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Langley's Brookswood Bobcats fall in finals at Tsumura girls'

2 top-ranked 4A girls’ basketball teams met Saturday at LEC

Langley's Brookswood Bobcats were defeated 69-65 by North Delta's Seaquam Seahawks in the final of the Tsumura Basketball Invitational Girls Tournament Super 16 Bracket on Saturday night, Dec. 14.

Brookswood’s Jordyn Nohr was named the Most Valuable Player following her 50-point effort.

Going into the Langley Events Centre game, each team had won their respective tiers at last March’s B.C. School Sports Girls Basketball Provincial Championships.

While the Seaquam Seahawks led by as many as 20 points early in the second half against the Bobcats, Seahawks coach Lucky Toor knew the game was far from over.

A 3-pointer from Brookswood’s Nohr tied the score at 63, but on the ensuing possession, Seaquam’s Mackenzie Henderson knocked down a triple of her own. Some clutch free throw shooting and timely rebounding cemented the Seahawks 69-65 win, giving the squad a second consecutive TBI title.

“Of course, there are nerves in a game like this for both sides. They are just kids. We knew that we hadn’t seen their best punch yet and something was coming,” Toor said. “But also at the same time, we wanted to trust these players to make the right decisions when the game was on the line.”

“It is about how you react to them and how you recover.”

Henderson – who led the Seahawks with 24 points – was presented the Championship Player of the Game award.

In the Select 16 final, Prince George’s Duchess Park Condors defeated Vancouver’s Notre Dame Jugglers 66-51.

Sixty-four of the top boys and girls basketball teams from across the province competed at Langley Events Centre over eight days as part of the 2024 Invitational, including teams from Langley, Maple Ridge, Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo, Kelowna, Prince George, and Abbotsford.

The goal of the tournament is to showcase the best high school basketball teams in B.C., with Howard Tsumura, hall-of-fame sports reporter and tournament namesake helping to select the participating teams.

TBI features two 16-team brackets, one for boys and one for girls/

 

 



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