Brentwood, SMUS boys off to Final Four

A pair of Island teams are off to semifinals at the B.C. senior boys’ double-A basketball championship at the Langley Events Centre.

No. 1-seed Brentwood College is easily through after a 90-47 victory over H.J. Cambie in Thursday afternoon quarter-final play.

The Mill Bay school will face G.W. Graham in an 8:45 p.m. semifinal tonight after the No. 4 Grizzlies defeated the No. 5 Lambrick Park Lions 98-80.

“It was close at the half,” Brentwood coach Blake Gage said of a 40-30 advantage at the break. “We will definitely be tested [today].”

Brentwood College is joined in the semis by the St. Michaels Blue Jags, who downed St. Patrick 78-64. Coach Ian Hyde-Lay’s Jags will face either King George or Westyde in that matchup (the result of that late quarter-final was unavailable by press time).

At the quadruple-A level, the No. 3 Oak Bay Bays met W.J. Mouat in a late Thursday game with a berth to semis on the line (result unavailable). The Belmont Bulldogs had already dropped to the consolation side of the tournament after a 58-47 loss to Holy Cross on Wednesday, but rebounded for an 83-78 win over Yale on Thursday.

In triple-A play, all four Island reps — Carihi, Wellington, Mark Isfeld and Nanaimo District — also lost on Wednesday and remain in consolation play. On Thursday, Maple Ridge beat Mark Isfeld 57-39; Nanaimo District won 83-57 over Brookswood; and Wellington defeated Carihi 78-64.

The same held true at single-A where St. Andrew’s and Duncan Christian both fell short on opening day before clashing on Thursday. St. Andrew’s downed Duncan Christian 52-45 in that confrontation.