LANGLEY — At least one Surrey team will be in the final of the 2017 BC Secondary School AAA Girls Championship.
Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers and Panorama Ridge Thunder senior girls teams will meet in the tourney semifinal on Final Four Friday (March 3), after both teams won their top-bracket games on Thursday.
Friday's semifinal game will be played at 3:30 p.m. at Langley Events Centre's Centre Court.
One day after all eight of the top seeds were victorious, #8 Lord Tweedsmuir played spoiler for #1 Oak Bay with a 81-78 win.
Final Four Bound!! #8 Tweedsmuir Def #1 OakBay 81-78 . Monster night by Budiman & Grewal Combine for 67pts & 17 3's in the WIN @BCHoopScoop
— Curtis McRae (@HoopCoachMcRae) March 3, 2017
“It was an absolutely amazing evening! Two teams with opposite styles going at it, one that was big and slower and the other that was quick and shoots fast,” stated Tweedy head coach Curtis McCrae.
“We are expecting a great game tomorrow against Panorama. A team we battled against five or six times a season. We actually lost to them in the Grade 10 Finals, so it is a team we know very well and we expect an absolute battle.”
Panorama Ridge, ranked #5, took care of business by beating Walnut Grove by a score of 85-70.
Congrats to @EcolePanorama and @LordTweedsmuir Sr. Girls teams for making the @BCAAAGirlsBBall Provincial semi final.
— Surrey HS BBall (@SurreyHighBBall) March 3, 2017
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The other semifinal will see #2 Abbotsford play #3 Brookswood at 5:15 p.m.
The Final Four kicks off on Friday, March 3 with #8 Lord Tweedsmuir battling #5 Panorama Ridge at 3:30pm. #2 Abbotsford takes on #3 Brookswood at 5:15pm. Both games will take place at Centre Court inside the Langley Events Centre.
In Junior Girls hoops, also on Thursday, Lord Tweedsmuir beat Panorama Ridge 49-42 to advance to the tourney semifinal against Kelowna, in a game that starts at 6:30 p.m. Friday at LEC's Fieldhouse. The other semi will have St. Thomas Aquinas play Robert Bateman at 8 p.m.