Selecia Wall of the East Elgin Youth Basketball Club’s Bantam team, right, battled for the ball with two St. Thomas Shock players including Moira Haldenby (#6) during a game played at East Elgin Secondary School (EESS) in Aylmer on Friday evening, Jan. 20. The East Elgin Eagles came from behind after a slow start to…
Elijah Krahn of host East Elgin Secondary School drove for the Glencoe District High School hoop during a Junior boys basketball game on Thursday, Jan. 19. EESS won the encounter handily, 54-25.
Dalton Wall of host East Elgin Secondary School snagged a high pass during a Senior boys basketball game against Parkside Collegiate Institute on Wednesday, Jan. 18. The game remained close through the first half, but in the second PCI crept ahead for a 51-44 victory.
Tyler Macpherson of host East Elgin Secondary School attempted a wraparound goal during a boys hockey game against Glencoe District High School at East Elgin Community Complex on Wednesday, Jan. 18. EESS won the game, its last of the regular season, 5-1 to finish in first in Thames Valley Regional South with a record of…
Matt Saunders leaped into the air as he and fellow Grade 11 and 12 dance students prepared Monday night, Jan. 16, for public recitals this Wednesday, Jan. 18, and Thursday, Jan. 19, starting at 7 p.m., at East Elgin Secondary School. They were rehearsing “Ballroom Blitz,” a fusion of ballet, jazz, ballroom and hip hop…
East Elgin Secondary School’s Tim Nanephosey took a shot after stealing the ball in his team’s end of the court and racing it to the Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute hoop during a Senior boys basketball game, Friday night, Jan. 13. EESS was hosting an eight-team weekend tournament. East Elgin defeated Ingersoll 60-39 and squeaked by Kingsville 50-48…
Morgan Blair of host East Elgin Secondary School tried for a lunging save, which failed, just moments after a similar move that ended successfully, during a Senior girls vollebyall game against Parkside Collegiate Institute, Thursday, Jan. 12. EESS lost the match one game to three.
Ali VanGorp of host East Elgin Secondary School was on tiptoes as she dug a Parkside Collegiate Insitute serve during a Junior girls volleyball game on Thursday, Jan. 12. PCI swept the match in three straight games.
Shooting guard John Orlebar, left, of the Summers Corners Public School Senior boys basketball team dribbled past Tiekae Dillard of St. Thomas Locke Public School on his way towards the basket during a home exhibition game, the first of the season, on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 11. Locke’s won the game 26-16.
Dylan Brower of East Elgin Secondary School played with the puck as he helped kill a penalty on teammate Hunter Luscombe, in the box, during a boys hockey game against host Central Elgin Collegiate Institute at the Timken Community Centre in St. Thomas, Wednesday, Jan. 11. EESS won the game by a nose, 4-3.
Rayah Wilson of host East Elgin Secondary School got tangled up with a Woodstock Collegiate Institute player during a girls hockey game at East Elgin Community Complex, Thursday morning, Jan. 12. EESS led comfortably 3-1 in the third period when Woodstock woke up and launched intense attacks, tying the game with 1:30 left. But East…
Sparta area resident and local curler Craig VanYmeren will return to this year’s Men’s Ontario Recharge with Milk Tankard in Cobourg Jan. 29-Feb. 5. It will be his fourth appearance in as many years. The Tankard is the annual Ontario men’s curling championship with the winner representing the province at the 2017 Tim Hortons Brier,…