Seaquam's Syra Toor (right) is guarded by Riverside's Henna Virk during TBI Super 16 Day 3 action 12.13.24 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI GIRLS 2024 Final 4 Friday is a wrap! No. 1 Seaquam vs. No. 2 Brookswood for all the Super 16 marbles!

Welcome to Final Four Friday.We’ve got reports from both of today’s Tsumura Basketball Invitational Super 16 semifinals right here.Check back with us throughout the day as we set up Championship Saturday’s title game.SEAQUAM 79 RIVERSIDE 66LANGLEY — If you can shoot it, really shoot it, nothing can stop you.That may be Basketball 101 stripped to […]

Notre Dame's Lyla Mach exemplifies the physical nature of the Jugglers' clash with Gillian Galik (21), Janel Follis and the rest of the Mark Isfeld Ice during TBI Super 16 Day 3 action 12.13.24 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI GIRLS 2024 Final 4 Friday is a wrap! Notre Dame vs. Duchess Park for Select 16 title!

Welcome to Final Four Friday.We’ve got reports from both of today’s Tsumura Basketball Invitational Select 16 semifinals right here.Check back with us throughout the day as we set up Championship Saturday’s title game.NOTRE DAME 52 MARK ISFELD 36LANGLEY — In a little media pre-game chat, Notre Dame head coach Tracy Clarke offered a reporter a […]

South Kamloops' Kiera Macintosh (centre) is bookended by Notre Dame Jugglers Angela Soriano and Lyla Machduring TBI Super 16 Day 2 action 12.12.24 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL: TBI Select 16 quarters produce Notre Dame-Isfeld, Vernon-Duchess card for Final Four Friday!

Welcome to Day 2 of TBI girls 2024!We’re on to the quarterfinals today in the Select 16 poolPlease check back througHout the day as Nic Hauka covers the day’s four championship round games!NOTRE DAME 50 SOUTH KAMLOOPS 28(STORY BY NICOLAS HAUKA, Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — The old saying defence wins championships is cliche, but […]

Argyle's Mariia Mayden shone with a game-high 38 points against the Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers during TBI Super 16 Day 2 action 12.12.24 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL: TBI Super 16 quarters produce Argyle-Brookswood, Seaquam-Riverside card for Final Four Friday!

LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 2 of TBI girls 2024!We’re on to the quarterfinals today in the Super 16 poolPlease check back throughout the day as Howard Tsumura covers the day’s four championship round games!ARGYLE 90 LORD TWEEDSMUIR 74  LANGLEY — If the Argyle Pipers do not have the greatest overall wingspan of any team in […]

Jarrah Chadwick-Rupp of the Oak Bay Bays guards Dover Bay point guard Joe Linder during championship game action at the Kodiak Classic Invitational hosted 11.30.24 by Heritage Woods Secondary School in Port Moody. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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12.11.24 edition: BC Boys Top 10 Hoops rankings! Semi, Fox make 4A climb, STM takes over as AAA No. 1

LANGLEY — Here are the second set of B.C. boys high school in-season basketball rankings.BASKETBALLTOP 10 RANKINGSB.C. SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Spectrum Thunder (Saanich) (VI) (LW-1)2 Dover Bay Dolphins (Nanaimo) (VI) (2)3 Oak Bay Bays (Victoria) (VI) (3)4 Vancouver College Fighting Irish (VSS) (4)5 St. George’s Saints (Vancouver) (VSS) (5)6 Tamanawis Wildcats (Surrey) (SF) (6)7 Semiahmoo […]

Notre Dame Jugglers' Lylah Mach (left) battles through the defence of Maple Ridge's Munat Badhan during Day 1 action in the TBI Select 16 bracket Dec. 4, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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SELECT 16 FINAL: Our complete wrap up from Day 1 TBI GIRLS 2024!

LANGLEY — Welcome girls basketball fans!Day 1 of the TBI Select 16 draw is upon us.Please keep checking back throughout the day as we do our best to update this post with live games reports.We will try to get photos from as many games as we can, but there are no guarantees.Thanks for following along, […]

Semiahmoo's Grade 10 star Jaida Claypool takes on the Quad-A No. 3-ranked Riverside Rapids during Day 1 action in the TBI Super 16 bracket Dec. 4, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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SUPER 16 FINAL: Our complete wrap up from Day 1 TBI GIRLS 2024!

LANGLEY — Welcome girls basketball fans!Day 1 of the TBI Super 16 draw is upon us.Please keep checking back throughout the day as we do our best to update this post with live games reports.We will try to get photos from as many games as we can, but there are no guarantees.Thanks for following along, […]

St. Pat's Jericho Labrador (left) drives on Vancouver College's Lucas Tan-Ngo during 2024 B.C. junior boys semifinal last February at the Langley Events Centre. Both teams are back in the junior top 10 this week. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Junior Boys Basketball Top 10: First in-season poll has St. George’s, Argyle, New West and Van College the early Final Four pick when JV fever hits LEC’s 32-team tourney Feb. 22-25!

The B.C. Junior Boys Basketball Association checks in with its first poll of the season.It’s the start of the run-up to to the 2025 B.C. invitational championship at the Langley Events Centre Feb. 22-25.Last season’s champions from Terry Fox Secondary in PoCo are now competing at the senior varsity level and opened some eyes this […]

Seaquam's Syra Toor splits the defence of the Yale Lions during Day 3 Final Four play at the 2024 B.C. senior girls basketball championships March 1, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Dan Kinvig 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Girls 2024: As Quad-A B.C. champ Seaquam finally achieves its ‘veteran’ status, North Delta’s Seahawks bring new level of maturity as Super 16’s No. 1-seeded team!

NORTH DELTA — For it’s entire existence as an up-and-coming group of hoops wunderkinds, the Seaquam Seahawks have had a built-in motivation to carve a niche of their own in the B.C. girls basketball world.Checks its roster from the B.C. junior champs of 2022 right through the B.C. senior Quad-A champs of this past season, […]

Last season at TBI 2023, Brookswood's Jordyn Nohr (left) scored 44 points to lead Brookswood to an overtime win over Jenna Talib and the Mulgrave Titans. This season's she and Cats are back at the LEC, seeded on the opposite side of the draw from North Delta's Seaquam Seahawks. (Photo by Ryan Molag property of Langley Events Centre 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Girls 2024: Our strongest field ever is filled with schools from latest Top 10 rankings! It’s 9 of 10 AAAA, 5 of 7 AAA, 7 of 8 AA and 1A’s Top 2! Are you ready?

LANGLEY —The first potential showdown between the top two teams in the most recent B.C. senior girls high school Top 10 Quad-A rankings.(See full Top 10s for all four tiers below)A tournament weekend beginning its four-day run Wednesday with 23 of its 32 total teams occupying Top 10 spots between the province’s four tiers of […]