LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2026 B.C. senior girls Single-A basketball championship, coming to you from the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here reguarly as our team of writers provide first-hand game coverage from the eight sudden-elimination games being contested at this tier.Thanks for your loyalty!Howard TsumuraSINGLE A (AT R.E. MOUNTAIN)NO. […]
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02.25.26 Day 1 reports from the 2026 B.C. senior girls QUAD-A Sweet 16!
LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2026 B.C. senior girls QUAD-A basketball championship, coming to you from the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here regularly as our team of writers provide first-hand game coverage from the eight sudden-elimination games being contested at this tier.Thanks for your loyalty!Howard TsumuraDAY 1QUAD AROUND OF 16RIVERSIDE […]
02.25.26 Day 1 reports from the 2026 B.C. senior girls TRIPLE-A Sweet 16!
LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2026 B.C. senior girls Triple-A basketball championship, coming to you from the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here reguarly as our team of writers provide first-hand game coverage from the eight sudden-elimination games being contested at this tier.Thanks for your loyalty!Howard TsumuraTRIPLE ANO. 2 LANGLEY CHRISTIAN […]
02.25.26 Day 1 reports from the 2026 B.C. senior girls DOUBLE-A Sweet 16!
LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2026 B.C. senior girls Double-A basketball championship, coming to you from the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here reguarly as our team of writers provide first-hand game coverage from the eight sudden-elimination games being contested at this tier.Thanks for your loyalty!Howard TsumuraDOUBLE ANO. 2 CREDO CHRISTIAN […]
BC Jr. Boys Final: Van College tops Burnaby South to capture crown, cap perfect 34-0 season as MVP Koen Li leads the way!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY TOWNSHIP — One of the greatest B.C. junior boys basketball champions of all-time?Even if the fantasy archive with all of the answers actually existed, the one where every score of every game of every season for the past 56 years had been recorded for posterity, so much of it would still […]
On the eve of tip-off 2026, STMC girls coach Cassie Lauang on appreciating both the teaching and learning moments in a most magical time!
(Editor’s preface — There is a no mistaking the special feeling that is in the air on the eve of the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships.St. Thomas More Knights senior girls basketball head coach Cassie Lauang reflected on some of those, and they are the kinds of moments that every coach leading a […]
Jr. Boys Final Four: On a night when team defence carries the day, No. 1 Irish reach new level in win over No. 4 Brookswood Bobcats!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY TOWNSHIP — When you play maybe the best basketball game out of your entire season on its biggest and brightest stage yet, and it happens to push your overall record to 33-0, hyperbole can sometimes be your own worst enemy.A head coach must always pick and choose his post-game words with […]
Jr. Boys Final Four: No. 2 Burnaby South’s defensive switch flips script on No. 3 Holy Cross, Rebels win 76-64 to earn place in Tuesday’s BC final!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.ca(Editor’s note — due to the ticking of the clock, older sportswriters must first get their proper sleep. Apologies, but the Vancouver College-Brookswood game report will hopefully materialize with the morning rooster! Hopefully not too much later. Here’s my Burnaby South-Holy Cross report. — Howard)LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Junior varsity basketball games may, at […]
BC Jr. Quarters: Holy Cross on its road to redemption from last season’s upset loss! No. 3 Crusaders top No. 6 Van Tech for first-ever Final Four berth!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersTOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY — Last season, as No. 6 seeds in the B.C. junior boys basketball championships, Surrey’s Holy Cross Crusaders had any thoughts of a deep run to tournament glory dashed on the first day of the competition.In hindsight, losing to No. 27-seeded Lambrick Park was a classic case of underestimating […]
BC Jr. Quarters: Late surge of local lightning bottled by Langley’s No. 4 Brookswood Bobcats who top No. 5 Heritage Woods to book Final Four passage!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersTOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY — Tyson Kenyon, Mason Nohr and the rest of the hometown Brookswood Bobcats spent virtually the entire game trying to rattle the equilibrium of their foes from Port Moody, the Heritage Woods Kodiaks.Yet it wasn’t until the final two minutes of play Sunday that the 6-foot-3 Grade 10 forward […]