Category: Other Sports
Other Chatham-Kent sports including lacrosse, swimming, tennis, soccer, cross country, track and field, and golf.
Flat Chase Was a Baseball Legend | Black History Month
Born in Buxton, Ontario in 1910, Earl “Flat” Chase was one of the region’s top young baseball players in the first half of the 1900’s. ... Read More
Toronto Blue Jays Skills Camp Coming To Chatham
The Toronto Blue Jays have announced that the Chatham Minor Baseball Association has been selected once again to host of a 2022 Honda Instructional Clinic at Fergie ... Read More
Carleton Leads As Canada Punches World Cup Ticket
Bridget Carleton was Canada's leader as Team Canada punched its ticket to the 2022 World Cup in Sydney, Australia. “We came here and did what ... Read More
Kucera Sisters Power Saints To Season Opening Win
The St. Clair College Women’s Basketball team was eager to get back on the SportsPlex court Wednesday night and fashioned a gritty 67-63 win over ... Read More
When Jim Dudley Came To Bat | Black History Month
Jim Dudley was one of the best ball players Chatham-Kent has seen. As a teenager, Dudley, who also went by James, and J.C., played baseball ... Read More
From A Pulpit To The Super Bowl – Tony Dungy’s Roots Are In Chatham-Kent | Black History Month
Tony Dungy became the first Black NFL coach to win a Super Bowl title when he led the Indianapolis Colts to a title in Super ... Read More
Joe Louis’ Ties To Chatham-Kent | Black History Month
Joe Louis remains one of the history's greatest boxers. Louis also had ties to Chatham-Kent. Louis’ parents were born of freed slaves. When he came ... Read More
The Buxton Bloomers, Chatham-Kent’s First All-Black Women’s Fastball Team | Black History Month
The Buxton Bloomers In recent years, the story of the Chatham Coloured All-Stars has been told in a variety of mediums. Their place in history ... Read More
Beselaere Commits To Lambton College
Chatham basketball player Marissa Beselaere has committed to play basketball for the Lambton College Lions in 2022-23. Beselaere, a UCC Lancers student, is Lambton's first ... Read More
Little NHL Cancelled For Third Straight Year
The Walpole Island Hawks Atom team at the 2019 Little NHL tournament The Little NHL, Ontario's largest and longest running hockey tournament for Indigenous youth ... Read More
What A Catch: Before Fishing, The Izumi’s Were A Baseball Family
Joe Izumi, Harry Izumi, and Mits Izumi stand posed with the Chemainus Nippons in 1939 The name Izumi is synonymous with fishing, but it wasn't ... Read More
Maddie Depencier Headed Iowa Western
Local softball player Maddie Depencier will play college softball next year for Iowa Western after committing to the school. Depencier felt Iowa was the best ... Read More
The Day World Champion Ned Hanlan Rowed Through Chatham
His strokes were a thing of beauty travelling down the Thames River through Chatham to the cheers of adoring fans. In the summer of 1880, ... Read More
Nicholas Representing More Than Just Canada
Breanne Nicholas has been one of Chatham-Kent’s top athletes for a decade, a point which she solidified this past summer competing with Team Canada’s Rugby ... Read More