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Medicine Hat News The Medicine Hat Cubs have put themselves in the drivers seat of the HJHL Finals. The Cubs beat the Red Deer Vipers 7-4 Sunday at the Kinplex to take a commanding 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series. Sunday’s win, coming less than 24 hours after Medicine Hat won 6-2 in Red Deer, [...] Read More »

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 »

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Two players from the Iranian women’s soccer team have joined a practice session with a professional club in Brisbane in their first publicly-shared appearance since it emerged they had been granted asylum in Australia. Fatemeh Pasandideh and Atefeh Ramezanisadeh were pictured smiling and wearing the club’s colors as they posed alongside [...] Read More »

CHICAGO (AP) — Josh Giddey had 16 points, 15 rebounds and 13 assists for his fourth triple-double in five games, and the Chicago Bulls blew out Memphis 132-107 on Monday night to hand the depleted Grizzlies their eighth straight loss. Giddey is third in the NBA with 12 triple-doubles this season, trailing Nikola Jokic (27) [...] Read More »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kristaps Porzingis scored 30 points, De’Anthony Melton added 27 and the Golden State Warriors snapped a five-game losing streak with a 125-117 victory over the Washington Wizards on Monday night, earning coach Steve Kerr his 600th career victory. Golden State is without Stephen Curry (right knee) and Jimmy Butler (torn right ACL), [...] Read More »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Kerr could finally celebrate win No. 600. The Golden State coach is one of the fastest to reach the milestone, but after he made it to 599 the Warriors lost five in a row. They snapped that skid with a 125-117 win over Washington on Monday night. “Not a great basketball [...] Read More »

MIAMI (AP) — Ronald Acuña Jr., Maikel Garcia and Luis Arraez hit run-scoring, two-out singles in a seventh-inning rally that led Venezuela over Italy 4-2 on Monday night and into its first World Baseball Classic championship game. Venezuela overcame a 2-0, fourth-inning deficit after rebounding from a three-run hole to beat defending champion Japan in [...] Read More »