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Barry Wright/The Independent Ethan Glavin and Anthony Avellino have signed with the GOHL’s Sarnia Legionnaires for the 2026-27 season. Glavin, a late round pick by the Sting in 2025, played 43 regular season and playoff games with the Mooretown Flags last season registering two goals, 15 assists and 66 PIM. Avellino had 10 goals and 29 points in 40 total

The Independent June 29 is going to be a big day in Alvinston. That’s when the new concrete floor in the arena at the Brooke-Alvinston-Inwood Community Centre will be poured. Since April, construction crews have been working on the nearly $2 million project to replace the ice-making pipes and floor. Themunicipality received a provincial grant for about half of the

Barry Wright/The Independent The next stop on the junior hockey path for Hayden Duncan will be Drayton Valley, Alberta. The Alvinston goaltender has signed with the Alberta Junior Hockey League’s Thunder for the coming campaign. Drayton Valley is in oil country, southwest of Edmonton. The 20-year-old goaltender won 19 games split between three teams in the OJHL last season. Prior

Barry Wright/The Independent William Hull is moving down the road from Strathroy to Mt. Brydges for the 2026-27 hockey season. Hull, from Oil Springs, had played 203 regular season and playoff games with the GOHL’s Strathroy Rockets since 2021 but he graduated as an overage player at the end of the last season. However, the PJHL allows an additional year

Barry Wright/The Independent Nathan Beer is the first signing announced for the coming PJHL season by the Petrolia Flyers. The 18-year-old left-shot forward played the past two seasons with the Burlington-based Blyth-Deerview Raiders prep team following two seasons with the U16 and U18 squads in Strathroy. Beer played one game with the Flyers in 2024 scoring in a contest against

Barry Wright/The Independent Chase Capes is heading for World U20 track and field championships in Eugene, Oregon in August. He qualified by winning the national junior 1500-metre final last weekend in Ottawa. Fellow Sarnia Athletics Southwest club members Avery Norland and Duncan Smith also had top five finishes. Skarlit Worton, who announced her commitment to the University of Minnesota Monday,

Barry Wright/The Independent The Sting bolstered its blueline with the acquisition of right-shot defenceman Cole Emerton from the Barrie Colts in exchange for six draft choices, including two conditional picks this week. The draft selections range from 2027-29. A former minor hockey teammate of Alessandro Di Iorio with the Vaughan Kings, Emerton had four goals and 39 points in 86

Barry Wright/The Independent The Sting selected Adrian Sgro with the fourth pick in the OHL Priority Selection in Kingston. The 16-year-old left-shot blueliner was the first defenceman taken in the proceedings Friday and the first taken in the opening round by the Sting since they made Jakob Chychrun the first overall pick in 2014. As captain of the Vaughan Kings

Barry Wright/The Independent The Enniskillen Express finished in third place in a rain-shortened U17 girls’ fastball tournament in Mitchell. The Express beat teams from Goderich and Exeter but lost to the Sweaburg Storm to finish the tournament with a record of 2-1. ••• The Corunna Giants U11 girls’ fastball team won silver medals at a tournament in Chatham last weekend. 

Barry Wright/The Independent Defenceman John Montanino led the local contingent drafted at the OHL Priority Selection in Kingston. The Brampton Steelheads selected him in the third round. The Sarnia native played with Detroit-Little Caesars this season. Windsor chose Sarnia’s Cameron Jolicoeur, a power forward from the London Jr. Knights, in the seventh round and the Knights took Grand Bend’s Liam

Heather Wright/The Independent The batter from Burlington connects in a Gold Bat game against the Windsor Athletics on Morrison Field, Petrolia Saturday morning. A few games from the Sarnia tournament were played in Petrolia. A champion was not named this year as the finals were rained out Sunday.

The Independent The Forest Firefighters Association held its second annual two pitch tournament at Coultis Park in Forest on June 13. All proceeds from the tournament are going to local non-profits and community groups.