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Jeremy Cunningham of East Elgin Secondary School won both 100 metre fly and 200 metre freestyle races during the Glendale Swim Meet at the Tillsonburg Community Centre on Friday, Nov. 28. EESS’s next meet will be at the Robarts School in London on Jan. 8.

Brent Quiring of East Elgin Secondary School closed in on a London Lucas Secondary School runner during a Thames Valley Regional Central division semifinal against London Lucas Secondary at Citywide Fields in London, Friday, Nov. 14. Lucas won the game 28-14.

Host East Elgin Secondary School Junior football players lined up to attempt an onside kick early in a Thames Valley Central Tier 1 football quarterfinal against London Central Secondary on Friday, Nov. 7. The two teams traded touchdowns until, with EESS ahead 35-34, Central attempted a two-point conversion rather than settling for a single to…

Nic Klassen of East Elgin Secondary School emerged from a pack of teammates and Medway Secondary School players during their last game of the regular season in wet and muddy conditions in Arva, Friday, Oct. 31. EESS won the game 10-3 to finish third in Thames Valley Regional’s London Central first division. Had East Elgin lost, it…

Hundreds of pupils from McGregor and Davenport public schools, Assumption Catholic School and Immanuel Christian School lapped the track at East Elgin Secondary School during “IWalk” on Wednesday, Oct. 29. The event promoted walking and bicycling to school as ways to improve physical fitness through “active living.”

Abigail Davis of Aylmer Optimist Arrows swim team competed in the Mixed 8-9 year old 200-yard freestyle relay during a meet at Ontario Police College, Sunday, Oct. 19. Aylmer placed second in the seven-team event.

Fullback Brody Claessens of host East Elgin Secondary School charged into the London Central end zone to score one of his three touchdowns of the game, Friday, Oct. 10. EESS won the game 34-21.

Jeremy Cunningham of East Elgin Secondary School neared the end of the Junior boys 6.36-kilometre cross-country race during a meet at Springwater Conservation Area on Thursday, Oct. 2. The invitational meet was attended by several high schools.

Kendra Nesbitt of host East Elgin Secondary School kept the ball away from an Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute defender during a girls field hockey game on Tuesday, Sept. 23. EESS won that game 2-1 and, in the second of a doubleheader, Glencoe District High School 5-0.

Aylmer Jr. C Spitfires goalie Michael Mommersteeg could only watch as the puck trickled behind him during his team’s home opener of the season at East Elgin Community Complex on Saturday, Sept. 20. A defenseman teammate of Mommersteeg’s dived in an attempt to clear the puck away but he and a North Middlesex forward ended…