The sa国际传媒 Triple-A championships open today at the Langley Events Centre with a matchup between two teams who need little introduction when it comes to girls鈥� high school basketball.
Coach Rob Kinnear鈥檚 Island-champion Oak Bay Breakers, ranked No. 6, and perennial power Brookswood Bobcats of Langley, ranked No. 3, meet in the feature opening-round game at noon.
The Island runner-up Claremont Spartans meet the Riverside Rapids of Port Coquitlam at 3:30 p.m. Coach Darren Reisig鈥檚 Spartans feature six Grade 12 players 鈥� including stars Sierra Reisig, Maddie Manns and Chloe Scaber 鈥� who have come up together and hope to have career peaks when it counts most at provincials.
鈥淚鈥檓 sure it will be emotional, but I told the players to focus on the task,鈥� Reisig said. 鈥淎nd to focus on the opportunity and enjoy it.鈥�
Riverside edged Claremont by four points in a meeting this season.
鈥淚t will be a good, even game,鈥� Reisig said of the opener.
鈥淲e are not big, so we need to stay disciplined, shoot well and play defence as a team.鈥�
The Kelowna Owls go into the Triple-A provincial tournament as the top seed.
Meanwhile, the St. Michaels University School Blue Jags open the sa国际传媒 girls鈥� Double A basketball championships today against St. Thomas Aquinas of North Vancouver at 5:15 p.m. The Mark Isfeld Ice of Courtenay meet the Britannia Bruins of Vancouver at 8:15 p.m.
Both the Triple-A and Double-A tournaments continue through the week at LEC to the championship games on Saturday night.
