SMUS teams continue to shine on the provincial stage, highlighted this week by a bronze medal finish for Senior Girls Basketball at the BC AAA Championships. Senior Boys Basketball now turns its focus to Langley as the BC AA tournament tips off, while the Grade 9 Boys wrapped up an outstanding season with a strong showing at their provincial invitational.
Senior Girls Basketball
The SMUS Senior Girls Basketball team capped a tremendous season on Saturday by winning the BC AAA Championship bronze medal in their final game together at the Langley Events Centre.
Versatile Grade 11 guard Elspeth Rodger scored 17 points and added eight rebounds and five steals to power SMUS to a 69-38 decision over Duchess Park of Prince George in the third-place game of the 16-team draw.
Rodger was strong throughout the event for SMUS and was honoured with a selection to the BC tournament’s first all-star team. Fellow guard and graduating senior Mya Beare contributed 13 points against the Condors and made the second all-star team as did Grade 11 forward Mikaela Dubé, with six rebounds and six points in the bronze-medal match. Grade 9 guard Piper Geddes scored 14 points and added three steals and three assists against Duchess to earn player of the game honours for SMUS.
The Blue Jags went 3-1 over the four-day tournament, and surrendered an average of fewer than 40 points a game – the top defensive showing of any team in the AAA draw. Indigo Edgington led the SMUS defence all tournament long with a Herculean effort, locking down the opposition’s best player in each game.
SMUS opened the tournament with a 101-25 win over the Steveston-London Sharks on Wednesday. Rodger scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to earn player of the game honours for SMUS while teammates Dubé (17), Edgington (16), and Geddes (11), also each hit double figures in scoring.
Rodger contributed 21 points and added 19 rebounds to power SMUS to a 53-29 victory over Pitt Meadows in a tournament quarterfinal on Thursday. Dubé had 11 points and 11 rebounds while Beare chipped in nine points.
That win moved the Blue Jags into a Friday afternoon semifinal against rival Langley Christian. Beare scored 22 points and had four steals to lead third-ranked SMUS in a hard-fought 66-58 loss to the second-ranked Lightning.
The Blue Jags got off to a slow start against Langley Christian, trailing 17-2 in the first quarter, but they quickly dug their way back into the game and had erased the gap completely by early in the second. The Lightning pulled ahead again, leading 55-37 after three quarters. But SMUS refused to quit, fighting back to within six points late in the final period. Rodger added 16 points and five steals in the loss for SMUS while Dubé had 11 points, nine rebounds, and five blocks.
The bronze medal continued an impressive run at the BC tournament for the SMUS Senior Girls, who have now made four consecutive Final Four appearances. It also capped a highly successful season for this edition of the Blue Jags, who won Lower Island and Island titles en route to the provincial tournament.
Senior Boys Basketball
It’s the SMUS Senior Boys’ turn to hit the Langley Events Centre hardwood this week, as the Blue Jags enter the 16-team BC AA Championship tournament as the No. 10 overall seed.
The Blue Jags will face the seventh-seeded Langley Christian Lightning in their opener, beginning at 6:15 pm Wednesday on the LEC’s South Court. The two teams have not met this season, but the Lightning are a big, physical squad that plays a lot of zone defence.
SMUS Head Coach Reagan Daly has put his team through more than a week of practice to prepare for the BC tournament after the Blue Jags finished second in the Vancouver Island Championships Feb. 19 to 21 at Shawnigan Lake School.
The Blue Jags are led by a trio of senior backcourt players – dynamic point guard Dani Pelyhe, sharpshooting guard Will Bateson, and defensive dynamo Parker Sheehan. Their lineup, which has been shorthanded for much of the season, has been bolstered for the playoffs by the addition of four members of the Junior Boys team.
“I like where we are right now, heading into the BC tournament,” Daly said. We’ve had a solid practice window to work on all of our stuff and we should be ready to go in Langley.”
If SMUS is successful in its first game, it would play the winner of another Round of 16 game between No. 2 Collingwood and No. 15 Nechako Valley. Also on the Blue Jags’ side of the draw are No. 3 Southridge, No. 14 Summerland, No. 11 Kalamalka and No. 6 Pacific Christian, the Island champion.
The tournament will conclude on Saturday. All games will be livestreamed for a fee at https://stream.prestosports.com/tfsetv
Grade 9 Boys Basketball
The SMUS Blue Jags wrapped up an impressive basketball season this past weekend by going 2-2 in the BC Grade 9 Boys Invitational tournament in Vancouver to finish 10th overall.
Forward Seb Divoky scored 21 points to lead the Blue Jags in a tight 50-48 loss to Surrey’s Holy Cross Crusaders in the 9th/10th-place game on Sunday at Kitsilano Secondary.
That came after back-to-back wins for the Grade 9 Jags in BC tournament games on Friday and Saturday. Point guard Jerome Chan earned player of the game honours as SMUS notched its first win of the provincial tournament on Friday – a 47-32 decision over Carson Graham at Lord Byng Secondary. Guard Adrian Villen Diez was the top scorer with 14 points for SMUS, which also got 11 points from Divoky, and nine from Kian Harris.
On Saturday, Harris was the player of the game with 16 points to power the Jags to a 44-37 win over the Yale Lions at Kitsilano. Other top scorers for SMUS in that one were Chan with 11 points, Danny Perrins with eight, and Divoky with seven.
SMUS ran into a big, physical Queen Elizabeth Tigers team in its first game of the BC tournament, falling 61-47 on Thursday at Lord Byng. Villen Diez scored 16 points for the Blue Jags in the loss while Divoky and Chan added 12 points apiece.
The Blue Jags enjoyed a tremendous season, winning the Lower Island and Island Grade 9 playoff titles, going unbeaten in Lower Island Junior Division 2 league play, and losing only three games in total to Grade 9 opponents.
Squash
Ten athletes from the SMUS Senior School Elite and Middle School Competitive teams competed in the 2026 BC Junior Squash Championships at the River Club in Vancouver this past weekend.
Amos Guan earned a fourth-place finish in the Boys U13 category while Max Arndt (Boys U17) and Wilson Kong (Boys U19) took fifth-place honours in their respective divisions.
Other SMUS results included: Omar Ghoneim, sixth in Boys U15; Andrew MacEachern, eighth in Boys U15; Liam Wilkinson, 10th in Boys U15; Kieran MacKay, seventh in Boys U17; Carsten Rodger, eighth in Boys U17; Elliot Judson, ninth in Boys U17; and Jimmy Wen, ninth (first consolation winner) in Boys U13.
SMUS squash athletes will compete in a Shawnigan Silver Series tournament this coming Saturday.
