Local roundup: Butler wins OFSAA gold; Flyers swept away; Flags' Dupuis repeats
Five local wrestlers won medals at the OFSAA championship this week in Hamilton.
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Five local wrestlers won medals at the OFSAA championship in Hamilton this week.
Lucy Butler of Great Lakes won the girls’ 38-kilogram division for her second consecutive gold medal.
Wolfpack teammate Katie Brooks won bronze in girls’ 57.5 kg.
Mackenzie’s Duke Butler was fourth in boys’ 47.5 kg for his second straight antique bronze.
Lambton Central’s Layla Callister won antique bronze in girls’ 44 kg and Griffin Wittliff of St. Patrick’s won antique bronze in boys’ 95 kg.
Two more wrestlers reached the podium with sixth-place results: Northern’s Kensi Pollard in girls’ 64 kg and Vito Salamanca of St. Patrick’s in boys’ 57.5 kg.
Great Lakes was seventh in the girls’ team standings and St. Patrick’s was ninth in the boys’ team standings.
The other LKSSAA wrestler to medal was Ursuline’s Alyssa Crummer, who won antique bronze in girls’ 51 kg.
Bronze for Santavy at Pan Am meet
Sarnia’s Boady Santavy won a bronze medal at the Pan American senior weightlifting championships in the men’s 89-kilogram division with a snatch of 168 kg recently in Caracas, Venezuela.
Santavy retired after missing his next two snatch attempts and didn’t take part in the clean and jerk.
“It’s disappointing, because training has gone really well,” he said on the International Weightlifting Federation website.
“I don’t know why, but I just didn’t feel good today, and my head wasn’t there for the 207(-kg) clean and jerk I’d have needed (to move up a few places). It wasn’t worth risking it.”
Stars sweep Flyers from PJHL playoffs
Caleb Kennedy scored and Ethan Everaert made 32 saves in the Petrolia Flyers’ 4-1 loss to the North Middlesex Stars in the Provincial Junior Hockey League’s Yeck Division playoffs Thursday.
The third-seeded Stars swept the quarter-final in four games.
They broke a 1-1 tie in the second period and added two goals in the third before 432 at the Greenwood Recreation Centre.
Flags’ Dupuis wins monthly award
Mooretown Flags forward Dylan Dupuis has won his second straight PJHL Stobbs Division player of the month award after posting 6-12-18 totals in eight regular-season games in February.
Dupuis also won the conference’s scoring title and was fifth in the PJHL with 79 points in 42 games.
The Flags were on the brink of elimination going into Game 5 of their quarter-final Friday in Wheatley.
The fourth-seeded Sharks took a 3-1 series lead with Wednesday’s 4-1 win before 295 at the Mooretown Sports Complex.
Landon Marcy scored and John Chartrand made 32 saves for the fifth-seeded Flags.
If the Flags win Friday, Game 6 is Saturday in Mooretown at 7:30 p.m.
Centre Schmidt commits to Lions
Six-foot-eight centre Darius Schmidt of Waterdown has committed to the Lambton College men’s basketball team for next season.
“Hopefully fans see a lot of rebounds from me,” Schmidt said in a statement. “I also like to get out and run in transition, as I like to play a fast-paced game. I’m just really looking forward to this opportunity and I can’t wait.”
The Waterdown District secondary schooler plays club basketball for the Burlington Force. He’s the fifth player to commit to the Lions for the 2024-25 season.
“Darius is a great signing for our program,” Lions head coach James Grant said. “He is a tremendous athlete who we expect to help us on both ends of the court . . . We have put an emphasis on getting bigger and more athletic moving ahead, and Darius checks both of those boxes.”
Rapids swimmers going to provincials
Three Sarnia Rapids swimmers have qualified for Ontario championships in June after doing well at the Western Region short-course championships recently.
Logan Ewart and Matteo Fanelli can go to the Ontario festival championships in Etobicoke and Aili Girardi has qualified for the Ontario youth-junior championships in Markham.
The Rapids sent 27 swimmers to the Western Region meet in London. They combined for 76 top-10 finishes.
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