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Tyler Coene recently completed one the most rare shots in golf.

He used a nine-iron from 148 yards away to hole his second shot on the par 5, 18th hole at the St. Clair Parkway golf course in Mooretown.

The PGA says the odds of an amateur player successfully holing a double eagle, or an albatross as its known, are six million to one.

The odds are nearly 500 times higher than that of a hole-in-one.

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Adam Broad has been traded by the Strathroy Rockets to the Hamilton Steel in a Greater Ontario Hockey League transaction.

Broad, from Petrolia, will be attending Brock University in St. Catharines in September.

He had four goals and 20 points in 49 total games with the Rockets last season.

The 19-year-old defenceman is a graduate of the Mooretown Flags and the Lambton Jr. Sting.

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Former Sting player and head coach Trevor Letowski is stepping away from the Montreal Canadiens bench.

He’s been an assistant with the Habs since 2021 and was part of the team that reached the Eastern Conference final this season. Letowski cited family reasons for his departure.

Former Red Wings and Tampa Bay coach Derek Lalonde has replaced him.

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Daniel Nikandrov was not unemployed long. Less than a week after being let go by the OHL’s Soo Greyhounds, the former Sting has signed on with the St. John Sea Dogs of the Quebec Maritime Hockey League as an assistant coach.

Nikandrov, who played the majority of junior career with the Sting, had been an assistant with the Hounds for the past two seasons under John Dean but was not retained by new head coach Drew Bannister.

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A resident from Warwick Township will represent both Ontario and Canada at events in Fort Wayne, Indiana at the end of this month.

Lambton Jr. Sting U14 AAA goalie, Ethan McPherson has been selected to play on the 2013-born Canada national development inline roller hockey team and will also play for Team Ontario.

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The Sarnia Pacers are the 2026 Conradi-Engemann Memorial Tournament champions.

The local U22 lacrosse squad took top honours with a 6-4 win over Centre Wellington (Elora region) in Niagara-on-the-Lake last weekend.

Corunna’s Nate Harris led the winners in scoring with nine points on a goal and eight assists in five games while Oil Springs’ Jack
Stephenson was the top goal scorer with seven.

Watford’s Ryan Bork and Thomas Browning-McFeegan of the Mooretown Flags had six points each.

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Noah Olver of Bright’s Grove and the Sarnia Golf and Curling Club carded an even par 71 and won the recent 2027 Junior Boys Optimist qualifier by a dozen shots in Windsor.

Olver is compering this weekend at the 2026 event at Doral in Miami.

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The Sarnia Sturgeon has advanced to the Ontario Summer Football League championship weekend with an 86-70 win over the Chatham-Kent Cougars on the weekend.

After being named player of the week for the final week of the regular season with six touchdowns against the North Bay Bulldogs, running back CJ Edeoga had even better numbers against the Cougars with eight scores; seven on the ground and one on a kick return.

QB Jack Haddad scored twice; one rushing and the other on a kick return.

Sarnia will take on North Bay in a return match this weekend for the title.

Future playoff dates for the Sturgeon U16 and 18 teams have not been announced.

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Former Sarnia Sting Zach Filak has been named to the Hockey East all-academic team for the 2025-26 season.

The Northville, Michigan native had a goal and three assists in 20 games in his inaugural season with the Catamounts.

Originally, a ninth round pick in 2020, he played 273 regular season and playoff games with the Sting from 2021-25.