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The Independent The LCCVI Girls Hockey team is still looking for the first win at OFSSA. The tournament began in Cobourg this morning with the Lancers taking on Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School out of St. Catharines. Caileigh Tiller had five of Holy Cross’ seven goals in the 7-2 win over LCCVI. Ella McCallum and Oliva Minten scored for the

Barry Wright/The Independent Shona Branton won a pair of bronze medals at the U Sports national university swimming championship last weekend in the GTA. She missed a silver medal by a blink of an eye. The veteran swimmer, representing Western, finished third in the 50-metre breaststroke in a time of 30.64 seconds only two/100th of a second behind the second

Barry Wright/The Independent Heading for the final weekend of the OHL regular season, the Soo Greyhounds are clinging to a one point lead over London for home ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs. The Greyhounds have 82 points to London’s 81 with both teams having three games left to play. The Knights take on the Storm in

Barry Wright/The Independent For the third consecutive season, members of the Sarnia Sting will be spectators when the OHL postseason begins next week. Sarnia was officially eliminated from playoff contention with a 6-3 loss to the Windsor Spitfires in Sarnia Friday the 13th. Jack Van Volsen scored first early in the first period depositing a one-timer on a pass from

Heather Wright/The Independent It was not the result Forest fans of Tyler McGregor were hoping for; Canada’s Paralympic Hockey team took home silver after a 6-2 loss to the US at the Paralympic Games Sunday. With the victory over Canada, the US has now won a record-breaking five gold medals in a row in the competition. It was a third

Heather Wright/The Independent Jenny Redick says recreation user fees for non-Brooke-Alvinston residents could drive people away just when the municipality is trying to raise money. The councillor made the comments Feb.26, two weeks after the mayor suggested the fees during a council meeting. Mayor David Ferguson requested council support a staff report getting the names and addresses of the children

The Independent The season has ended for the Petrolia Squires. The home team fell 4-3 in overtime to Elora at Greenwood Friday. After, Petrolia won the series opener, the Rocks reeled off four straight wins to take the Ontario Elite Hockey League semi-final in five games. Friday, after the visitors scored early in each of the first and second periods,

The Independent Goals by Brandon Couto and James McEwan 28 seconds apart midway through the third period broke a 2-2 tie and led the Alvinston Killer Bees to a 5-2 home ice playoff victory Friday. The Bees scored four unanswered goals in the final frame. Alvinston now leads the best-of-seven Metropolitan Division final two games to one. Game four is

The Forest native had two goals in the semi-final win over China Canada defeated China 4-2 setting up a showdown with the US for gold. It’s the third time the Paralympic teams meet in the gold medal game; the US team has won two golds so far. Friday, Forest’s Tyler McGregor scored two in the first period to put Canada up

The Independent Following an historic season where the Sarnia Legionnaires did not earn a single point in 50 straight league games, the Greater Ontario Hockey League has reinstated the previous ownership group from 2024-25 which according to the Legionnaires website included Paul Hurtubise, Theo Bet, Cliff Smith and Terry Lilley. Jon Periard was named general manager of the team last

Heather Wright/The Independent The LCCVI Girls Hockey team is on the way to the provincial championship in Coburg. The team beat the L’Essor Eagles 2-0 to win the AA SWOSSAA Championship title Tuesday afternoon at the Greenwood Recreation Centre in Petrolia. Ella McCallum had both goals for the Lancers, one in the second off the stick of Meagan Munro and

John Wright/The Independent The LCCVI Lancers boys hockey season has come to an end after losing 5-2 to the L’Essor Eagles in the SWOSSAA ‘AA’ final in Tecumseh on Tuesday afternoon. L’Essor scored the lone of the opening period 43 seconds into the frame to take the lead. The Eagles came out hot again in the second period, getting a