Welcome to Day 1 of the 2021 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.This is our final edition with wrap-ups on all four games played tonight at the Langley Events Centre including Byrne Creek’s OT win over GW Graham. It’s all below. First, tomorrow’s draw.TOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT A6:15 p.m. — Burnaby South vs. Byrne Creek (centre court)8 p.m. — […]
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B.C. Boys High School Basketball rankings 12.07.21: Changes galore as first five days of games play huge role in re-shaping Top 10 polls!
LANGLEY — As expected, after our cancelled 2020-21 season, the task of compiling preseason Top 10s for B.C. senior boys basketball proved to be a challenging feat at most tiers.Here’s where things stand after a five-day window of 2021-22 opening games across the province at all four tiers.SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Burnaby South Rebels (5-0) (FN) […]
TBI 2021.. the final draw! Owls forced to withdraw, St. Thomas More joins the party as 10th annual Tsumura Basketball Invitational tips off Wednesday at the LEC!
LANGLEY — The 10th annual Tsumura Basketball 20-team boys Invitational is set to tip off Wednesday, and it’s the start of four exciting days of hoops at the Langley Events Centre.We are once again publishing the tournament draw as a key cancellation has resulted in a couple of different match-ups over the first few days […]
A SUNDAY MEMORIAM: As Dover Bay girls volleyball prepares to host BC Quad-A’s, late teammate Michelle Reilly continues to inspire her Dolphins through tough times!
If only there was a way to measure the actual heartbeat of the B.C. senior girls Quad-A high school volleyball championship tournament set for first serve this Thursday in Nanaimo.Awarded, cancelled, re-awarded, postponed, rescheduled, very nearly cancelled again, and earlier this week, re-instated to all of its original glory, you could almost say that it […]
Subway Bowl 2021 gets its fitting finale! G.W. Graham Grizzlies edge Terry Fox Ravens 36-33 as BC high school football closes out a sizzling playoff season!
VANCOUVER — It happened somewhere around the time that Tyson Kelly picked up a bad point-after snap and ran it into the end zone for a two-point convert.Midway through the first quarter of Saturday’s Subway Bowl B.C. AAA Coastal final, Kelly and the rest of Chilliwack’s G.W. Graham Grizzlies had answered a game-opening touchdown drive […]
Carson Graham mounts goal-line stand in OT, and in an epic Subway Bowl AA win over Robert Bateman it’s the fraction which decides a battle for the ages!
VANCOUVER — The longest yard.That’s what it came down to Saturday night at B.C. Place Stadium as the football gods pitted two incredibly talented and evenly-matched teams in a battle for the Subway Bowl B.C. Double A Coastal championship title.In a game that went to overtime, North Vancouver’s Carson Graham Eagles got a goal-line stand […]
Key fourth-quarter plays lift Bulldogs past Eagles, John Barsby gets all it can handle from Carson Graham in Subway Bowl AA JV Coastal finale!
VANCOUVER — It was a game filled with enough highlight-reel scoring plays to stuff an entire season-long hype video.But in the end, two huge plays wound up being the difference as Nanaimo’s John Barsby Bulldogs outscored the Carson Graham Eagles of North Vancouver 34-28 to capture the Subway Bowl B.C. AA junior varsity Coastal championship […]
Kelowna holds on to edge Vernon, Owls’ last-second tackle thwarts Panthers in dramatic 21-20 Interior/Subway Bowl final!
VERNON — The Kelowna defence came up with their play of the year to end their season on Friday, and it was a team tackle which lifted the Owls to a 21-20 win over the Vernon Panthers for the Subway Bowl B.C. Interior/Northern championship title.Trailing 21-14 with 1:17 to go in the fourth quarter, Panthers’ […]
Football to the power of two: Carson Graham builds strength in numbers as Eagles’ senior and junior teams, season-long practice mates, each vie Saturday for Subway Bowl AA titles!
NORTH VANCOUVER — Ask Brian Brady what all the buzz is about these days within the football program at Carson Graham Secondary, and the Eagles’ head coach can’t help but speak in the most literal sense possible.“We’re in the dome last week against Langley, it’s late in the game and the phone in my pocket […]
A Bateman, ready for framing: In Subway Bowl’s championship week, here’s why this photograph stands for the true meaning of high school football!
VANCOUVER — It was a picture that made me feel good from the second I saw it.Perhaps, in the run up to this coming Saturday’s 4 p.m. Subway Bowl B.C. Double-A Coastal championship final between North Vancouver’s Carson Graham Eagles and Robert Bateman of Abbotsford, you saw it, too.In the photo, taken by Bateman team […]