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Gage Brandon scored three times and assisted on the game-winning goal in the third period to lead the Pickering Panthers to an 8-7 win over North York in OJHL action Friday.

It was the first OJHL hat trick for the Petrolia native.

Brandon is among the rookie scoring leaders in the league this season with six goals and 15 points in 15 games.

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Michael Pavlovic recorded the first two-goal performance of his GOHL career and Ben Foster turned aside 36 shots but it was not enough as the Listowel Cyclones beat the Legionnaires, 4-2 in Midwestern Ontario Friday.

Sting draft choice Shayne Keefe had a goal and two assists for the Cyclones while another Sting prospect Clark deBoer also scored for the winners.

On Thursday, yet another Sting prospect David Healy made a season-high 61 saves in the Legionnaires 6-0 home ice loss to St. Marys.

Sarnia is home to St. Thomas at Pat Stapleton Arena Thursday and takes on the Kings in Komoka on Halloween.

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Host Mooretown teams won three titles and earned a finalists banner at the Stanley Taggart Memorial tournament on the weekend.

The Jr. Flags doubled Lambton Shores, 4-2 to win the under-13 championship, edged Wallaceburg, 3-2 in overtime in the under-15 final and blanked East Lambton, 2-0 for the under-18 crown.

Lambton Shores won the under-10 title with a 4-3 win over Mooretown.

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Petrolia’s Jack Helps was chosen an all-star at the OCAA baseball championship in London last weekend.

The third-year shortstop was one of five players on the Lions roster from central Lambton. The others were Wyoming’s Parker Needham, Jackson Burlingham of Petrolia along with Caleb Rosseel and Brock Lane from St. Clair Township.

Lambton won silver medals losing out to London’s Fanshawe Falcons in the championship round. It’s the third consecutive year the Lions have won a medal at provincials.

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The junior boys’ volleyball regular season championship will be decided Nov. 2 in Chatham.

John McGregor leads the standings with a 4-0-5 record followed by LCCVI and North Lambton both tied at 2-1-6.

Monday, LCCVI split its three matches including one against first-place John McGregor (25- 20, 16-25) and North Lambton went 1-1-1, including a split with LCCVI.