Riverside's Tessa Burton digs in on defence against Royal Bay's Mikayla Strandberg during opening-round action Thursday at the B.C. senior girls Triple A basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2018. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION! 02.27.19 Day 1 edition from the B.C. senior girls Triple A basketball championships

Thanks for your patience. We have now completed our coverage of Day 1 at the 2019 B.C. Junior Girls Championships. All the game reports follow below, complete with photos, but first, a look at tomorrow’s championship draw schedule.

David Thompson's Maddy Wells (left) comes in hard against South Kamloops' Kendra Kaczur during fourth-quarter action Thursday from the opening round of the B.C. senior girls basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION! 02.27.19 Day 1 edition from the B.C. senior girls Double A basketball championships

LANGLEY — Welcome to the opening day of the B.C. senior girls Double A basketball championships. We’re final for the day with game reports and photos from all eight games:

G.W. Graham Grizzlies' star Deanna Tuchscherer (front) along with Britannia Burins star Surprise Munie (rear) have both been honoured as part of the BCSSGB Baden Super 15 for the 2018-19 season. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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From Abatayo to Wisotzki: We honour B.C.’s Super 15 girls high school basketball players; along with our POY it’s a super Sweet 16!

LANGLEY — Welcome to one of our most anticipated days of the high school sport season.One day before the start of the B.C. senior girls Double-A and Triple-A provincial championship tournaments, the B.C. Secondary School Girls Basketball Association, in conjunction with Varsity Letters, unveils its annual Baden Player of the Year and Top 15 Dream […]

Walnut Grove's Tavia Rowell heads into the B.C. championships on Wednesday as a repeat winner of the BCSSGBA's Player of the Year award. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Walnut Grove’s Tavia Rowell: Coaches, trainers, rivals all applaud B.C.’s Player of the Year repeat winner for her passion and her integrity

LANGLEY — The first girls high school basketball story ever covered under the Varsity Letters masthead? It came on the very first day of our launch (January 31, 2017) and it was all about an amazing Grade 10 basketball player with Langley’s Walnut Grove Gators named Tavia Rowell.

Burnaby South's Karn Aujla was a tower of power Monday, scoring 31 points and leading the Rebels into the B.C. JV title game the second time in three seasons. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2019. All Rights Reserved)
R.A. McMath Wildcats' player exult after Elias Khan's last-second basket carried the Richmond team into Tuesday's B.C. JV final against Burnaby South. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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McMath’s equation of ‘Team, Team, Team’ adds up to OT win over No. 2 VC Irish, now it’s No. 1 Burnaby South in B.C. JV finals

LANGLEY — There’s a memorable line from the classic high school basketball movie Hoosiers that seemed especially apropos Monday night as a classic of playoff game unfolded at the Langley Events Centre.

King David's Solly Khalifa is the senior leader of the Vancouver Single-A senior varsity powerhouse set to open play Tuesday at the Lower Mainland championships. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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A new pride in these Lions! For Vancouver’s Single-A King David, adversity steels the foundation of its growing hoops culture

VANCOUVER — Last March, they were a fourth-quarter away from the first B.C. high school championship Final Four appearance in school history.

Guildford Park's Jas Dhudwal (left) does his best to slow hard-driving Arshia Movassaghi of the Heritage Woods Kodiaks in Sunday's Fraser Valley Quad A sudden-elimination B.C. qualifier. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Port Moody’s Kardiac Kodiaks! Fourth-quarter flurry lifts Heritage Woods past G.P. Sabres and into B.C. boys Quad-A Sweet 16

LANGLEY — This season, the Heritage Woods Kodiaks have been a senior boys basketball team which has kept everyone guessing, including themselves and their coaching staff.

Holy Cross' Uyi Ologhola scored 32 points and was the clear choice as Fraser Valley 4A tourney MVP. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Holy Cross hoopsters are Crusaders for the the ages! Fraser Valley tourney’ swan song 4A final a blow-out win over No. 1 Terry Fox

LANGLEY — Prior to the start of the 2017-18 B.C. high school basketball season, coaches around this province were near-unanimous in their feeling that Surrey’s Holy Cross Crusaders should start the campaign as the province’s preseason Quad-A No. 1 team.

One of the most significant days of UBC's 2018-19 season came before the ball was even tipped off. As was evident Sunday, the off-season signings of Jadon Cohee (left) and Manroop Clair were critical. (Photo by Richard Lam property of UBC athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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With win at Alberta, UBC bound for Final 8 national tourney! Victory magnifies key recruitments of stars Jadon Cohee, Manroop Clair

VANCOUVER — Kevin Hanson has had enough post-season disappointment over the last number of years that he wasn’t going to sugar-coat his emotions.