Less than a full year removed from playing his final high school game with East Van's Notre Dame Jugglers, Simon Fraser freshman cornerback Jerrell Cummings (8) came into Saturday's GNAC clash against Western Oregon tied for the conference lead in passes defended this season. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Simon Fraser Clan athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Simon Fraser football 2019: Greenhouse growth spirals among Clan freshmen like cornerback Jerrell Cummings

BURNABY — He caught a touchdown pass on the turf at B.C. Place Stadium in his final high school game last Nov. 17 for East Vancouver’s Notre Dame Jugglers.Late Saturday afternoon, less than 365 days after that 35-21 Subway Bowl quarterfinal round loss to the Terry Fox Ravens, Jerrell Cummings walked off the field at […]

Seaquam Seahawks' quarterback Jay Mather threw four TD passes in his team's regular-season finale on Saturday. Next week, he'll face the defending B.C. AAA champion Mt. Douglas Rams as Subway Bowl 2019 officially kicks off its one-month run to the B.C. title game. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Subway Bowl’s 2019 opening-round schedule: We’ve got the full opening-round match-ups set to run Nov. 8-9!

LANGLEY — Final dates, times, locations and venues are still to be confirmed by the B.C. Secondary Schools Football Association, but here are the opening-round matchups for Subway Bowl’s 2019 playoff season set to run this coming Friday and Saturday (Nov. 8-9) at sites around the province.TRIPLE A(Note — Eastern and Western conference champions each […]

Abbotsford head coach Jay Fujimura will have plenty of instructions for his Grade 11 quarterback Austin Martin this week as the Panthers prepare to face the Notre Dame Jugglers in the opening round of the Subway Bowl playoffs. On Saturday, Abby beat Mission to complete the 2019 BCHSF regular season. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ Saturday night B.C. High School Football Report 11.02.19 regular-season finale edition

LANGLEY — Welcome to the Saturday edition of Varsity Letters’ B.C. High School Football Report.Check back with us throughout the course of the evening for results from the final day of regular-season play in the 2019 season.We’ve indicated playoff matchups throughout the following report and we will soon post the complete AA and AAA draw. […]

John Barsby head coach Rob Stevenson liked the intensity his team showed Friday, closing out its regular season with a win over the Windsor Dukes. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ 11.01.19 , Friday Night Lights B.C. High School Football Report

LANGLEY — We have gone final with reports from all of tonight’s games. Remember, the regular season also includes action on Saturday so check back with us later in the day for the final regular-season reports of 2019.FRIDAYTRIPLE AEASTERN CONFERENCENo. 4 LORD TWEEDSMUIR 14 at No. 5 ST. THOMAS MORE 34BURNABY — You know what […]

Simon Fraser's Ozi Nwabuko (centre) went 6-for-6 from the field Friday in the Clan's season-opening loss to the Drury Panthers of Missouri, the No. 1-ranked team in all of NCAA Div. 2 women's hoops. (File photo by Brad McLeod property of SFU Athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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SFU hoops: Clan lead with their Hart, but even Claudia Hart’s first career double-double not enough against NCAA D2’s No. 1 Drury Panthers

The Simon Fraser Clan said they wanted to start their 2019-20 women’s basketball season against the best competition they could find.On Friday, they quite literally got just that.Junior forward Claudia Hart put forth her first career double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds, however the Clan had a hard time early coming to grips with […]

What a week for the West Point Grey Academy girls volleyball team. After winning the Independent Schools Association title, the Wolves moved from non-ranked status to No. 6 in the latest B.C. senior girls AA Top 10 poll. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Girls Volleyball Rankings 10.31.19: OKM’s Huskies new Triple A No. 1, things looking up for Semiahmoo, WPGA and York House

LANGLEY —Surrey’s Semiahmoo Totems climbed two spots into the top four of the B.C. senior girls Quad-A volleyball rankings this week, while North Delta’s Seaquam Seahawks found their way back into the Top 10 after a one-week absence.At Triple A, Kelowna’s Okanagan Mission Huskies moved into the No. 1 slot at Triple A following its […]

Last season, Lord Tweedsmuir defeated STM 27-21 early in the Eastern Conference season at LT. This season, when the same two teams meet, the Eastern Conference title will be up for grabs. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Varsity Letter’s B.C. High School Football Weekend Survival Guide 10.31.19 edition: Top 5 games, schedules, rankings, scoreboards

LANGLEY — Once again, here’s your survival guide to the weekend ahead in B.C. high school football.Keep in mind, it’s the final slate of regular-season games with four weeks of Subway Bowl playoff action set to follow!We’ve got our Top 5 Games of the Week, as well as the full schedule by tier and conference. […]

Trinity Western's new plug-and-play guard Ja’Qualyn Gilbreath showed in the preseason that he is capable of filling it up. (Photo by Scott Stewart property of Trinity Western athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Trinity Western men’s basketball: Who are these guys? With 10 newcomers and a first-year head coach, Spartans begin new adventure Friday at TRU

LANGLEY — It’s hard to paint the precise picture that best captures the state of the 2019-20 Trinity Western Spartans men’s basketball team.First, you start with the basics: A team coming off an 0-20 conference season a year ago, with a brand new head coach and 10 new players, many of whom had likely never […]

Greyson Planinsic (left) and Michael Udoh comprise B.C.'s most devastating offensive backfield. (Photo by Alan Wardle property of New Westminster Hyacks football 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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New West’s dynamic RB duo: With Greyson Planinsic and Michael Udoh, the whole & the heart of these Hyacks always greater than the sum of its parts

NEW WESTMINTSER — Their running styles are a study in contrasts, and the length and the breadth of their respective resumes couldn’t be any more different.Yet the bottom line in the New Westminster locker room following every Hyacks football game this season is the single-mindedness which drives every post-game gab-fest between running backs Greyson Planinsic […]

Argyle senior Christian Wels-Lopez has been the defensive catalyst of North Vancouver's No. 6-ranked Argyle Pipers. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of UBC athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Argyle boys volleyball: On the road to a B.C. AAA breakthrough season, North Van’s No. 6-ranked Pipers find their own way to seize the day

NORTH VANCOUVER — With seniors like Christian Wels-Lopez, Eric Roundhill and cannon-armed Colby Soolsma there is a veteran-laden side to the Argyle Pipers’ senior boys volleyball team that is hard to miss.