Sports

This year’s North Perth Chamber of Commerce golf tournament was a smashing success. On June 21, the Listowel Golf Club welcomed 23 teams from local businesses across the municipality for a fun day of golf.

The student-athletes at Listowel District Secondary School got their chance to participate in the first full-scale, unabated Huron-Perth sports season this past year for the first time since 2018-19, and they certainly made the most of it.

The Elma U11 Express capped a dominant display of baseball by defeating host Ingersoll in its tournament held this past weekend. Elma went 3-0 in the round robin, crushed Exeter 18-4 in the semifinals and then topped Ingersoll 17-13 in the finale. “It was a team effort, with strong pitching, solid h

The Listowel 11U OBA squad went undefeated in a tournament hosted by the Ingersoll Ironbirds to capture the top prize on June 23-25. Listowel collectively outscored its opponents a whopping 66-18 over the course of its five games played. Pictured, back row from left: Coaches Austin McCourt, Chad Kay

The 2023 North Perth Minor Soccer League season is well underway.

The future of Listowel Minor Baseball was on display June 15 at Optimist Park, when Rookie Blue took on Rookie Black in 2023 regular season action.

The sounds of horseshoes and good times filled the air at the Listowel Legion on Saturday afternoon, as the annual Roy Bean Memorial Horseshoe Tournament was played. The pits were filled most of the day with pitchers under blue skies. Pictured: Peggy Wiens watches her pitch sail across the pit.

Given the season that Harrison Meulensteen had in 2022-23, his recent signing with the Listowel Junior Cyclones for the upcoming campaign may be the least surprising news of the off-season.

More than 2.5 billion people across the globe consider themselves a fan of cricket. However, in our small corner of midwestern Ontario, the game has failed to catch on. Until now.

Howick Minor Ball hosted its annual Howick Minor Ball Day on Saturday, June 17 at the Fordwich Ball Park. All of the Howick Hawks teams participated in games throughout the day. There was also a silent auction, raffle and concession booth.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Bruce North Huron has enjoyed over 25 years of success through its Kincardine-based Golf Fore Kids’ Sake fundraising tournament, and by all indications the first go-round of the Wingham-based tournament last week will result in the start of an equally-successful tra

The topic of installing ice at one of the two arenas in South Bruce a month earlier than usual was a hot one at the June 13 council meeting.

Lots of fun was had at Listowel Minor Ball Day on June 10 throughout the Memorial Park area in Listowel.

Elma Minor Ball Weekend was a home run. The weekend saw its teams play some serious ball June 9-10 at the Elma-Logan Recreation Complex’s ball diamonds.