The snow is melting away and the temperatures are getting warmer, which means golf season has arrived. Another good indication is the open houses, slated for this weekend, at Ainsdale Golf Course and Somerhill Golf Club. The sister courses, run by the Mackay family, will open their ...
The Ripley Wolves and Shallow Lake Crushers traded home wins on the weekend, to open the WOAA Sr. ‘A’ final. Friday night, the Wolves were shell-shocked in the early going, down 4-1 after the first period in Shallow Lake. They battled back in the second, but couldn&...
The competition didn’t get sticky until the finals, but the Kincardine Home Hardware Novice Rep. Kinucks fought to an undefeated record to win the annual Maple Syrup County tournament in Elmvale over the weekend. Kincardine opened the tournament against the Seaforth Stars...
The Kincardine Battling Battler Midget girls brought home silver medals from the WOAA year-end tournament held in Tara and Chatsworth on the weekend. The girls assembled in Tara Saturday morning for a 9:30 a.m. match against the West Grey Warriors. The Warriors took the lead 33 second...
The Kincardine Montgomery Ford Midget girls "C team is winding down its season. The team went to Walkerton Thursday for an exhibition game against the Walkerton girls "B" team, to warm up for the big weekend ahead. The girls worked on practices over March break and this ...
The Ripley Raven boys basketball team earned a hard-fought championship at the South West Regional tournament March 25 at Kincardine District Secondary School. In their first game the Ravens challenged Lucknow. A much-improved Lucknow team proved to be worthy opponents for Ripl...
The Ripley Raven girls basketball team won the South West Regional basketball tournament March 25. Ripley faced Lucknow in the first game and dominated the play right from the beginning, winning 43 - 7. Ripley’s fast passing was too much for Huron Heights in the next game...
The Ripley Wolves have prevailed in a hard-fought, seven-game battle with the Milverton 4-Wheel Drives. The Wolves took Game 7, by a score of 5-2, at home Tuesday night (March 24), and will now face Shallow Lake in the ‘A’ final beginning this weekend. Game 1 goes ...
The Kincardine Boston Pizza Atom AE team took to the ice for the final time this season in the Aylmer tournament this past weekend, and brought home the silver medal. The Kinucks came out hard Friday night in the first game against Wallaceburg. They played hard and it showed in the sco...
The Ripley Wolves lost on home ice Friday night but defeated the Milverton 4-Wheel Drives on the road Sunday afternoon, to push the 'A' semi-final series to Game 7, tomorrow night (March 24) at the Ripley Arena, beginning at 8:30 p.m. Milverton edged the Wolves, 4-3, in...
The Ripley Wolves and Milverton 4-Wheel Drives are tied at two games apiece in their ‘A’ semi-finals, after weekend Senior "A" hockey action. The two teams are developing a healthy dislike for each other, turning this series into a chippy affair. The Wol...
The Ripley Wolves won Game 1, but lost Game 2, as they began their semi-final series against the Milverton Drives last weekend. At the Ripley Arena Friday night, March 6, Milverton took a 1-0 lead into the second, but the Wolves stormed out in the middle frame and scored two quic...
The Ripley Ravens girls basketball team took the championship at the Walkerton District Community School elementary girls tournament March 10. Ripley faced Port Elgin Saugeen Central in the first game and it was a very fast-paced match with the Ravens coming out on top. 36-8. ...
For the Canadian Tire-sponsored Kincardine Atom Kinucks, the challengers on the road to the All-Ontario final have come and gone. They weathered the Storm of Saugeen Shores and sailed by the Listowel Cyclones. The Coyotes of Elmvale were soon tamed, leaving the Parry Sound Shamrocks as...
The Canadian Tire Atom girls rep. team returned from Brantford with gold medals and a championship banner after participating in the annual Walter Gretzky tournament March 6-8. The Kinucks were feeling confident after qualifying for the provincial championships a week earlier by ...
The Kincardine Sobeys Peewee "B" girls rep. hockey team has won first place in the Lower Lakes female hockey league loop. A small but mighty team of 10 girls, plus an outstanding goalie, pushed past injuries and viruses throughout the three rounds of playoffs, taking ea...
The Kincardine Miller Insurance Midgets came within one minute and 14 seconds of a place in the OMHA final during their Game 5 match-up with the Parry Sound Shamrocks, Sunday. Not only that, Parry Sound stole the tie and advanced to the final with a heartbreaking winning goal 39 seconds f...
The Kincardine Battling Battler Midget girls took to the road Feb. 27 to March 1 for the Fifth Annual Clearview March Madness in the Valley hockey tournament. Game 1, Friday, paired the Battling Battler Midget girls against the Cambridge Roadrunners. An end-to-end battle ensued...
The Ripley Ravens girls basketball team won the Kincardine District Secondary School invitational tournament held March 3 at KDSS. Ripley defeated F.E. Madill of Wingham in the championship game. The Ravens' fast passing, rebounding and accurate shooting proved to be too much as th...
Although both teams have already secured a spot in the ‘A’ semi-finals in Senior "A" hockey action, the Ripley Wolves hosted the Lucknow Lancers Sunday afternoon, in a re-scheduled game, and came away with an 8-7 overtime win. Goalie Jason Reid faced 37 ...