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June 05, 2013
LONDON – The Listowel District Secondary School Lightning have a new WOSSAA champion in track and field. Grade 9 student Erica Ten Hove won the gold medal in midget girls shot put on May 23 in London at Western University with a shot of 8.83 metres.
She moved on to compete in the next meet at Jacob Hespler Secondary School last Friday. Ten Hove is seeded fourth, with the top four competitors moving on to the All-Ontario Championships in Oshawa the first week of June. Two sisters, Erin and Nicole See LDSS, page 22
Katerberg round out the Listowel Lightning team qualifying for the next meet at the OFSAA West Regional Track and Field Championships this past weekend in Cambridge. Grade 11 student Erin Katerberg finished fourth in senior girls high jump with a leap of 1.60 metres. She is the defending champion in the junior division at WOSSAA, west regionals and OFSAA in high jump. Erin has been constantly jumping higher throughout the season with hopes of peaking at the next two meets.
June 05, 2013
SPECIAL TO THE BANNER LISTOWEL – The Ben Binning Memorial Golf Tournament (BBMT) started three years ago as a fundraiser hosted by Sinclair Construction to raise money for Ben Binning, who was battling leukemia, his fiancée Lindsay and son Riley. Binning was a tradesman at Sinclair Construction, and a friend of the Sinclairs. In August 2010, just days before the golf tournament, he lost his battle. Not knowing what to do and with a sold-out event, organizers proceeded with the tournament, which turned out to be both difficult and positive. Over the next three years, the tournament continued and that is how the BBMT became what it is today – a memorial golf tournament honouring an amazing young man. Sinclair Construction no longer hosts it, but they are still a big part of it along with Binning’s family and friends.
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June 05, 2013
PALMERSTON – It was a valiant effort on all fronts, but the Norwell Redmen senior girls soccer team was unable to win a Central Western Ontario Secondary Schools Association (CWOSSA) championship on home turf last week.
The second year in a row NDSS has hosted the event, six area girls and boys high school teams battled for the regional title on May 29 and 30. Placed in a pool with Grey Highlands (Flesherton) and Paris District High School, Norwell beat both teams 1-0 and 2-1 respectively in round robin play to move onto the semifinals.
June 04, 2013
Rain washes away final day of Ryder Cup event with ‘Young Guys’ trailing by 11 points
June 04, 2013
Last year, Trevor Henry made headlines as the top dash-winning driver in Canada. This year, he could make international headlines as the World Driving Champion.
June 04, 2013
Long-time baseball coach to be honoured
June 04, 2013
Several veterans also returning for 2013-14 campaign
May 30, 2013
Goes two-under-par over his final 13 holes
May 29, 2013
EXETER – While it may seem like a throwback to medieval times, pigeon racing is still happening in the area – at least for the time being.
May 29, 2013
EXETER – The South Huron Rush opened their 2013 season with two victories.
May 29, 2013
LONDON – Seven athletes from South Huron District High School have qualified for OFSAA West Regionals track and field in Cambridge Friday and Saturday.
May 29, 2013
Lesley (Burton) Zehr spent much of Wednesday and Thursday, May 22 and 23, at the North Huron Wescast Community Complex pool, swimming laps. She’ll be in Wingham until the end of the month, when she returns to Waterloo where she usually trains.
She remarked on the calm, turquoise water at the Wingham pool, something she won’t be seeing much of when she attempts her 75-kilometre solo Lake Huron crossing, from Harbour Beach, Michigan, to Goderich, July 26-29.
May 29, 2013
The weather had the members of the Wingham Golf and Curling Club confused this past week. A few of the members were not sure if they should be carrying their golf clubs over their shoulders, or their curling brooms. Despite the cold wet days some of the diehards still managed to get a few rounds in and the course conditions are improving daily.
On Tuesday, May 21, nine brave ladies bundled up for ladies night. Shirley O’Malley was winner of the longest putt gift certificate.
The Wednesday morning senior men played in the best conditions of the week. The group had 18 golfers hit the links with Bill Johnston coming out on top with Wayne Gordon second and Bob Foxton third. Harry George took home the prize for longest putt. Don Bone birdied the ninth hole to tie his closest rival Ed Daer for low gross, both shooting 40.
May 29, 2013
PALMERSTON – The Palmerston Ball Hockey League got started on Tuesday, May 7 with the new team, the Blue Ballers, opening the season with a big 3-2 shootout win over the long-time returning Dynos.
There are seven teams competing in this year’s league. With the Clash folding, the defending champions Lords of Mordor are hoping for a new team to give them a run for their money in this year’s finals as they and the Clash needed a tiebreaker game last year in the championship to decide its victor. Other games on May 7 included the Violators beating the Average Joes 6-3 and the Canadian Beavers taking their game 3-1 over the Gators.
May 29, 2013
MOUNT FOREST – The North Wellington Bravehearts Special Olympics Five-Pin Bowling Club had its year-end party on May 18 at the Mount Forest Bowling Centre.
This year featured 26 bowlers in the club. Every Saturday morning from October to May, the bowlers showed off their skills.
The following bowlers won awards this year:
May 29, 2013
The Centre Wellington Mohawks had their best finish overall at the field lacrosse provincials May 18-19.