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91Ô­´´â€™s Brookswood Bobcats take bronze at Tsumura Basketball Invitational Girls Tournament

Abbotsford’s M.E.I. Eagles and Seaquam Seahawks get gold in respective brackets

Two 91Ô­´´ schools made it to the bronze medal round of the four-day 2023 Tsumura Basketball Invitational Girls Tournament that wrapped up Saturday, Dec. 16 at 91Ô­´´ Events Centre.

Playing in the Super 16 bracket third-place game, 91Ô­´´â€™s Brookswood Bobcats won a 68-60 victory over the Burnaby Central Wildcats, while in the Select 16 bracket, Surrey’s Holy Cross Crusaders edged 91Ô­´´â€™s Walnut Grove Gators 58-55.

The 32-team tournament, split into a pair of 16-team brackets, saw Abbotsford’s M.E.I. Eagles capture the Select 16 title over Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Collegiate Knights 79-70, while in the Super 16 championship game, Delta’s Seaquam Seahawks were 74-68 winners over Port Coquitlam’s Riverside Rapids.

Seaquam, the No. 3 seed from the BC School Sports 4A level, punched their ticket to the final with a semifinal Super 16 bracket victory over Brookswood, which came into the tournament as the top-rtanked 3A team.

Seaquam built an early 14-4 lead in the semifinal and never looked back.

For Brookswood, a pair of Grade 9s led the way as Ashley Vande Ven had 16 and Jordyn Nohr scored 14 points, respectively.

In the Select 16 semifinal, St. Thomas More Collegiate Knights defeated Walnut Grove Gators 51-40 in a turnaround win that saw the Knights come back after falling behind 36-29, by rattling off 22 consecutive points – including six three pointers.

Gators received 15 points from forward Lyla McKay and another 10 from guard Kyanna Knodel.

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