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The Independent The LCCVI Junior Girls’ basketball team is going to SWOSSAA. The Lancers beat North Lambton Secondary School 44-15 on their home court Friday afternoon. The team will be heading to Windsor Thursday to take on the winner of Brennan and Erie Migration who play in Windsor Sunday.

Barry  Wright/The Independent What’s old is somewhat new again for the Petrolia Squires. The local senior hockey team along with the Delhi Flames have  joined the Ontario Elite Hockey League for the coming season. The 18-team OHA and Hockey Canada sanctioned league includes many opponents from the Squires’ previous stops in the now-defunct Western Ontario Athletic Association loop as well

Barry Wright/The Independent The Wyoming Cattlebarons are on a heater. They have now won eight straight and are unbeaten in their last 10 contests after winning three straight Western Counties senior games last week. The defending OBA champions ran their record to 12-1-2 with a 9-3 win over the Pirates in Port Lambton on Sunday afternoon. Braeden Nickles had three

London Knights fans will get a chance to see the Memorial Cup up close. Watford’s Evan Van Gorp will bring the cup to the Watford Cornfest Saturday, Aug. 9 from 1 to 3 pm. He and the Knights captured the top prize in junior hockey earlier this year in Quebec. Saturday, there will be time for fans to get up

LCCVI takes home a dozen medals in Day One at the SWOSSAA Track and Field Championships. Hunter Campbell took home gold in Senior Men’s Discus with a throw of 43.69m about five meters more than his nearest competitor. James Grant won the Men’s Junior 1500m with a time of 4:24.02. Hunter Mitchell was first in the Men’s Junior 100m Hurdles

CCVI seniors Jack Helps and Hunter Campbell continue to have success leading up to the LKSSAA track and field championship later this month. Helps won the senior boys’ triple jump at a pre-meet at the new track facility at Sarnia’s Great Lakes Secondary School Tuesday while Campbell was tops in the senior boys’ shot put. Other winners from the boys

Skaters from the Brooke-Alvinston Skating Club were getting lessons from Canadian Olympic Skater Elvis Stojko. Lindsay Alderman, the president of the club, says the coaches submitted an application for a coaching clinic with the silver medalist and his wife, Gladys Orozca, several years ago and received a call about a month ago saying a spot had opened up. Alderman says

Shona Branton (won four medals and was named Swimmer of the Meet at the U Sports Swimming Championship in suburban Montreal on the weekend. The Port Lambton native won gold medals in the 50 and 100 metre breaststroke events, setting new university records in both races. She also captured a silver in the 200 metre breaststroke and was third with

Barry WrightThe Independent Carson Peer was surprised to the point of being speechless when he was named Rookie of the Year by the Sarnia Legionnaires for the 2019-20 season.“I didn’t expect it at all,” said the Oil City product when the announcement was made online last weekend.The Grade 11 student at LCCVI had seven goals and six assists in 49