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Alyssa Blair of East Elgin Secondary School, right, corralled the ball and then dribbled past a West Elgin Secondary School defender during a girls soccer game in Aylmer on Wednesday, May 6. East Elgin won 3-1 to improve their Southeast Division record to two wins and one loss.

East Elgin Secondary School boys soccer player Derek Folkard, right, kept the ball away from a West Elgin Secondary School defender during a  game in Aylmer on Wednesday afternoon, May 6. East Elgin won 4-0 to improve their undefeated Southeast Division record to four wins and no losses and their overall record to 12 wins,…

Cassidy Clark, right, of East Elgin Secondary School sprinted to an eighth-place finish in the highly-competitive 100-metre Junior girls sprints during the annual Kettle Creek Invitational track and field meet at Parkside Collegiate Institute in St. Thomas, Saturday, May 2.

Mackenzie Brackenbury of Straffordville Public School lined up a shot on the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Public School net during a championship tournament for local elementary School basketball teams at Parkside Collegiate Institute, Thursday, April 30. Straffordville won this game 17-14.

Springfield Public School’s Kayla Voros, left, was chased by South Dorchester’s Kaleigh Kummer when their teams met during the final regional Junior elementary school girls basketball tournament of the season at East Elgin Secondary School in Aylmer on Friday afternoon, May 1. East Elgin also hosted the final regional elementary school boys tournament of the…

Springfield Public School Junior boys basketball player Evan Jones tried to jump past New Sarum Public School’s Evan Jones in an attempt to make a shot during their season-ending regional tournament at East Elgin Secondary School in Aylmer on Friday afternoon, May 1. New Sarum won that game and later qualified for the championship final…

Justin Grunsell of East Elgin Secondary School kicked the ball away from a London Laurier player during the annual Gemini Cup soccer tournament in Tillsonburg, Friday, May 1. EESS won three of its four games that day.

Young anglers with some experienced advice tried their luck during the Mahlon Hale Children’s Fishing Derby at the East Elgin Sportsmen’s Association pond northeast of Aylmer on Saturday morning, May 2. Several children and their parents, grandparents and other family members attended the event. Children under age 16 could fish for free.