South Court, Centre Court and Arena Bowl at the Langley Events Centre and the idea of returning home to some much-missed creature comforts on a full-time basis is enough to make an old scribe start to yawn, sit down […]
Behind MVP Judah Ashbee, Pac Academy completes BC 2A championship mission! Next up? Breakers hoopsters leave on true mission of mercy
NO. 1 PACIFIC ACADEMY 80 NO. 2 SUMMERLAND 69By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – I’ve written this before, but my good friend Howard Tsumura can write lyrically on this website about any number of ways that basketball can be a metaphor for life and a conduit to bring together diverse groups of teenage […]
A 24-year pursuit of B.C. Single-A title ends for St. John’s coach Jon Kinman as Eagles top Unity for school’s first-ever hoops crown!
NO 1. ST. JOHN’S 87 NO. 3 UNITY CHRISTIAN 82By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – St. John’s Eagles, the little school that could, finally found its big moment Saturday, slaying the dragon that is boys high school basketball Single A powerhouse Unity Christian for a first-ever B.C. title.Tucked into Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood, the […]
FINAL: 03.07.25 Day 3 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior boys QUAD-A Final Four semifinal round!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Varsity Letters’ coverage of the 79th annual B.C. Senior Boys Basketball Championships here at the Langley Events Centre.No. 1 Spectrum will face No. 2 Dover Bay for the B.C. title Saturday (7:45 p.m.) at the Langley Event Centre’s Arena Bowl.Here’s our two game reports from Final Four Friday:Thanks for your patience […]
FINAL: 03.07.25 Day 3 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior boys DOUBLE-A Final Four semifinal round!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Varsity Letters’ coverage of the 79th annual B.C. Senior Boys Basketball Championships here at the Langley Events Centre.No. 1 Pacific Academy will face No. 2 Summerland for the B.C. title Saturday (2:45 p.m.) at the Langley Event Centre’s Arena Bowl.Here’s our two game reports from Final Four Friday:Thanks for your patience […]
FINAL: 03.07.25 Day 3 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior boys TRIPLE-A Final Four semifinal round!
LANGLEY — Welcome to Varsity Letters’ coverage of the 79th annual B.C. Senior Boys Basketball Championships here at the Langley Events Centre.No. 1 St. Thomas More will face No. 2 Windsor for the B.C. title Saturday (5:15 p.m.) at the Langley Event Centre’s Arena Bowl.Here’s our two game reports from Final Four Friday:Thanks for your […]