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New Vikings coach up to the challenge
By JAMES TUBB on August 30th, 2022
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Scott Wendell spent his junior high years at Crescent Heights in the early 2000s before donning Hat High green in high school. As he makes his return to Crescent Heights this season as head coach of the varsity football team, he already can’t wait to take on his old school and former coach. “It’s ... Read More »
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By Medicine Hat News on August 30th, 2022
The Medicine Hat Speedway hosted its penultimate points day this weekend. The Speedway held the Bumper-to-Bumper (action parts) race Saturday with five main event races. Jon Rissling won the Rocky Mtn. Equipment Hobby Stocks race with Ethan Guest coming in second place. Trevor Neigum won the Davis GMC Elite Streets race, followed by Art Paetkau ... Read More »
1 responseRutledge wins 7th PGA of Canada Senior Championship
By JAMES TUBB on August 27th, 2022
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Medicine Hat and Connaught Golf Club were on full display this week during the PGA of Canada Senior Championship. The national three-day tournament wrapped up Friday as event favourite Jim Rutledge led after each round, winning his seventh PGA Canada Seniors’ Championship with a final score of 16 under par (64,70,66). Rutledge’s tournament win ... Read More »
1 responseColts gear up for first test under new coach
By JAMES TUBB on August 26th, 2022
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The McCoy Colts are gearing up for their first exhibition game tonight in Strathmore against the Spartans. Head coach Jole Krassman said that first game will give them a guide for what they can work and focus on this season. “It’s been an uphill struggle trying to get everything ready, new systems, new team ... Read More »
1 responsePGA of Canada Senior championship underway
By JAMES TUBB on August 25th, 2022
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Canada’s top senior golfers kicked off their championship week on a “perfect day for golf.” The PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada hosted at Connaught Golf Club got underway Wednesday as golfers navigated the course while embracing the comfortable mid 20s weather. Hatter Trevor Ellerman described the weather as perfect as he shot an opening ... Read More »
2 responsesInside the CFL: Injuries are the great equalizer
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on August 25th, 2022
With 1:46 gone in the fourth quarter last Friday in Regina, Nathan Rourke slipped to the turf. Teammates carried him to the sideline where the trainer wrapped an ice pack around his right foot. It was disclosed that he would undergo surgery to repair the Lisfranc ligament, the most critical ligament in the middle of ... Read More »
1 responseHat High Hawks focused on game by game approach
By JAMES TUBB on August 25th, 2022
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Hat High Hawks football team enters the 2022 season looking to defend their Rangeland Football Conference championship from 2021. But don’t ask them about it because they’re taking the season one game at a time. “As far as setting team goals, I know for a fact that Rangeland will always be one of ... Read More »
2 responsesA return to Medicine Hat 70 years in the making
By JAMES TUBB on August 24th, 2022
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb It had been 70 years since Nat Bates had played baseball in Medicine Hat when he made his return Tuesday. The 90-year-old played for the Medicine Hat California Mohawks in 1950 before joining the all-Black professional baseball team, the Indian Head Rockets the next summer, who were inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of ... Read More »
1 responseUniversity exhibition football game in Hat on Thursday
By JAMES TUBB on August 24th, 2022
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb High-end football will be on display Thursday night in Medicine Hat. The University of Regina Rams are taking on the University of Alberta Golden Bears in an exhibition game Thursday night at the Methanex Bowl. Brian Semenok has played a part in organizing this exhibition game in Medicine Hat for the last six years ... Read More »
1 responseHeller, McElroy-O’Driscoll win Medicine Hat Open Tennis Tournament
By JAMES TUBB on August 23rd, 2022
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Open had repeat winners this weekend. Calvin Heller won his ninth men’s singles open championship and Dannan McElroy-O’Driscoll won her second straight women’s singles open championship Saturday, the final day of the five-day tournament. Heller defeated Jordan Schibler 6-1, 6-2 in the men’s singles final. “It’s fun to play in the ... Read More »
1 responseBocce athletes enjoy local worlds qualifier
By JAMES TUBB on August 23rd, 2022
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Despite the heat, Saturday’s locally held Special Olympics bocce qualifier was a success. The Special Olympics held the bocce world qualifier for Alberta at the Medicine Hat Lawn Bowling Club on Saturday with 40 athletes from the Hat, Lethbridge, Edmonton and the Yukon participating in the event for a spot on Team Alberta for ... Read More »
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