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Isaac McLean scored twice and Jakob Knowles made 45 saves to lead the Petrolia Squires to a 6-3 win over the Irish in Stratford Wednesday. The Irish still lead the best-of-seven Ontario Super Hockey League quarter final, two games to one. Game four is at Greenwood on Friday night. Zach VanEyk, Curtis Helps, Adam Craievich and Steve Beenackers also scored

John Wright/The Independent Four local athletes had the chance to show off their skills at the 2025 OFSAA Wrestling Championships in Kitchener on Tuesday and Wednesday. Ellie Callister, Carson Toms, and Abbi White were the members of LCCVI’s team that qualified for the provincial meet. Anna Havryliuk was the lone representative for North Lambton Secondary School. Callister (girls 51KG division),

The Alvinston Killer Bees inched closer to a first round sweep with an 8-5 home ice win over Dunnville in Ontario Super Hockey League playoff action on Friday night. Brennan Feasey scored four times for the winners, including an empty net marker. Ethan Lamoureux and Jacob Chantler had three assists each. Jayden Lammel, James McEwan, Carson Perry and Grant Spence

It appears there was more rust than rest in Petrolia’s 8-2 loss to Stratford in Ontario Super Hockey League action at Greenwood on Friday night. The Squires had not played a game in four weeks prior to last night’s playoff opener. Adam Craievich and Ryan Trottier scored for Petrolia. Game two is Saturday in Stratford.

The Petrolia Flyers has advanced to the second round of the PJHL playoffs for the first time since the team located from Alvinston nearly a decade ago.Tobias Iantorno had his second straight hat trick along with an assist and Ryan Richardson scored twice to lead the Flyers to a 7-1 win over the Irish in Lucan on Wednesday completing a

The Lambton-Kent Cardinals are the Lambton-Kent Boys hockey champions. The Cards defeated three-time LK champs 2-1 in a shootout at Ken Houston Memorial Agricultural Arena in Dresden Monday. Max Avery got the Cards on the scoreboard midway through the second. Roen Douglas tied it up for the Lancers with 3:23 left in the third. An overtime period did not settle

John Chartrand made 60 saves in backstopping the Mooretown Flags to a 4-2 win over Blenheim at the Moore Sports Complex to open the Stobbs Division playoffs. The number of saves was a playoff career high for the third year netminder. Dylan Dupuis scored twice for the Flags Saturday with singles going to Casey Schouten and Jack Baerg before a

There will be Ontario Super Hockey League playoff action at Greenwood in Petrolia Friday as the Squires host the Stratford Fighting Irish in the first game of their bests-of-seven conference quarter final. Game two is set for Saturday night in the Festival city. Dates for the remainder of the series are to be announced in the coming days. Tillsonburg beat

It’ll be Petrolia’s LCCVI and Dresden’s Lambton-Kent Composite for the LKSSAA boys’ A/A/A hockey title at Ken Houston Memorial Agricultural Centre Monday. The Lancers advanced with a 10-0 win over Wallaceburg Wednesday in one semi-final while the Lambton-Kent Composite beat North Lambton, 3-1 in the other semi-final Thursday in Dresden. Lambton Jr. Sting goaltender Kyler Van Esse was the winning

The Petrolia Flyers began the PJHL playoffs firing on all cylinders in a 7-0 win over Lucan in game one of their best-of-seven Yeck Division quarter final. The home team was credited with 72 shots in the victory at Greenwood Rec Centre Thursday. Tanner Hull’s goal in the opening minute of the game was all the Flyers needed to register

The Petrolia Squires will know tomorrow who their playoff foe will be for the first round of the Ontario Super Hockey League playoffs. Tillsonburg is scheduled to take on Stratford in the Festival city tomorrow (Saturday) with third place up for grabs to the winner. The game is a make up game from one postponed last weekend due to inclement

Landen Hookey has hit the 30-goal mark with the OHL’s Owen Sound Attack this season. He scored what proved to the game-winning goal midway through the first period on Thursday as the Attack beat the Colts, 5-1 in Barrie. The win moved Owen Sound past the Soo for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Both teams have 13