Corunna’s John McLaughlin of the Windsor Spitfires has a gold medal to his credit as his Team Canada-Red squad beat Team Canada-White, 6-3 in the final of the Under-17 World Challenge in Truro, Nova Scotia last weekend.

Sting power forward Brenner Lammers had an assist for Team White in the loss. He along with Sting teammate Kaden Aucoin and Sarnia’s Matthew Henderson of the Kingston Frontenacs all won silver medals.

Lammens ended the six-tournament with two goals and five points in five games, Henderson had a goal and five assists for six points while Aucoin and McLaughlin each registered two assists over the week-long tournament.

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Adam Broad scored his first goal of GOHL season and added an assist as Strathroy Rockets beat the winless Sarnia Legionnaires, 8-1 in West Middlesex Saturday.

The Petrolia native, who is a graduate of the Lambton Jr. Sting and Mooretown Flags, has a goal and seven assists in 14 games this season.

The Rockets are seven points out of a playoff spot in the Western Conference.  Sarnia remains winless.

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Roen Douglas will be playing collegiate baseball in the American heartland in 2026.  The Petrolia product and graduate of Wyoming Minor baseball and the Great Lake Canadians organizations has committed to the Hutchison Community College in Kansas. One of his teammates with the Blue Dragons will be a familiar face. Pitcher Seth Ainsworth of Sarnia is a fellow grad of the Great Lake Canadians program.  He won five games with Hutchison last season.

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An iconic member of the local baseball community has died. Bill Slack passed away over the weekend at his home in North Carolina.

First signed by the Boston Red Sox in 1951, the Petrolia-born Slack remained in the game for more than a half century as a player, coach or manager with the Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers and Kansas City Royals organizations.

Bill Slack was a member of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. He and his brother Stan are both members of the Sarnia-Lambton Sports Hall of Fame. 

“Bill was a passionate baseball lifer who spent his career in the minor league ranks, and as a result, his teaching and influence often went unheralded. But we were proud to recognize him with his induction into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002,” said the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in a statement.

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LCCVI grad Charlie Shaw and his Guelph Gryphons squad won the men’s team bronze medals at the U-Sports cross-country championship in Sherbrooke, Quebec Nov. 8.

Shaw, from Petrolia, finished the 8K event in 45th place in 25:55.

McMaster, with Sarnia’s Ryan Davies on its roster, was fifth overall.

Individually, Davies, a Northern grad, was 62nd in 26:07.

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First year runner Emma Munroe from Lambton College finished 54th in the individual women’s 6K race at the Canadian College cross-country championships on Prince Edward Island Saturday.

The North Lambton grad crossed the finish line in 26:46 placing the Forest athlete in the top half of the 114-runner field. She placed 10th among OCAA athletes.

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Sarnia Sturgeon and Great Lakes grad Joey Edlington of Corunna and his top-seeded Laurier Golden Hawks ran out of runway in a 30-27 loss to fourth-ranked Queen’s in the Yates Cup football final Nov. 8 in Waterloo.

Edlington ended the afternoon with two solo tackles, including an eight-yard sack.

The sociology major is eligible to return to the Golden Hawks for the 2026 campaign.

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Declan Watson won the men’s 79kg class at the Senior Provincial Weightlifting Championships in Toronto Saturday. He lifted 117kg in the snatch and 143kg in the clean and jerk for a 260kg total. 

The Errol Village resident’s next competition will be the Ontario junior championship in Ottawa in early December.

Meantime, brothers Bradyn and Noah Santavy of Sarnia were one-two in the 94-kilo class at the same event.