After a weekend of upsets in AAA boys' basketball action, the Fraser Valley Championships wrapped up with three Tri-City high schools qualifying for the provincial championships.
Port Coquitlam's Terry Fox Ravens came close to taking it all Saturday after besting Port Moody's Heritage Woods Kodiaks Friday night in a slim, single-basket 71-69 decision.
"We were lucky. Heritage Woods controlled the game," Ravens head coach Rich Chambers said. "We got seven points in the last 28 seconds."
Fox's Brett Macdonald sunk the final bucket Friday, putting the Ravens over the top and on to the final.
But there the PoCo boys were outmatched by Abbotsford's W.J. Mouat Hawks, a team they had beaten earlier in the season.
"We weren't playing our best and we just struggled to match their size and physicality," Chambers said.
In the end, the Hawks carried the Fraser Valley final with a 79-57 win over the second-place Ravens.
Heritage Woods dusted itself off after Friday's nail-biting loss to the Ravens and eked out their own one-basket win against Walnut Grove of Langley, winning third place in the tournament and a spot in next week's B.C.-wide championships in Langley.
Coquitlam's Gleneagle Talons lost their battle with Pitt Meadows for fifth place 56-36 but still earned a spot in the provincials.
As for the higher-ranked Ravens, "We've still got to get better defensively," Chambers said. "And we've got to have more flow in our offence so we can move from one thing to the other quicker."
