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Barry Wright/The Independent Brennan Feasey is returning to the Alvinston Killer Bees for the coming senior hockey season. “Brennan’s elite scoring ability, leadership, and relentless work ethic make him a game-changer every time he steps on the ice,” said the team in making the announcement. “His return gives the Killer Bees another major weapon as we set our sights on

Barry Wright/The Independent Kaden Babcock has been named an assistant coach with the Chatham Maroons of the Greater Ontario Hockey League. He was the assistant equipment manager with the Sting last season, served as an assistant coach in the Lambton Jr. Sting organization and played 10 games of senior hockey with the Petrolia Squires. He previously played junior hockey with

Barry Wright/The Independent Liam Hackett and Rhys Marriott finished one and two in the boys’ U16 200-metre hurdles finals at the Ontario U14, U16, U18 track and field championships and combined events in St. Catharines last weekend. Hackett crossed the line in 26.55 followed by Marriott at 27.05. Both are LCCVI students. Meantime, Kole Chapman came in second the U18

Barry Wright/The Independent Lambton Jr. Sting grads Jack Nesbitt and Cam Reid are among 32 players in Windsor this week for the Hockey Canada Summer Showcase. It’s the first look at potential players in advance of the World Junior Hockey Championships in Alberta beginning on Boxing Day. The first round draft choices of Philadelphia and Nashville respectively, will be teammates

Barry Wright/The Independent Kaden Aucoin of the Sting and Sarnia’s Matt Henderson of the Kingston Frontenacs are at the Hockey Canada U18 team evaluation camp this week in advance of the Hlinka-Gretzky tournament in Edmonton next week. Aucoin, a dual citizen, had two goals and seven points in 61 games last season as a rookie in Sarnia. Henderson, who parents

Barry Wright/The Independent The board of Sarnia Hockey Association has unanimously approved a plan to have its teams were a memorial patch on its uniform shoulder in honour of Dane Nisbet this season. All A/AA, B/BB and MD teams will wear the patch that has been approved by the Dane’s mom, Tracy. Nisbet is a graduate of Sarnia minor hockey

Barry Wright/The Independent The Wyoming Wranglers came up just short in the Ontario Rural Softball Association (ORSA) 15U girls’ provincials last weekend. They lost to Shakespeare in the final. After an opening round loss to Innerkip, the Wranglers won three straight games to reach the championship contest. Nadia Eagan had a 10-RBI performance, including a grand slam home run, in

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.