91Ô­´´â€™s Brookswood Bobcats and Walnut Grove Gators both started the 2022 Junior Boys Basketball Provincial Invitational at 91Ô­´´ Events Centre with a win, and had clinched top-10 finishes by the time the event was drawing to a close.

Brookswood, one of the tournament co-hosts and the No. 20 seed, qualified for the quarter-finals, downing Duchess Park 62-43 in their first game Saturday, Feb. 26, then rallying late in the game to edge out Lord Byng 50-48 behind a 27-point effort from Logan Stewart.

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On the same day, Walnut Grove defeated Lord Tweedsmuir 70-36, but in their second outing couldn’t get past Fleetwood Park, who won a narrow 52-51 victory after a Gators rally came up short, missing a shot at the buzzer.

Rohan Dhanoa and Izaec Oppal led the Dragons with 14 points apiece while Walnut Grove’s Joshua Owen-Merriott led all scorers with 18.

On Sunday, the Gators defeated Kelowna 76-66, downed Tamanawis 56-49 on Monday, then defeated Claremont 56-55 on Tuesday to place ninth.

Brookswood was bumped out by Oak Bay on Sunday, who downed the Bobcats 58-49.

The Bobcats pulled to within three points of the Bays at the start of the third quarter, but it would be their only basket of the quarter as Oak Bay reeled off the next 18 points to build a double-digit lead.

LJ Carmichael and Logan Stewart were the top point-getters for the Bobcats.

Stewart and Walnut Grove’s Kaizer Nystrom received honourable mentions in the tournament all-stars list published at the end.

On Monday, Brookswood lost a 62-59 game against St. Michaels University School, then, on Tuesday, defeated West Vancouver 64-61 to take seventh place.

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The last two teams standing of the 32, Vancouver College Fighting Irish and Burnaby South Rebels, met in the final Tuesday, with the Irish taking the championship 51-45.