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Courtright’s Dustin Jeffrey is being inducted into the Sarnia Sports Hall of Fame. He’s one of nine people and one team who are in the Class of 2025. Jeffrey played 131 National Hockey League games with Pittsburgh, Dallas and Arizona, scoring 18 goals and 15 assists for 33 points. Counting his time in the American Hockey League and European loops

Barry Wright/The Independent Mark Guy says Sting fans owe a debt of gratitude to David Legwand.  One of the new owners of the OHL club says Legwand had opportunities to sell the team to outside interests that would have moved the franchise but resisted those overtures. Guy, a former NHL player agent and Ryan Finch, a successful businessman, were introduced

The Independent Declan Watson has a new gold medal to his credit.  The Northern secondary school student, from Plympton-Wyoming, won the men’s 79-kilo class at the Canadian Junior Weightlifting Championship in Saskatoon on the weekend. His winning total of 265 kilograms included 120 kilos in the snatch category and 145 kilos in the clean and jerk. Watson trains with the

The Independent About 200 pros are headed to Alvinston this weekend for the sixth annual Alvinston Pro Rodeo. The Brooke-Alvinston-Watford Fair Board started the event in 2019 after local rodeo pros Tyler Foster and Rod Weese were tearing up the world rodeo championships. Foster had won the International Professional Rodeo Association World Champion Steer Wrestler and Weese won the International

Kole Chapman, Xander Knapp and Megan Munro all won two events each at therecent CK Relays in Chatham. Chapman won the junior boys’ 100 metre and 300 metre finals setting a record inthe longer of the events. His time of 44.14 seconds was almost two seconds fasterthan the previous meet record set a decade ago. Munro crossed the finish line

John Wright/The Independent Mt. Brydges Bulldogs President Andy Friyia called it “the scariest moment I’ve ever witnessed live in a hockey game.” He’s talking about a devastating injury to Jaxon Moorhouse of the Bulldogs at the Greenwood Recreation Centre in game five of the Yeck Division semi-final series. Two players who were battling for the puck behind the net fell

The Independent The Forest Xtreme will represent Ontario this week at the Eastern Canadian Ringette Championships in Quebec. They are in suburban Montreal panning for gold in the under-16 division involving teams from Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. Forest opens the round robin portion of the tournament with a game against the PEI Edge tonight. Games continue on Friday with

The Independent Soon another banner will be on display at the Watford Arena. The Lambton Lightning won five consecutive contests last weekend to capture the championship in the Senior C division at the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association provincials in the GTA.   They defeated the Honeywood Badgers, 4-1 in the final.  Lambton had beaten Cornwall, 4-1, blanked Otonabee, 8-0, edged Waterloo, 1-0

Barry Wright/The Independent Dale Hunter’s London Knights have cruised into the second round of the OHL playoffs with a four-game sweep of the Owen Sound Attack.   Evan Van Gorp of Watford had three assists and was chosen as the second star in London’s 8-4 series clinching win at the Bayshore in Owen Sound April 3. London scored six or

John Wright/The Independent The dream run for the Petrolia Flyers came to an end on Thursday night, losing 6-2 to the Essex 73s in game four of the West Conference Final at Greenwood Recreation Centre.  Petrolia came out strong, outshooting Essex 14-9 in the first period. Goaltender Adrian McBride stood tall for Essex, turning aside every shot sent his way

The East Lambton Eagles are proud owners of prestigious red hats after capturing the under-15 Tier 1 OMHA banner in Halton Hills on the weekend. The Eagles reached the playoffs with wins over Penetang, 4-1, Ennismore, 6-3 and Arran-Ernsdale, 4-3 in the preliminary round. They rallied for five unanswered goals in the second period to beat Wallaceburg, 8-6 in the

Barry Wright/The Independent The Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League has renamed some of its awards, including those in honour ofSarnia’s Pat “Whitey” Stapleton and Bill Lochead of Forest. The Pat Stapleton Memorial Award will go to the Most Valuable Player in the league’s Western Conference and the Bill Lochead Award will be given to the Western Conference’s Most Gentlemanly Player.