Top two finishers advance to provincials
Vancouver Island boys’ high school basketball has been “on an upswing,” said Chris Franklin, and that may be an understatement.
“There’s the club work, and the individual skills coaches the kids have now, and we are seeing the results with a higher level of basketball player coming out of high school and the top ones are staying on the Island and playing for UVic,” said Franklin. But the next player heading from the Island tournament to UVic will be Vikes-recruited Grade 12 star Griffin Arnatt of the Bays, but not before he attempts to bring Island and B.C. championship banners home to Oak Bay, which has only the Semiahmoo Thunderbirds of White Rock ranked ahead in the province.
Given a good chance of meeting Oak Bay in the Quad-A Island championship game on Saturday night are the B.C. honourable mention-ranked Claremont Spartans. Joining Oak Bay, Claremont and Spectrum in the Island tournament are the Reynolds Roadrunners, Belmont Bulldogs, Cowichan Thunderbirds, Nanaimo District Islanders and G.P. Vanier Towhees of Courtenay.
The boys’ Double-A Islands are today through Saturday at St. Michaels University School and feature B.C. top-ranked Brentwood College, provincial No. 4 John Barsby and No. 9 SMUS. All-rounder Adia Pye of Claremont, a provincial team player in both basketball and rugby, was named Island tournament MVP for the second consecutive year as the Spartans defended their title. They look to be good for a while yet with Claremont Grade 10 players Iva Kalabric and Carys Clarke named to the Island first all-star team.
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