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Bourassa tournament to held this weekend The Independent An estimated 60 tennis players from across Canada and the United States will be competing for $6,000 in prize money and national ranking points this weekend at the second annual “Love All” Justin Bourassa Memorial Tennis Tournament at the Sarnia Tennis Club this weekend.  “Building on the success of last year’s event,

Heather Wright/The Independent The Canadian Cowgirls had to contend with the rain during The Ram Stampede in Brigden. Saturday afternoon the precision equestrian drill team was in the ring at the Brigden Fairgrounds and the mud was flying. Some Lambton competitors claimed top prizes, Chloe McCallum of Enniskillen and Hailey Munro of Inwood placed first in the team Rescue Race. Petrolia’s

The Independent Core Jackson may be headed to the Big Apple. The Wyoming native was selected in the fifth round of the MLB Draft by the New York Yankees on Monday afternoon. Jackson has played college baseball at the University of Utah for the past two years. He slashed .364/.445/.641 with 12 home runs, 44 RBI, and 20 stolen bases

Barry Wright/The Independent The Petrolia Flyers have reached into east Lambton for a pair of players for the coming season. Alvinston’s Joey Hayter and Ty Moffatt of Watford are both joining the PJHL team. Hayter, 19, has played the past two seasons with the Blenheim Blades including scoring 15 goals and adding 31 assists in 51 regular season and playoff

Barry Wright/The Independent Alvinston Killer Bees star Brennan Feasey is the new head coach of the Sutherland Cup champion Chatham Maroons of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League. The new job came about after Richard Santos left the Maroons this week to become the new head coach of the U16 boys prep team with Biosteel Sports Academy in Windsor and

The Independent Petrolia’s Hunter Campbell is heading to the national track and field championships in Ottawa. Now training out of St. Thomas, he qualified by placing second in the under-20 hammer throw at the Athletics Ontario championships on the weekend in Windsor. He uncorked a throw of 49.85 metres on his sixth and final attempt to take the silver medal.

Barry Wright/The Independent Michael Leighton is heading across the Detroit River to continue his coaching career. After three seasons as goaltending coach with the OHL’s Windsor Spitfires, the Petrolia native has been hired as the new goaltending coach with the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings. Originally a sixth round pick by the Chicago Blackhawks in 1999, he played more than 700

‘The best coach possible to lead our National Junior Team’ says Hockey Canada The Independent Hockey Canada is turning to Oil Springs natives Dale and Mark Hunter to lead the World Junior team for 2026. Hockey Canada say the three-time Memorial Cup champions and 2020 World Juniors gold medalists will lead the team during the IIHF World Junior Championship Tournament

The Independent Cody Chovancek will be part of Dana White’s UFC Contender Series this season. The Petrolia native who trains with the Niagara Top Team in St. Catharines is 8-0 as a pro in the bantamweight division. His latest bout was a unanimous decision against American Jordan Howard defending his Unified MMA title in Toronto in May. He originally won

Heather Wright/The Independent Brian Bell hasn’t won on Father’s Day since 2021. But the Petrolia-born jockey pulled off one of the biggest wins of his career on this year Father’s Day becoming the first Canadian jockey to reach 800 wins. Bell is a quarter horse jockey; he calls it the drag racing of horses – straight down the track. Bell

Barry Wright/The Independent Brock Lane has signed on the dotted line with the GOJHL’s Komoka Kings. The Port Lambton goaltender, who doesn’t turn 17 until mid-December, went 19-1 with the Elgin-Middlesex under-18 AAA squad last season during the regular campaign and league playoffs with seven shutouts and a goals-against average of less than one. He and the Canucks, coached by

The Wyoming Cattlebarons bats were in full swing on Sunday winning pair of games and capturing the Dave Leach Memorial baseball tournament in Port Lambton. The Barons avenged an earlier tournament loss to Tecumseh with a 15-5 victory over the Thunder in the semi-finals and then bounced Chatham, 11-1 in the championship contest. In the semi-final, Daniel Gibson had four