Rattlers Roundup: Rattlers women’s cross country finishes third

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on October 15, 2024.

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The Medicine Hat College Rattlers women’s cross-country team equalled their top finish of the season over the weekend.

Racing at the Augstana Open in Camrose, the Rattlers’ women’s team finished in third, with two top-10 finishes from captain Maddie Scrimger (ninth) and rookie Ellie Barlow (10th). The team finished a mere four points behind the second-place team from Lethbridge Polytechnic, while Red Deer Polytechnic won the women’s race.

MHC’s other finishes were sisters Mizuki (22nd) and Aki Iwata (32nd), Hannah Ulm (33rd) and Addison Weir (39th).

The MHC men finished ninth overall in the men’s race. Spencer Wilson (26th) and Gage Smith (27th) were the top MHC runners, with Taylor Rumberg (42nd), Claudio Requena (46th), Elijah Lavoie-Pierzchala (47th) and Griffin Goodfellow (48th) rounding out the team.

Next up for the MHC runners is the ACAC Championships in Calgary on Oct. 26.

Soccer

The Rattlers men’s and women’s soccer teams had a difficult weekend on the road.

The men’s team lost both games, falling 4-1 to the Olds College Broncos on Saturday and 3-0 to the Red Deer Polytechnic on Sunday.

Erik Amberson scored for MHC on Saturday, Stefan Vrska made seven saves. Against Red Deer on Sunday, Vrska made one save.

The women’s team picked up a point in a 0-0 draw with Olds College on Saturday. They lost 3-0 to Red Deer on Sunday.

Rylan Morhart started both games in goal for the Rattlers, making 14 saves on Saturday and seven on Sunday.

The Rattlers men’s (3-3-2) and women’s (3-5-2) wrap up the regular season this weekend, facing the SAIT Trojans on the road Saturday and the Lethbridge Kodiaks at home on Sunday.

Golf

Seven members of the Rattlers’ golf team are at the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association championship this week at Humber College in Etobicoke, Ont.

The Rattlers men’s golf team of Michael Valk, Rylan Hodgson, Rylan Montgomery, Keelan Burzminski and Jace Shannon, and two women’s golfers, Kiara Reesor and Taryn Sanderson, will compete against the top college golfers in the country.

Play gets underway today with the tournament wrapping up Friday afternoon. Medicine Hat’s Valk is looking for redemption, taking second place at last year’s CCAA championship. He enters the week off back-to-back ACAC championships and the ACAC male golfer of the year award.

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