Sports

The OFSSAA West Regional track and field championships are taking place at Alumni Field in Windsor.

The Huron Lakers sent five teams to the Gus Macker 3-on-3 basketball tournament in Port Huron May 24-25 and the Sarnia teams swept the medals, finishing first, second and third.

A little-used Afton Drive park is about to become an active soccer pitch again. Sarnia’s GallaDev Soccer Academy has received permission to use Woodstone Park for its boys and girls soccer programs.

The first overall pick in the 2014 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection last month has agreed to terms on a player agreement and education package with the Sarnia Sting.

Sarnia's Northern Collegiate was nosed out by LaSalle's Sandwich Secondary School for the overall SWOSSA high school track and field title on May 23.

Local students were introduced to a variety of different sports during the Sports Day Multicultural Elementary Games.

Another warm weather sports option is coming to Sarnia. St. Catharines-based organizers Paul Barbas and Vytaa Daraska will run the Sarnia Outdoor Ball Hockey League this summer at a new outdoor rink at Hiawatha Horse Park.

The sport of frisbee has come a long way from the days of people tossing a disc around the park or beach.

- Bruce Smith photo Skyla Minaker of Northern Collegiate clears a hurdle at the Southwestern Ontario high school track and field championship in Chatham on Wednesday. Minaker set a new SWOSSAA record in the midget girls 80m hurdles with a time of 12.

Boady Santavy, 17, poses with junior and senior kindergarten students at Rosedale Public School, after winning three gold medals in weightlifting in Peru.