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Britannia Bruins win 10th annual Langara Challenge

Tournament hosts top public and private girls basketball teams in Vancouver
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Churchill Bulldog Lex Leynes (no. 14) dishes the ball past Lord Byng's Yvona Acimovic (no. 12) in the senior girls tournament of the Langara Challenge Jan. 20, 2017. Photo Dan Toulgoet

The final featured the as last year, but this time, the Britannia Bruins got the best of the Churchill Bulldogs in the 10th annual Langara Challenge.

The Bruins won 67-51 in Saturday’s final at Langara College, yet it was Killarney Cougar junior stand-out Janel Tantengco who stole the spotlight the night before with a lights-out, shoot-em-up performance to win the three-point contest.

Tantengco, a six-footer in Grade 10, won the contest in a tie-breaker after she equalled Britannia’s Karalee Antoine with 14 buckets. In a head-to-head match-up, Tantengco sunk eight treys.

Now running for a decade, the tournament put on by the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Girls Basketball Association has given away more than $50,000 in scholarships.Ìý

Three women who played in the tournament currently compete for the Langara Falcons women's basketball team, and today, Churchill's Lex Leynes announced her committment to join the program next season.

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Katrina Kwong )no. 5) brings the ball up court for Churchill in the senior girls tournament of the Langara Challenge Jan. 20, 2017. Photo Dan Toulgoet

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Lord Byng’s Skyler MacDonald (no. 11) drives the pace while tracked by Churchill's Katrina Kwong (no. 11) in the senior girls tournament of the Langara Challenge Jan. 20, 2017. Photo Dan Toulgoet

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Lord Byng Grey Ghost Caitlan Barker (no. 15) protects the ball as teammate Yvona Acimovic (no. 12) steps in to support under pressure from Churchill’s Michelle Huang (no. 6) in the senior girls tournament of the Langara Challenge Jan. 20, 2017. Photo Dan Toulgoet