VANCOUVER — Ask Kevin Hanson what he finds most special about his most recent high school recruit and he instantly captures the essence of St. Thomas More Knights’ senior Zeru Abera.“It’s a tough thing to teach anyone how to be clutch in a basketball game, especially at the end of the game, and then to […]
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A Sunday Read: For Dover Bay’s TBI Super 16 champ Dolphins, why an honorary assist to Taylor Swift and a ‘no-cell phone’ policy symbolize a truly holistic hoops weekend!
LANGLEY — When the Dover Bay Dolphins senior boys basketball team prints up its final 2024-25 season statistics this March, they may want to add one new name to the box score even though she never played for the team.The name?Taylor Swift.The stat?One assist.Even though the pop icon had the nerve to no-show for the […]
TBI 2024 Super 16 Semis: So just how did underdog St. Thomas More upset Vancouver College? Here’s the empowering details!
LANGLEY — The St. Thomas More Knights of 2024-25 first gained their notiriety in the B.C. high school basketball world by winning the junior provincial title in 2023 as the No. 11 seed in the massive event’s 32-team bracket.As that tournament’s history will tell you, it’s not always a translateable guarantee of success at the […]
TBI 2023’s Championship Saturday: Heart of a champion still beating as B.C. 2A champ King George tops STM Knights for Select 16 title!
TBI 2023 SELECT 16 CHAMPIONSHIP FINALKING GEORGE 76 ST. THOMAS MORE 64LANGLEY — Darko Kulic admitted that he barely slept on Friday night.Curiosity got the better of the head coach of the varsity boys basketball team at Vancouver’s King George Secondary after his Dragons moved themselves into the Select 16 championship game against Burnaby’s St. […]
STM’s Tarrence Booker: A rarity in this day and age, Knights’ Fraser North AAA MVP says: “Social media doesn’t really equate to how good a player really is”
LANGLEY — It was the kind of moment that a kid named Booker (T. Book to his friends) has learned to read all too well over the course of his high school basketball career.On Sunday afternoon, as the Fraser North Triple-A senior boys basketball championship game wound its way to what everyone at the Langley […]
Tray bien! Tamanawis’ budding superstar Tray Belanger takes ‘giant steps’ in leading ‘Cats past Kodiaks and into tonight’s B.C. Junior boys title tilt!
No. 1 TAMANAWIS 69 No. 12 HERITAGE WOODS 55LANGLEY — On Monday night, just past the midway mark of the second quarter, at a juncture of the biggest basketball game of both teams’ season, it took but a second for one player to remind us all that he was ready to take on all comers.Tray […]
Goulet Chancellor Memorial 2023: Eesher Sarai plenty big enough to meet the challenge as Fleetwood Park edges St. Pat’s for Dragons’ first-ever tourney title at STMC!
BURNABY — B.C.’s No. 5-ranked Quad-A senior boys basketball team is playing up to its provincial pedigree, and that means a lot of good things have been coming the way of the Fleetwood Park Dragons.On Saturday, the Surrey squad achieved a program first, defeating Vancouver’s St. Patrick Celtics 71-68 in the championship final of the […]
The Rich Goulet Chancellor Memorial ’23: After two cancelled seasons, a grandaddy of B.C. hoop tourneys returns, its own fighter’s mentality not unlike its new namesake and foundational father!
BURNABY — They say that all great traditions, through the passing of time, seem to somehow take on the strongest characteristics of their creators.Early Wednesday afternoon, as he walked out of St. Thomas More Collegiate’s packed and deafening gymnasium having just coached the school’s first senior boys Chancellor tournament game in two years, Aaron Mitchell […]
Tsumura Basketball 2022: We’ve gone final for Day 1 of the TBI Super 16 draw! Game reports, photos and Thursday’s schedule are all here!
LANGLEY — We are complete here after Day 1 at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational’s senior boys Super 16 draw.THURSDAYQUARTERFINALS (all games at Centre Court)3:30 p.m. — Kelowna vs. St. Patricks5 p.m. — Burnaby South vs. Enver Creek6:45 p.m. — Vancouver College vs. Fleetwood Park8:15 p.m. — Oak Bay vs. Sir Winston ChurchillWEDNESDAY’S GAMESVANCOUVER COLLEGE 83 […]
WE’RE COMPLETE! DAY 1 at Tsumura Basketball 2022: Complete game reports from our senior boys Rising 8 draw!
We are now complete after Day 1 of the inaugural Rising 8 bracket here at the 2022 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.SCHEUDLETHURSDAYSEMIFINALS(games at South Court)6:45 p.m.– Spectrum vs. Lord Byng8:15 p.m. — Steveston London vs. North DeltaFor a complete report of the Local 8 tournament, please go to the bottom of this story for a filing from […]