Terry Fox's Lauren Clements was a worthy Player of the Game pick for her Ravens on Friday in a TBI semifinal win over South Delta. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Hunker down for the Battle of PoCo… it’s No. 1 Terry Fox & No. 6 Riverside in a Saturday night LEC clash for Tsumura Basketball 2021 bragging rights!

LANGLEY — Get ready for the Battle of PoCo!On Saturday (8:30 p.m.), the Langley Events Centre will give B.C. girls high school basketball its last major showcase tournament until at least the start of February on when the Quad-A No. 1 Terry Fox Ravens take on the No. 6 Riverside Rapids.It’s a Port Coquitlam derby […]

South Delta's Alexa Kusel (left) has her lay-up attempt stopped under the hoops by MEI's Jazmin Avila on Friday in a TBI girls quarterfinal game at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Tsumura Girls Basketball 2021: Here’s how Terry Fox, South Delta, Langley Christian and Riverside all found their way to Friday’s Final Four at the LEC!

LANGLEY — Final Four Friday is set here at the 2021 girls Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre.In the 6:45 p.m. opener, Double A No. 1 Langley Christian meets Quad-A No. 6 Riverside.In the 8:15 p.m. finale, No. 1 Quad A Terry Fox battles Quad A No. 10 South Delta.If you want to […]

Yale's Hannah Singh eyes the hoop as she attempt to drive past Brookswood's Sahyna Gill on Thursday during TBI 2021's Sweet 16 round. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION: Tsumura Girls Basketball Day 2 reports: Fox-Churchill, MEI-S. Delta, Riverside-Brookswood, LCS-SMUS as Elite 8 set for Friday!

This is the final wrap from Day 2 of the Girls 2021 Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre.All game reports and photos are below.First, here’s a look at tomorrow’s championship quarterfinals. Remember, semifinals tip at 6:45 and 8:15 p.m. Friday, with Saturday’s final tipping at 8:30 p.m.QUARTERFINALS (All games on Centre Court)TOP HALF […]

Terry Fox's Lauren Clements, Alisha Weloy and Ana-Maria Misic traded in their Ravens garb for a moment this week for a sneak peak of what the trio will look like in UFV Cascades' colours next season. The three are back in uniform tonight as B.C.'s No. 1-ranked Quad-A team opens play at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Dan Kinvig property of University of the Fraser Valley athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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A trio of Ravens sign with Fraser Valley Cascades women’s basketball: Misic, Weloy, Clements chart their Canada West futures together!

LANGLEY — In announcing on Thursday the signing of three players from the B.C. Quad-A No. 1-ranked Terry Fox Ravens senior girls basketball team, Fraser Valley Cascades head coach Al Tuchscherer was posed a question whose answer would speak best to the total impact of incoming the trio.If you were coaching a three-on-three team of […]

South Delta Sun Devils' head coach Sharon Butler shares a happy moment with her team Wednesday during Round 1 of the Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre. On Wednesday night, the latest B.C. Quad-A poll showed her Sun Devils moving from unranked to No. 10 at B.C.'s highest tier, the first time in well over a decade the Tsawwassen squad has sat in a provincial Top 10. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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South Delta Sun Devils move into girls Quad-A rankings as B.C. No. 10, while Fox keeps No. 1 and Churchill surges to No. 4!

LANGLEY — The South Delta Sun Devils, unranked to open the B.C. senior girls Quad-A basketball season, were installed at No. 10 in the latest rankings released Wednesday evening.Those rankings also show Vancouver’s Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs jumping up from No. 10 to No. 4, while the Abbotsford’s Yale Lions move into the Top 10 […]

South Delta's Kaija Rutledge reacts to the physical play Wednesday against Burnaby South in TBI 2021 opening-round play at the LEC. South Delta won 92-23 behind a game-high 18 points from Rutledge. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION Tsumura Basketball 2021 Day 1 complete: Seaquam, MEI, G.W. Graham, S. Delta, Argyle, Tweedsmuir head into Thursday’s Sweet 16!

Welcome to Day 1 of the 2021 Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre.We’ve wrapped it up for the night with reports from all four opening round games, but first, here’s tomorrow’s complete schedule:TOP HALF DRAW (all games at Centre Court)QUAD A6:15 p.m. — Terry Fox vs. Lord Tweedsmuir8 p.m. — Sir Winston Churchill […]

Langley Thunderbirds' head coach Sheldon Guy can no longer see, but with the help of his family and his players, he has endured to continue in the game he loves. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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A profile in courage: Despite losing his sight in late November, Sheldon Guy comes to TBI 2021 ready to coach his Langley Thunderbirds girls basketball team!

LANGLEY — The darkness is still new to Sheldon Guy.Like nothing else he could ever imagine, it came out of nowhere and over the course of about three weeks in late November and early December, it became the thief which stole his sight.There have been some really bad days, and understandably, moments filled with dread […]

The Kelowna Owls celebrate the school's first B.C. senior boys volleyball title in 68 years on Saturday in Richmond. (Photo property of KSS athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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A 68-year drought is over! After 10 straight B.C. trips and five silver medals, Kelowna Owls enjoy the spoils of a 2021 B.C. boys Quad-A volleyball title!

RICHMOND — The Kelowna Owls didn’t have access to a crystal ball and that was a good thing, because instead of knowing every obstacle that was going to be throw its way along what would be an historic championship journey, it simply met each challenge day by day until a 68-year drought had finally been […]

Mt. Douglas' two graduating seniors Becca Pettigrew (left) and Lucy Millam share a moment with Rams' coach Derek Horton after winning the B.C. Triple A title on Saturday. It was coronation day three years in the making. (Photo property of Mt. Douglas athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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After three years of climbing the mountain, Mt. Douglas Rams top Seaton Sonics to reach the peak at B.C. Triple-A senior girls volleyball champs!

OK, so this championship title thing isn’t easy?Four seasons ago, after an unexpected upset loss in its junior zone championship tournament, Mt. Douglas Rams girls volleyball coach Derek Horton remembers taking his heartbroken team aside and telling them that their time would come.“I don’t consider myself a big speech guy, but I just said to […]

McArthur Hilton of Byrne Creek and the rest of the Bulldogs climb one spot to No. 6 in the latest B.C. AAA rankings. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. boys high school basketball rankings 12.14.21 edition: Fleetwood Park, A.R. MacNeill, STM take giants steps up coming off blue-chip TBI performances!

LANGLEY — No. 1 was about the only safe number this past week in B.C.’s four tiers of senior boys high school basketball.Once again, our pollsters have spoken and here are the latest in our second-to-last edition before the holiday break.SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Burnaby South Rebels (10-0) (FN) (LW-1)Last week — Won all four games […]