London Lightning: This one wasn’t even close

The sweetest way to put a one-point loss in the rear-view mirror is to blow out that same team a few days later. The Lightning made sure it didn’t come down to the wire this time with a 25-point drubbing of the K-W Titans, 107-82 Wednesday at Budweiser Gardens. London improved its National Basketball League […]

Fans flocking as league-best London Lightning seek to dig deep

Forget that 30-point win over a seven-man Flint squad. Although it counts in the National Basketball League of Canada standings and drew nearly 4,400 fans Sunday at Budweiser Gardens, the London Lightning don’t feel like it was a solution to back-to-back losses in Albany and Kitchener. “The hard truth is that Flint team didn’t have […]

Home-court blowout puts London Lightning back in win column

When Josiah Mastandrea was 14 years old, his father Vinnie called up a hard-nosed hoops coach in Vancouver to see if he could make his son tough. “Josiah wasn’t supposed to play college basketball at that point,” London Lightning bench boss Doug Plumb recalled. “We put him through an absolute gauntlet for 2-3 years and […]

London Lightning: Heave-ho, 12 in a row?

The London Lightning have dominated the first half of the National Basketball League of Canada’s comeback season. Fitting, then, they took control early to knock off the Windsor Express for their 11th straight win, 110-103 Sunday at Budweiser Gardens. The Bolts overcame a late Express surge, the deadly shooting of long-time all-star Billy White and […]