Pascal

The future of Canadian golf, right in your own backyard. This could easily have been the catch phrase for the 88th edition of the Investors Group Ontario Amateur Golf Championship, according to local club pro, Paul Schweyer.

From time to time, I enjoy letting the content of this weekly column follow the flow of the local sporting scene, essentially providing for a potluck of sporting tidbits gathered in and around Sudbury recently.

It’s been said in the past, on more than one occasion, that summer time in Sudbury provides the chance for local sports reporters to take a step back, relax just a bit and catch their breath in anticipation of another hectic winter.

There are just more than 50 days to go before the City of Greater Sudbury becomes overrun with young athletes, more than 3,000 strong, as this northern Ontario centre plays host to the Ontario Summer Games.

In the world of local sports, there are a handful of inevitablities that almost always seem to arise.

For several decades, the Sudbury Spartans (nee Hardrocks) were as much a part of Sudbury summers as black flies and blueberries.

A lifetime goal achieved, one can hardly blame Kristine Lalonde for taking a moment to savour the pinnacle she has reached.

For first-year coach Dean Henze and the Sudbury Laurentian Swim Club (SLSC), it was a chance to stroke off item number one on the “To Do” list, just a little ahead of the “to be done by date.

It was an injury that would become a blessing in disguise, both for Darren Jermyn, as well as a good number of local middle-distance runners.

There’s a buzz in the air as the local competitive soccer season draws near.