South Surrey junior basketball squad are 2026 South Fraser champions<\/p>\n
Published 2:00 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026<\/p>\n
There\u2019s some new champions in town.<\/p>\n
Earl Marriott\u2019s junior girls basketball team won the South Fraser Championships Thursday (Feb. 12), when the regional zone playoffs were held.<\/p>\n
The EMS Mariners squad went 3-0 in the championship tournament, which are the playoffs for eight schools from Delta, Richmond and Surrey,<\/p>\n
Coached by Neil Brown and Linda Forsyth, the team defeated Semiahmoo Secondary by a score of 62-43 in the South Fraser Finals on Feb. 12 at Steveston-London Secondary to become the 2026 South Fraser Champions, EMS junior girls basketball manager Matt Seguin noted in an email.<\/p>\n
The Mariners squad also beat Richmond Secondary 77-26 in their first game, and won vs. Guildford Park 54-24 in a semi-final matchup.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe girls have put in a tremendous amount of time into improving their skill set this past year,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThis tournament win is the result of their commitment. We are on a five-year journey. This is only year two. Stay tuned for more successes.\u201d<\/p>\n
EMS\u2019 Iva Crepjnak was named Tournament MVP and Naya Seguin was named First Team All-Star.<\/p>\n
Semiahmoo, third-place finishers Holy Cross and Seaquam players also received All-Star awards, with the top three teams qualifying for the 2026 junior girls basketball provincials.<\/p>\n
Those are scheduled for this Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 19-21, in New Westminster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Surrey junior basketball squad are 2026 South Fraser champions Published 2:00 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 There\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-482602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}