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Rutledge 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 »
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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 »
1 responseTigers trade 2021 second rounder Buttazzoni to Portland
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on August 23rd, 2022
The Medicine Hat Tigers announced a trade Monday afternoon. The Tigers traded forward prospect Diego Buttazzoni to the Portland Winterhawks in exchange for two conditional draft picks, a 2024 second-round pick and a conditional 2025 fourth-round pick. Immediately after the trade, the Winterhawks announced they had signed the Langley B.C. product to a standard player ... Read More »
1 responseConnaught set to host PGA Canada Seniors’ Championship
By JAMES TUBB on August 20th, 2022
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Connaught Golf Club is soon to be centre stage in the PGA Canada golf world. The PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada gets underway Wednesday at Connaught as 47 of the country’s top senior golfers compete on the local course. Connaught general manager Jeffrey Roy said it will be exciting for the three-day tournament that ... Read More »
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