Sarnia’s Ron Fogarty has been named head coach of the men’s hockey team at Princeton. The St. Patrick’s High School grad and former Sarnia Ranson Bee forward leads all active NCAA coaches in win percentage, but takes over a struggling hockey program at the famed Ivy League university. Fogarty is the son of Mike and… Read more »
Local teams swept the top spots at the most recent Sarnia Lawn Bowling Club tournament. Blake McKay and Ed Braithwaite of the host club won men’s top honours June 18 at the On-Line Sealing event. Dave Moffitt and Bill Recor were second and Nick Symes and Ralph Archer third. Ten teams from Sarnia and Michigan… Read more »
Caroline Hummell is not one of those athletes who began excelling at a sport as a toddler. In fact, the 18-year-old basketball star has only been playing hoops for six years. Hummell said she was a shy pre-teen and her mom gave her the choice of attending a drama camp or a basketball camp to… Read more »
Perhaps the next Eugenie Bouchard or Milos Raonic is already honing his or her skills at the Sarnia Riding Club. The club reports a spike in interest in the sport, partly because of the success of two rising Canadian stars on the professional tour. Kids as young as four are signing up for the QuickStart… Read more »
Young athletes from Sarnia did well at the first two stops of the 2014 Little Caesars Junior Tennis Tour in Southwestern Ontario. Andrew Davies, 13, placed second in the boys’ 18-and-under event in Chatham on June 7 after winning the same event on the first stop in Amherstburg on May 31. Davies is a member… Read more »
The Sarnia Saints Women’s Rugby team was no match for Stratford on June 7 when they drubbed the visitors 105 to 0 on home turf. The saints scored 13 tries in the first half and six more in the second. Here, Arlene VanReenen shrugs off a defender at Norm Perry Park. The women Saints return… Read more »
Seven Sarnia athletes won nine medals at the Ontario high school track and field championships last week. Sebastian Smith of Northern Collegiate and Cole Campbell of Alexander Mackenzie Secondary was each a double medalist, but a bronze won by Cormac Brown was perhaps the most compelling story. The St. Patrick’s High School long jumper had… Read more »
The new president of the Sarnia Sting wants the franchise to reconnect with the community. Bill Abercrombie made the comment at a news conference at the Hive Bar and Grill at the RBC Centre to announce his appointment, as well as the appointment of Nick Sinclair as team general manager. “We will continue our school… Read more »
Not many 12-year-olds can claim to be part of a national championship team. But Amy Bladon of Sarnia’s Bluewater Gymnastics Club can. Bladon was a member of Team Ontario, which captured gold at the Novice Women’s Artistic Gymnastics team competition at the Canadian Gymnastics Championships held recently in Ottawa. The top three scores from the… Read more »
Holly Delavigne didn’t enter the Canadian Squash Championships in Edmonton thinking she’d win her division. After all, she was competing against players who had been playing more while she studied and played collegiate squash at Western University. But, in the end, the 23-year-old won four matches, including two against highly seeded players, to capture the… Read more »
