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Medicine Hat News The Medicine Hat Cubs draw first blood in the HJHL Finals. The Cubs, starting on the road for the first time this postseason, beat the Red Deer Vipers 6-2 Saturday night for a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five league finals. It’s the first appearance in the HJHL finals for the Cubs who [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com A Saturday night of flip-flopping scripts saw the Medicine Hat Tigers get the final line. The Tigers overcame a pair of two-goal deficits to come back and beat the Lethbridge Hurricanes 6-5 in overtime at Co-op Place. With the win the Tigers sweep the season series with the Hurricanes 8-0. Liam Ruck scored on [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Kaitlyn Ross is going pro. The Redcliff product has signed a 10-day, PWHL players agreement with the Ottawa Charge, the team announced Friday. The 24-year-old played five years at Mount Royal University, in 78 games she had a 55-20-3 record with a 1.42 goals against average and a .945 save percentage, working 13 shutouts. [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Stand firm at the gates, the Medicine Hat Cubs are ready for their first shot at an HJHL title. The best-of-five HJHL Finals series gets underway Saturday with Game 1 in Red Deer before the Cubs host the Vipers for Game 2 at the Kinplex on Sunday. After a week of practice, head coach [...] Read More »

The Medicine Hat Tigers opened the weekend on a winning note. They won 6-3 Friday night in Lethbridge, beating the Hurricanes for the seventh time this season. Defenceman Jonas Woo scored on a power play in the third period, fittingly assisted by his D-partner Bryce Pickford, setting a new franchise record for points by a [...] Read More »

ROME (AP) — Substitute Vitinha and Leo Ostigard scored in Genoa’s 2-0 win at last-place Verona in the Italian league on Sunday as Daniele De Rossi’s side moved even further away from the relegation zone. Genoa is in 13th place with 33 points after 29 rounds, nine points above 18th-place Cremonese. Serie A leader Inter [...] Read More »

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Bruno Fernandes moved closer to breaking the Premier League ‘s assists record as Manchester United tightened its grip on Champions League qualification with a 3-1 win against Aston Villa on Sunday. Fernandes provided assists for two of United’s goals to take his tally for the season to 16. The record for [...] Read More »

ST. JOHN’S — A Newfoundland junior hockey league executive says a recent game that involved three on-ice brawls and resulted in 572 penalty minutes is a “black eye” and an “embarrassment” to the sport in St. John’s. Boyd Hillier, vice-president of the St. John’s Junior Hockey League, says the violent game was an isolated incident [...] Read More »

All the metrics, analytics and number crunching in the world cannot erase the most important statistic attached to the team that has captured college basketball’s imagination and its curiosity leading into March Madness. Miami of Ohio’s record is 31-1. The Redhawks were the first college basketball team in five years to enter their conference tournament [...] Read More »

MUNICH (AP) — An unlikely run of injuries has sidelined Bayern Munich’s top three goalkeepers and could mean the German champion starts New York-born 16-year-old Leonard Prescott for its upcoming Champions League game against Atalanta. With first-choice Manuel Neuer recovering from a calf muscle tear, Prescott was on the bench in the Champions League last [...] Read More »