St. Patricks' Riley Santa Juana splits the defence of Caleb Gomez (left) and Luka Guzina during TBI Super 16 championship final played Dec. 6, 2025 at the Langley Event Centre's South Court. (Photo by Jacob Mallari property of Langley Events Centre 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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In a TBI Super 16 final with a ‘pick your poison’ plot line, St. Pats maximize personnel to top Tammy in battle of No. 1’s!

ST. PATRICKS 78 TAMANAWIS 72By HOWARD TSUMURALANGLEY — We may live in an era of three-point shooting, yet what if a head coach, over the course of devising his team’s defensive game plan decides that there is actually an even bigger threat present than a wide-open, wide-eyed shooter with the green light to let it […]

Miguel Tomley, pictured scoring two of his game-high 66 points in the final game of his B.C. high school career in March of 2018, is spending this season in Ontario at RISE Academy, prepping for a Div. 1 career set to begin this fall at Santa Clara. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2018. All Rights Reserved)
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From Surrey to Santa Clara: Tammy’s superstar grad Miguel Tomley preps his game for sudden impact at Nash’s alma mater

SURREY — If you watched the way in which Miguel Tomley closed out his senior season last March, you would be correct in stating that only a handful of others in the long history of B.C. boys high school basketball were as ready to start an NCAA Div. 1 basketball career as the Tamanawis Wildcats’ […]

Former Tamanawis Wildcats' star Sukhjot Bains begins his NCAA Div. 1 basketball career next season at Wisconsin-Green Bay. (Varsity Letters photo by Howard Tsumura)
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Tammy’s Sukh Bains turns three-year hoops odyssey into NCAA Div. 1 future at Wisc-Green Bay

In his senior year of 2013-14, at Surrey’s Tamanawis Secondary, Sukhjot Bains was voted B.C.’s No. 1 senior boys basketball player.

Tamanawis Wildcats' senior guard Kyle Uppal is the blue-chip blueprint of blue-collar importance. (VarsityLetters photo by Howard Tsumura)
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Tammy’s Kyle Uppal: An ode to the glue-guys

SURREY — Watch the B.C. senior boys high school basketball championships each year, and in the sudden-elimination environment that defines the sport’s best March Madness qualities, the efforts of each team’s so-called ‘glue players’ is always magnified.They are the ones who can chip in with offence but are more often than not entrusted with less […]