VIDEO: Best-attended, most-watched All-Native tournament wraps in B.C.<\/p>\n
Published 8:00 pm Saturday, March 21, 2026<\/p>\n
The big one is done.<\/p>\n
More than 300 games over five days, featuring 129 teams from across the province, came to a close Friday at the finals of the 50th annual Junior All Native Tournament (JANT 2026) at Langley Events Centre.<\/p>\n
It was the biggest Indigenous competition of its kind in <\/a>B.C.<\/a>, the best-attended and most-watched ever, with 2,400 fans watching at Centre Court for the highest attended championship finals day in tournament history, while online, more than 373,000 cumulative viewers tuned in.<\/p>\n Four teams went home with gold in U17 boys and girls, and U13 boys and girls divisions.<\/p>\n In the U17 boys finals boys,Ts\u2019ap downed VanCity Warriors 77-71.<\/p>\n It was a rematch of the semi-final that saw VanCity advance on Thursday, but Ts\u2019ap won a do-or-die game against the Ahousaht Islanders to face the Warriors in the championship.<\/p>\n Ts\u2019ap controlled the game and stopped the VanCity Warriors from repeating as a champions from last year. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n At\u2019maakw ended Friday\u2019s U17 girls championship game by winning their fifth title in as many years as they defeated Tla-o-qui-aht West Coast 60-58, holding off a late surge by the challenger that brought them within two points, but no closer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In U13 boys, Sons of Gingolx defeated the G\u0331aw Tlag\u00e9e Jr. Raiders 48-43 in a game that was neck and neck for all four quarters.<\/p>\n Snuneymuxw Islanders repeated as U13 girls champions after going undefeated in five games during group play before finishing their run with a win against the Mini Mystics 69-22.<\/p>\n JANT 2026 was co-hosted by the Vancouver Bandits, VanCity Nation youth basketball and Kwantlen First Nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Best-attended, most-watched All-Native tournament wraps in B.C. Published 8:00 pm Saturday, March 21, 2026 The big one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-552819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552819","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=552819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}