Just because there is snow on the ground doesn’t mean high school students can’t start training for soccer. Thanks to the East Hants Sportsplex soccer dome, the Suburban Football Club (FC) has put together a skill development program to help soccer players get back into shape before the summer season. “It’s a great opportunity for them, especially in this facility,” said Mike Senz, president of East Hants Soccer and one [...]

LANTZ: Matt Anthony wrote his name into the East Hants Junior Penguins record books, while Justin Campbell saw his 11-game goalless streak come to an end. The two feats came as the Penguins swept a home-and-home set with the Fred Fox division cellar dwelling Eastern Shore Mariners Feb. 10-11 in Lantz and Musquodoboit Harbour. Matt Anthony picked up four assists in the contest to put in atop the team leaderboard. [...]

LANTZ: Matt Anthony scored the game-winner as the East Hants Junior Penguins eked out a 3-2 overtime victory over the Bay Ducks Feb. 3. The two Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League teams played a scoreless first period with the Penguins holding a huge 21-8 shot advantage. Bay Ducks’ goaltender Tom Nicholson was called upon several times to keep the Penguins off the board. In the second, Ducks’ Dustin Campbell broke [...]

LETHBRIDGE, ALTA.: Playing baseball year-round was something that was enticing for Sean Harvie. The Gormanville product left home a couple years back after being scouted by an official with the Prairie Baseball Academy (PBA) in Lethbridge, Alta., during the Canada Cup in Kindersley, SK., when he represented Team Nova Scotia. He got the chance to play the sport he loves, while getting an education at the same time at PBA. [...]

LETHBRIDGE, ALTA.: A knock came at the door to the room Colby Turple. It was a teammate of Mitch MacLean and Tanner Craswell with some tragic news for the Kennetcook native and his roommate. MacLean, of Cornwall, and Charlottetown’s Craswell—known as Cras to his many friends and fellow teammates—along with Tabitha Stepple were killed by Derek Jensen in an early morning murder-suicide that also saw Shayna Conway also get shot, [...]

The Hants North Rural High Flames senior boys’ basketball team finished just short of a playoff spot in the 2012 New Waterford Coal Bowl Classic The Flames sported a respectable 2-2 record during the week long national tournament starting on Jan. 30 and ending with the championship game on Feb. 4. The tournament brought teams from as far as British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Quebec, and representatives from Atlantic Canadian provinces to [...]

KENNETCOOK: Luke Ettinger got a taste of what it’s like to race on a road course inside a world-famous short-track—a taste he hopes to experience again in the future. Ettinger won the INEX Canadian Bandits Championship based on results from bandolero races at INEX-sanctioned tracks, with those being Speedway 660 in Geary, N.B., near Fredericton, and Scotia Speedworld in Enfield. The bandits class is for those under 12-years-old, and Ettinger [...]

SHUBENACADIE: Cole Tanner has extra motivation to keep his school marks up—to hit the track in his bandolero racing machine. That’s the one condition that Tanner’s dad, Jack, gave his 12-year-old son, who is a Grade 7 student at South Colchester Academy in Brookfield. Tanner just wrapped up a successful rookie campaign at Scotia Speedworld and Speedway 660 in Geary, N.B., by being awarded the INEX Canadian Outlaw championship for [...]

LANTZ: The East Hants Junior Penguins are looking to regain the winning touch that had them on the path to success during the first half of the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League season. The Penguins will be happy to see the calendar turn to February after a 3-4-0-0 (win-loss-overtime loss-shootout loss) record, including three losses in their final four games of the month which saw them score just 10 goals, [...]

LANTZ: Matt Doudelet’s stick was on fire scoring a hat-trick, but it was two newly acquired players that helped push the East Hants Junior Penguins to victory on Jan. 13. Melvin Day turned away 38 of 41 shots he faced in his debut between the pipes for the Penguins, and Mitchell Elgi picked up an assist as East Hants defeated the Sackville Blazers 5-3 at the Kieth Miller Arena in [...]