Burnaby's Alisha Roberts was the girls' winner of a university scholarship following the Telus Basketball Classic on Saturday. Roberts was also named to the five-girl all-tournament team.
Roberts led the No. 3-ranked York House Tigers to third place in the girls' Secondary School division with 24 points in a 71-57 victory over the top-ranked AA Britannia Bruins in the tournament's consolation final at UBC's War Memorial Gym.
In the tournament semifinal on Friday, Roberts tallied 30 points in an 84-82 upset loss to No. 7 Handsworth Royals.
No. 1 Riverside Rapids defeated Handsworth 70-53 in Telus championship game.
The No. 8-ranked New Westminster Hyacks just missed an opportunity to make it to the semifinals, falling 76-73 to Handsworth at the Massey Gym on Thursday.
Meriam Ali torched the Royals from the three-point line, netting seven long-range buckets to finish with 23 points.
Senior point guard Ariana Sider led the Hyacks with 34 points. Sider also earned a HSBC scholarship at the tourney.
The Hyacks opened the Telus tournament with a 73-62 win over Fleetwood Park. Sider led New West with 24 points, while Ali and Jettie Mclaughlin added 14 and eight points, respectively.
The top-seeded Kelowna Owls prevailed in the boys' secondary school final, beating No. 2-ranked Vancouver College 88-80.
No. 4 Pitt Meadows defeated top-10 challenger St. George's 62-52 for third place.
The Burnaby South Rebels lost their second-round match at the Telus to Vancouver College 74-51 on Thursday. The New Westminster Hyacks also failed to move on in the tourney.
Hasrit Sidhu of New West and Nick Irvine from South were recipients of a HSBC scholarship.
South's George Kovac earned The Society of Notaries Public of British Columbia scholarship.
In the boys' elementary school division, South Burnaby Metro Club outscored Drive A 55-39 in the Telus final. The win extended the under-13 Eagles' unbeaten streak to 11 games.
The final was a matchup between the two teams, which have met in the u-13 provincials for the past three seasons.
South Burnaby came back from a one-point deficit at halftime behind Jovanic Castillo's 14-point effort.
Curtis Laigo led the birds in scoring with 62 points in five tournament games. Castillo garnered 59 total points, while Vince Sunga and Tyler Pearce both potted a total of 34 points.
The Eagles advanced to the final with a 53-25 win over AthElites from Surrey in the semis.
Two South Burnaby teams currently lead the u-13 Metro league. The Eagles are tied for first place in the A league with the SBMC All-stars, both with unbeaten 6-0 records. The u-12 Eagles are on top of the B division with a 7-0 record.
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The 2011 Rod Thomson Rebel Classic basketball tournament tips off on Thursday with the host Rebels taking on Yale at 2:45 p.m.
This year's Rebel Classic features to be the most competitive yet in the six-year history of the tournament. Honourable mention schools, Tamanawis, Sir Winston Churchill and Claremont, will be taking part on the opposite side of the draw, which should make a for a thrilling championship final on Sunday in the South gym, beginning at 3:15 p.m.
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