LCCVI’s Minten wins Silver on Day One of OFSAA track and field championships
SPORTS BRIEFS: Wyoming ball players heading to nationals, Myers promoted by Tampa Bay
August 5, 2025
Wyoming flavour at national baseball tournament
A half dozen players with roots in Wyoming will suit up the Sarnia Brigade at the national 22u baseball championship this weekend in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
The group includes Jack Helps, Tyler Kerby, Kaden Gray, Caden Turnbull, Reid King and Cole Hudson.
Sarnia opens the tournament against Manitoba on Thursday morning.
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Noah Myers has been promoted by Tampa Bay Rays.
Myers is off to a solid start with the Montgomery (Alabama) Biscuits in AA baseball.
The Wyoming minor baseball and Great Lakes Canadian grad was promoted last week by the Tampa Bay Rays. Myers is two-for-six in his first two games with the Biscuits with a double, walk, run scored and a stolen base. He’s hitting .333 with an OPS of .929.
Montgomery’s regular season continues until the end of this month.
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Hunter Policchio needs to make room for a new championship plague. The Petrolia golfer won the junior men’s championship this week at the Sarnia Golf and Curling Club. Narisse Daye won the junior women’s championship.
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James Grant set a new personal best with a fourth place finish in the men’s 1500 metre final at the Twilight Series at Hamilton’s McMaster University on Monday. The Petrolia distance runner crossed the finish in a time of 3:51.53 just ahead of Sarnia’s Chase Capes
Grant and 14 teammates with the Sarnia Athletics Southwest Track and Field Club are competing at the Legion nationals in Calgary this weekend.
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LCCVI’s Minten wins Silver on Day One of OFSAA track and field championships
June 4, 2026
John Wright/The Independent Rayah Mnten has given LCCVI its first medal at the OFSAA Track and Field Championships winning silver in Novice Girls shot put Thursday afternoon in St. Catharines. Minten’s first throw of 10.44 meters was her best during the qualification round. That put her seventh and narrowly put her into the final, which consisted of the top eight
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LCCVI Girls’ rugby into the quarterfinals at OFSAA
June 4, 2026
Barry Wright/The Independent LCCVI is in the elite eight at the OFSAA girls’ A/AA rugby tournament in Stratford. The 11th-seeded Lancers upset 6th-ranked Bowmanville-Clarington Central, 17-12 on Thursday afternoon. Trailing 12-0 at the half, LCCVI fought back with second half tries from Mya Beaudoin, Miley Anderson and Abbi White along with a convert from Elizabeth Kuykendall. LCCVI plays third-ranked Belleville-Bayside
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Oil City’s Kember eighth at national wrestling tourney
June 4, 2026
Barry Wright/The Independent Micah Kember of the Sarnia Bluewater Wrestling Club is back home after delivering a “determined performance” at the Canadian Wrestling Championships in Montreal, according to his coach Henry Dickson. The Oil City wrestler competed in the 55-kilo competitors in the under-17 division and reached the final round of the consolation side of the bracket placing in the
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Fire heavily damages Sombra waterfront home
June 4, 2026
Heather Wright/The Independent No one was injured during a fire in one of Sombra’s original homes. Sombra firefighters were called to a house on Water Street, south of the ferry dock, around 7:30 pm Wednesday. They found heavy smoke and flames coming from the family home on the St. Clair River. “They started an aggressive interior attack but the fire
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