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PECI Panther Sr. basketball Central Ontario Champs heading to OFSAA
The PECI Senior Boys Basketball team made school history yesterday by repeating as Central Ontario Champions. Last year, the boys made history by winning the school’s first-ever COSSA title, and they followed it up this season with another OFSAA birth by defeating Nicholson Catholic College 44 – 32 in the championship game played at Norwood […]
Local charter company fishing for support for mobile phone-based walleye tournaments
A local charter company casting for County support of walleye fishing tournaments based on mobile phones received support from the County’s Community and Economic Development Commission. It sought the commission to to contribute $1,500 to form a partnership with the Bay of Quinte Walleye Tournament that is to feature a smart phone app for registration, […]
Senior Boys basketball on a mission for championship
The PECI SR Boys Basketball team made a statement to the rest of the league this week that players are on a mission for the Bay of Quinte Championship. The boys matched up with rival NCC Crusaders Thursday evening in front of a packed gym at PECI. The boys were coming off a big 64 […]
Ribbon cutting officially opens PEFAC’s new accessible cardio space
A ribbon-cutting ceremony showed off how $120,000 in grant funding increased accessiblity for the new cardio space at the Prince Edward Fitness and Aquatic Centre (PEFAC) in Picton. Friday, PEFAC welcomed members, staff, board members and government officials to see how the $100,000 Ontario Trillium Foundation grant, and a $20,000 grant from the County, was […]
Panther Sr. Girls are Trinity College tourney championships
Mission accomplished! The PECI senior girls basketball team won its first tournament championships in more than five years at the Trinity College Invitational Tournament this past weekend in Port Hope. “One of our goals all season was to win a tournament. We’ve had great success over the past five years winning multiple Bay of Quinte, […]
Panther girls ready for weekend’s elite tourney at Trinity
The PECI Panthers senior girls basketball team faces a tough test in Port Hope this weekend at the Trinity College Tournament. “This is an elite tournament attended by both private and public school teams,” said coach Rob Garden. And the goal is a title. “We want to win the tournament. We’ve won a lot over […]
Ontario hockey families County bound Oct. 24-26
Some 700 players and 1,500 parents and siblings are expected to descend upon the County Oct. 24-26 for the 10th Annual Milk Hockey Tournament. “The event features 44 teams from all over Ontario arriving in the community to play hockey, eat and drink, buy gas, drink coffee, and generally soak up PEC life,” reports the […]
You can run but you can’t hide on the Eve of Destruction
By Nicole Kleinsteuber Hundreds of brave race fans stared chaos in the face and screamed for more on the Eve of Destruction at Brighton Speedway. The 52nd season ended with madness as the pits roared with more than 130 engines Saturday. Monster-Enduro A crowded field of 107 cars buckled in, cramming the track for the […]
Tannis Reddy makes history as first female to win County Marathon
Story and photos by Olivia Timm Tannis Reddy made history as the first female to win the County Marathon. The Toronto resident completed the 16th annual full marathon in 2:50:19 with a beaming smile. “I’m really excited and happy. Being the first female is pretty cool and all of the ladies that I passed, everyone […]
McPherson makes Applefest history with Speedway sweep
By Nicole Kleinsteuber Cody McPherson became the first driver in the Applefest Shootout’s 15-year history to sweep Brighton Speedway’s premier double-header weekend. In front of large crowds dialed in for high octane racing, McPherson, a semi-retired DIRTcar sportsman driver from St. Catherine’s, wheeled team Farraday’s No. 66 DIRTcar sportsman to the victory lane both Friday […]
