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Nassen living for the moment
By RYAN MCCRACKEN on March 21st, 2019
rmccracken@medicinehatnews.com@MHNMcCracken Linus Nassen isn’t one to fret for the future; he’s living in the moment. The 20-year-old Medicine Hat Tigers defenceman is set to enter his final Western Hockey League post-season when his squad drops the puck against the Edmonton Oil Kings on Saturday at Rogers Place, but he isn’t looking at it a last ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rassell excited to win championship
By RYAN McCRACKEN on March 19th, 2019
rmccracken@medicinehatnews.com @MHNMcCracken It’s a good thing Mark Rassell didn’t skip shoulder day. The 22-year-old Medicine Hat Tigers alumnus became a national champion Sunday after scoring a goal and adding an assist to lead his University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds to a 4-2 victory over the Alberta Golden Bears on Sunday at the Enmax Centre ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rassell’s Reds defeat Owre, Cox, Kirichenko and Sanford’s Golden Bears to win U Sports national championship
By DALE WOODARD on March 18th, 2019
sports@lethbridgeherald.com@DWoodardHerald Through his junior career, the Enmax Centre was probably a hostile environment to Mark Rassell. On Sunday night, it probably felt just like home as Rassell and University of New Brunswick Reds downed the University of Alberta Golden Bears 4-2 to win this year’s Cavendish Farms U Sports University Cup Men’s Hockey National Championship. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tigers ready to embrace underdog role in opening-round series with Oil Kings
By RYAN MCCRACKEN on March 18th, 2019
rmccracken@medicinehatnews.com@MHNMcCracken The Tigers avoided a date with the top team in the Western Hockey League, only to meet up with the hottest. By going 4-2-1-0 down the stretch, Medicine Hat managed to clinch the Eastern Conference’s first wild card with a 35-27-4-2 record, leaving the Red Deer Rebels (33-29-4-2) to fight for their playoff lives ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tigers fall in finale
By RYAN MCCRACKEN on March 18th, 2019
rmccracken@medicinehatnews.com@MHNMcCracken It may have been a meaningless game in terms of the standings, but the Medicine Hat Tigers and Lethbridge Hurricanes still recorded another riveting chapter in the Highway 3 rivalry in Saturday’s regular season finale at the Canalta Centre. Nick Henry scored twice and Bryan Thomson stopped 29 shots to lead the Hurricanes to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Easy part’s over: Bakos, Sonnenberg lock up first qualifiers at U18 provincial curling championships
By RYAN MCCRACKEN on March 16th, 2019
rmccracken@medicinehatnews.com@MHNMcCracken Julia Bakos and Cortland Sonnenberg grabbed hold of the first qualifiers at the Curling Alberta Optimist U18 Provincial Championships after a pair of wildly close matchups on Friday afternoon at the Medicine Hat Curling Club. Bakos rebounded from a slow start by taking three in the fourth end before holding on for a 7-6 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Colts to play for bronze at girls basketball provincial championship
By Medicine Hat News on March 16th, 2019
The McCoy Colts will play for bronze Saturday after falling 84-60 to the WR Myers Rebels on Friday at the Alberta School Athletics Association 3A girls basketball championship. McCoy opened their tournament with a 65-48 win over Morinville Thursday. They’ll meet up with St. Peter the Apostle School to play for bronze Saturday at 2:30 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rattler men split opening day at ACAC futsal championship
By Medicine Hat News on March 16th, 2019
The Medicine Hat Rattlers men’s futsal team bounced back from an opening loss at the ACAC championship to split their first day at Lethbridge College on a split. After falling 5-2 to the Olds Broncos in the first game of the tournament Friday morning, the Rattlers rebounded to take a convincing 8-2 win from the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Two Bulldogs reach podium
By Medicine Hat News on March 15th, 2019
Madison Kane-Rissling and Elic Ayomanor led the Medicine Hat Bulldogs Track and Field Club to a few podium finishes at the Alberta Indoor Track and Field Championships and Canadian Masters National Indoor Championships over the weekend in Edmonton. Kane-Rissling took home a silver medal in the under-20 women’s triple jump and bronze in the high ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Big night at the Kinplex
By SEAN ROONEY on March 14th, 2019
srooney@medicinehatnews.com@MHNRooney When the atom female Wildcats booked the Kinplex for provincials last year, they had no reason to worry about an ice time crunch. After all, when was the last time multiple Medicine Hat minor hockey teams were playing into mid-March? And at home? Tonight, it’s a good problem to have as their midget AA ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Men’s Bonspiel opens busy month of curling
By Medicine Hat News on March 9th, 2019
An action-packed month of curling kicked off this weekend at Medicine Hat Curling Club with the annual Men’s Bonspiel. Nearly 40 teams will be out on the sheets for the event, which closes out with the championship round on Sunday at 2 p.m., but that’s only the beginning of a non-stop March to come. Alberta’s ... Read More »
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