Giving his Cascades' teammates a pair of shoulders to lean on, UFV's fifth-year senior captain and all-time program scoring leader Gurmaan Jhaj closes out his U Sports' regular-season career this weekend with a playoff berth on the line in the nation's toughest conference. (Photo by Dan Kinvig property of University of the Fraser Valley athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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A Jhaj of greatness: Amidst the emotion of UFV seniors night, Cascades’ all-time scoring leader Gurmaan Jhaj must summon his best game

ABBOTSFORD — Gurmaan Jhaj has brought a rare talent to the fore over the course of his university soccer career with the Fraser Valley Cascades.

South Delta's Lorenzo Mauro (left) tries his best to shake the defensive mar of Panorama Ridge's Sevak Lehal on Tuesday during a South Fraser clash in Tsawwassen won by the visiting, No. 1-ranked Thunder. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Boys High School Soccer Rankings 10.16.19: Thunder, Saints, Blue Devils still the top trio, Royal Bay makes its Top 10-entrance

LANGLEY — Surrey’s Panorama Ridge Thunder continued its roll atop the provincial boys AAA soccer Top 10 rankings for another week. The latest rankings:SENIOR BOYSTRIPLE A1 Panorama Ridge Thunder (Surrey) (LW-1) 2 St. George’s Saints (Vancouver) (2) 3 Dr. Charles Best Blue Devils (Coquitlam) (3)4 Reynolds Roadrunners (Victoria) (4)5 Handsworth Royals (6)6 Moscrop Panthers (Burnaby) (7)7 Argyle […]

Victoria's Claremont Spartans held their ground this past week to remain among the provincial AAAA contenders. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of UBC athletics 2019. All rights reserved)
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B.C. Girls Top 10 Rankings 10.17.19: Seaquam makes its Quad A entrance, Prince George’s Polars make a big Triple A climb

LANGLEY — Here are the latest B.C. senior girls Top 10 volleyball rankings:*At Quad A, it was more time performing in the spotlight for No. 1-ranked Kelowna. The Owls came away victorious in the UBC Okanagan Heat Invitational.The Top 10 had its most stable week of the season with no changes in the Top 10 […]

Kelowna's Jayden Lalonde (right) delivers at the net against Victoria's Claremont Spartans at the recent UBC Invitational. The Owls play host to this week's Best of the West showcase event. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Boys Volleyball Rankings 10.16.19: Fraser Heights, Riverside make their moves in AAA Top 10

LANGLEY — Here are the latest B.C. senior boys high school volleyball rankings.Note — The B.C. boys volleyball commission will rank AAA as Top 15, AA as Top 10 and A as Top 12.Here’s a look at all three tiers:TRIPLE A1 Earl Marriott Mariners (Surrey) (LW-1)2 Kelowna Owls (2) 3 Claremont Spartans (Victoria) (3)4 Mt. Boucherie […]

The building excitement with the 2019 Carihi Tyees senior varsity volleyball team is reflected by the excitement of Shea Watson (2, centre) and teammates (clockwise from right) Reese Davidson, Taya Bideau and Ashton Bruining during the recent UBC Mizuno Invitational. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of UBC athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Carry on, Carihi! Campbell River’s youthful, No. 1-ranked Tyees carry poise, experience in chase for program’s first B.C. title

CAMPBELL RIVER — Make an epic run to the B.C. AAA title match as a No. 8 seed from a school that has never, ever taken home all of the marbles, then fall achingly short of the grand prize?

After scoring his first of two second-half goals, Panorama Ridge's Armaan Bhagwani (left) is congratulated by leaping teammate Sevak Lehal on Tuesday afternoon at Tsawwassen's Winskill Park. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Boys AAA soccer: No. 1 Panorama Ridge blanks No. 9 South Delta 4-0 as dedicated defence leads to goals galore for Surrey’s Thunder

TSAWWASSEN — B.C.’s No. 1-ranked senior boys soccer team lives by its first team rule so well, that it has been allowed to do what just comes naturally.Manmeet Jhutty and Jeevan Dhaliwal scored first-half goals, while Armaan Bhagwani scored a pair in the second half to carry Surrey’s top-rated Panorama Ridge Thunder to a convincing […]

Vancouver College Fighting Irish Jason Soriano (14) and the rest of the Irish defence play host to No. 1 New Westminster on Saturday. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Varsity Letters 10.14.19 BC High School Football Big 5: Hyacks hold No. 1 AAA ahead of visit to No. 3 VC’s O’Hagan Field on Saturday

The leaders held their ground this week at both tiers of B.C. high school football, but with only three more weekends of conference play remaining, just call it the calm before the storm.Here are this week’s updated Varsity Letters’ Big 5 rankings with overall-and-conference records, as well as previous rankings in parenthesis: TRIPLE A1 New Westminster […]

Twenty-three was the magic number Saturday for the Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers, who got a game-winning 65-yard kick-off return from Grade 11 standout Tremel States-Jones in a narrow win at Seaquam. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ Saturday BCHSF Report: Lord Tweedsmuir’s States-Jones is ‘The Answer’ in tight win over Seaquam Seahawks

Welcome to the Saturday edition of Varsity letters’ B.C. High School Football Report. Keep checking back over the course of the day for updates from all games played today around the province.

Taking a well earned breather late in the game on defence, Langley's star running back Kai Thomas rushed for 279 yards and five touchdowns in a big AA win at Robert Bateman on Friday. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ 10.11.19 Friday Night Lights B.C. High School Football Report

Welcome to the Friday Night Lights early edition of Varsity Letters’ B.C. High School Football Report. Keep checking back over the course of the evening for updates from all games played today around the province.

Seaquam's Christian Carlon-Diaz has always been good at making would-be tacklers miss in space. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Christian Carlon-Diaz: No matter how you spell his name, Seaquam Seahawks’ star RB-1 knows there is no ‘I’ in team

NORTH DELTA — The old saying in sports is that there is no ‘I’ in team, and in a manner of speaking, no one lives more to the credo than Seaquam’s Christian Carlon-Diaz.Look up the star running back on the Seahawks’ team roster which is part of bchighschoolfootball.com‘s official website, and for the past three […]