6 days Ago By Langley Advance Times Staff
Two top-ranked 4A girls’ basketball teams, North Delta's Seaquam Seahawks and Langley's Brookswood Bobcats, met for the first time on Saturday night, Dec. 14, in the finals of the Tsumura Basketball Invitational Girls Tournament Super 16 Bracket. Previous to the Langley Events Centre game, each had won their respective tiers at last March’s B.
C. School Sports Girls Basketball Provincial Championships. And while the Seaquam Seahawks led by as many as 20 points early in the second half against the Brookswood Bobcats, Seahawks coach Lucky Toor knew the game was far from over.
A 3-pointer from Brookswood’s Jordyn 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.” Nohr was named the Most Valuable Player following her 50-point effort. 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..
