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Barry Wright/The Independent James McEwan is returning for a fourth season with the Alvinston Killer Bees. He has scored 89 goals and registered 239 points in 103 regular season and playoff games over the past three campaigns with the Bees. The Metro Division all-star had 76 points in 31 games last season leading the Bees to a divisional championship and

Barry Wright/The Independent It’s a homecoming for Nathan Reidhead. The Wyoming native and Petrolia Oilers product has been dealt to the Petrolia Flyers from the Dresden Kings in an inter-divisional PJHL trade for Alvinston’s Joey Hayter. Reidhead had 10 goals and 20 points in 39 games with the Kings as a rookie last season. Hayter had 11 goals and 33

Blake Ellis/The Independent Matthias Uwe Kask beat Sachiv Kumar two sets to one in the final of the third-annual Love All Justin Bourassa Memorial Tournament Monday. Kask was ranked first and Kumar ranked second among the more than 40 competitors in the Ontario Tennis Association Men’s Open sanctioned event. Kumar took the first set 6-3 before Kask came back taking

Barry Wright/The Independent Mitch Robb hit a two-run homer and drove in three runs to lead the Wyoming Cattlebarons to an 8-3 win over the host Port Lambton Pirates in the final of the Dave Leach Memorial Tournament last weekend. Robb was chosen as the tournament MVP with two victories on the mound, striking out eight over 11 innings pitched

Barry Wright/The Independent Russian goaltender Ivan Tkach-Tkachenko and Norwegian power forward Jonas Gulbrandsen have signed OHL contracts with the Sarnia Sting. The Sting took Tkach-Tkachenko, a Utah Mammoth prospect, with the tenth overall pick in the CHL import draft late last month. “We’re excited to welcome Ivan to the Sting,” said General Manager Dylan Seca of the 6’3” left-catching puckstopper.

Barry Wright/The Independent Competing against runners mostly in their 20’s and 30’s, Sarnia teenager Chase Capes finished fifth in a field of 245 runners at a recent 800 metre Night Run in Toronto. His time of 1:48.68 is the sixth fastest in the world this season in the U18 classification. Meantime, Capes’ time of 3:44.86 in the U18 1500-metres set

Barry Wright/The Independent Kallee Elliott is getting used to standing at the top of the podium. The LCCVI student, competing for the Sarnia Athletics Southwest Track and Field Club, has won back-to-back gold medals in girls’ U16 high jump events over the past two weekends. She leaped 1.55 metres to capture first place at the Royal Canadian Legion provincial championships

Barry Wright/The Independent A tennis tournament near and dear to Petrolia’s Matt Mueller is on this week at the Sarnia Tennis Club. Mueller is the lead organizer for the Justin Bourassa Memorial Tournament in honour of his friend and mentor who was shot and killed by police in London in Oct. 2021. Play began Wednesday and continues through Sunday. The

Barry Wright/The Independent 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

Barry Wright/The Independent The Sting drafted goaltender Ivan Tkach-Tkachenko of Chernolesovsky, Russia with the tenth overall pick in the CHL Import draft last week. The 6-foot-3, 185-pound left-catching goaltender most recently suited up for Ufa Tolpar in the Russian junior league where he won 38 games in 72 appearances over the past two seasons. Utah chose him in the fifth

Barry Wright/The Independent Mark and Dale Hunter of the London Knights turned to Finland for its two picks in the CHL import draft last week. They selected Luca Santala in the first round with the 40th choice and then nabbed Juho Piiparunen in the second round with the 101st selection. Santala, a right-shot forward, turns 17 later this month.His father

Barry Wright/The Independent It appears this coming season will be the last one for Sarnia captain Alessandro Di Iorio in a Sting uniform. The former second overall pick in the OHL Priority Selection in 2024 has committed to Boston University for the 2027-28 campaign. The Columbus Blue Jackets chose Di iorio in the third round, 94th overall at the NHL