Pacific Academy Breakers won their first BC School Sports 2A boys basketball provincial championship on Saturday, March 8.
Led by point guard Judah Ashbee, son of head coach Joel Ashbee, the Surrey squad took down Summerland Rockets 80-69 at Langley Events Centre.
Ashbee scored 22 of his 34 points after halftime on his way to earning tournament MVP and Championship Player of the Game honours.
The Breakers were the 2A division favourites heading into the tourney, with Summerland ranked #2 and looking to extend their perfect 32-0 record on the season.
But players with the Christian school in Fraser Heights had other ideas, pulling away from the Rockets in the fourth quarter to score the school's first ever hoops title.
After the final buzzer, Breakers fans flooded the Arena Bowl court to celebrate with jubilant players and coaches.
Celebration time for Surrey's @PABreakersBBall at the buzzer of the B.C. boys basketball championship game at @LangleyEvents.
— Tom Zillich (@TomZillich) March 10, 2025
Historic first provincial hoops title for the private Christian school in Fraser Heights, in 2A division.
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"This program has been built over a decade and a half, this is incredible," said an emotional coach Ashbee, a humanities teacher at Pacific Academy and co-coach with Seth Sorensen.
"We've got alumni from years and years ago that are crying because we all share in this. I'm so proud of our guys, it's just beyond anything.... I'm hoping I don't wake up because it feels like a dream. It felt like a dream when we walked in here and we saw this with all the pageantry. I had to keep saying, 'I think this is real.' So I'm hoping I don't wake up, guys."
Emotional coach/teacher Joel Ashbee after @PABreakersBBall's big B.C. basketball championship win last night at the LEC, with son Judah earning MVP honours in the @BC2ABoysBBall tourney.
— Tom Zillich (@TomZillich) March 10, 2025
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For Pacific Academy, Earl Akene was key in the fourth quarter, scoring eight of his 21 points in the period, adding 11 rebounds for the game. Teammate Joel Aikoriogie was named a second team all-star for the 2A tourney.
At the LEC from Wednesday to Saturday, 64 teams played for provincial titles in four divisions, from the smallest schools of 1A to B.C.'s largest in 4A.
Surrey's Khalsa School also made the provincial tournament in the 2A division, finishing 12th among the 16 teams after losing to Credo Christian 77-72 on Saturday.
In 4A action, Surrey was represented by four teams (Tamanawis, Lord Tweedsmuir, Holy Cross and Semiahmoo), but none advanced past the quarter-final round, for the first time in several years. Holy Cross was the only Surrey team to make the round of eight, losing 95-72 to Dover Bay, who went on to fall in the tournament's championship game Saturday night, 81-66 to Spectrum.
Earlier in the day, Holy Cross finished fifth in 4A with a 74-59 win over Mount Boucherie. Crusader Okezi Urefe was among Second Team all-stars in the 4A tourney.
