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The Ontario Super Hockey League will review a hit which sent Alvinston Killer Bees’ defenceman Jacob Chantler to hospital. Saturday night, the so-called Battle of Lambton between the Killer Bees and Petrolia Squires ended abruptly when the Killer Bees left the ice with 12:07 left in the third period on what was billed as Minor Hockey Night. Trailing the Squires

Tobias Iantorno and Lucas Rogers both scored twice to lead the Petrolia Flyers to a 5-2 home ice win over Thamesford. Cam Davidson had the other in PJHL action Thursday at the Greenwood Recreation Centre. Andrew Jaques contributed three assists and Parker Davidson had two helpers. Ethan Everaert won his fourth straight decision in the Petrolia cage and his tenth

LCCVI’s Darius Landon took three individual titles at the Lambton-Kent Swimming finals, leading his team to a second place finish overall. Landon, who has won four medals at the provincial championships in the last two years, including two gold, won the 200 meter freestyle, the 100 meter backstroke and the 100 meter individual medley races at the LK finals at

Sean Shanahan has been sent to the North Middlesex Stars from the Essex 73’s in a PJHL deal. Shanahan, from Watford, was 11-2 with the 73’s with a 2.01 goals-against average and a .902 save percentage. The LCCVI grad was dealt after the 73’s acquired goaltender Brogan Colquhoun from Elliott Lake of the NOJHL. The Stars are in fifth place

The Petrolia Flyers has reached the 20-win plateau for the first time since the franchise relocated to the hard oil town from Alvinston nearly a decade ago. The Flyers reached the milestone with a 6-5 win in overtime against the Aylmer Spitfires on Thursday night at Greenwood. Petrolia’s previous high win total was 19 registered over the course of the

St. Pat’s and LCCVI are now both 2-3 on the season after the Irish beat the Lancers, 5-2 in Petrolia Wednesday. Dante Andali and Jack Saunders each scored twice for the Irish with the other goal going to Charlie Bulza. Ryan McLachlin and Nathan Reidhead replied for the Lancers. And Nolan McNaught scored twice and Evan Van Sickle had a

Wyoming’s Michael White is a Canadian boxing champion. And he did it in front of a hometown crowd. The LCCVI student of the Bluewater Boxing Club beat Oswald Hohenwarten of Quebec in a 4-1 decision at the 2024 Elite and U23 National Championships hosted by Boxing Canada in Sarnia this weekend. The Wyoming fighter won a unanimous decision over Victor

The North Lambton senior girls’ basketball club reached the final four in the consolation bracket at the OFSAA A tournament 18-team event in Breslau, near Kitchener. After losing its first two games and being eliminated from the championship bracket, the Eagles beat Woodstock Collegiate, 32-27 on Friday setting up a consolation semi-final . Trailing 9-6 to Trinity College, the Eagles

Heather Wright/The Independent Coach Adam Willemse finds it hard to put into words what he’s feeling for his team. “It’s hard to believe so proud isn’t the word,” Willemse said in the wake of the North Lambton Eagles first SWOSSAA title in Senior Girls Basketball which gave the team a berth in the provincial championship tournament. North Lambton qualified by

John Wright/The Independent Evan Van Gorp knows a thing or two about being overlooked. He went undrafted in the 2022 OHL Priority Selection and the 2023 OHL U18 Priority Selection. He doesn’t seem to mind proving the doubters wrong. “There’s so many mistakes in drafts, so (I) just try to keep my head up and try to prove everyone wrong.”

Forest’s North Lambton Eagles has qualified for the OFSAA girls’ basketball tournament for the first time in school history. The Eagles led from wire-to-wire in beating Lajeunese, 40-25 in Windsor for the SWOSSA A championship Tuesday. North Lambton led 14-7 after a quarter and took a 25-10 advantage into the intermission. The Eagles extended their lead to 41-15 after three

Watford’s Evan Van Gorp had a career high five points for the London Knights in an 8-7 win at Guelph on Sunday afternoon. Van Gorp had a goal and four assists and is now averaging a point per game this season with 8 goals and 16 points in 16 games Ex-Sting Max Namestnikov scored four times for the Storm. London