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Training Matters: If it works, embrace it
By Medicine Hat News on October 7th, 2016
On behalf of the fitness industry I would like to apologize. We appear to have some identity issues. Are we Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons in the fluffy ankle warmers claiming that nirvana is found at the end of a sweatin’ to the oldies routine? Are we Arnold and his massive compadres showing off our ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rough one for host side
By Ryan McCracken on October 7th, 2016
rmccracken@medicinehatnews.com @MHNMcCracken The outcome was as cold as the weather for the McCoy Colts in Thursday’s Rangeland Football Conference showdown at the Methanex Bowl. While the defence held strong and forced some big turnovers in the early going, the Colts just couldn’t muster a successful drive against the Brooks Buffalos in a 33-0 shutout loss. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rassell racking up minutes as force on penalty kill
By Ryan McCracken on October 7th, 2016
rmccracken@medicinehatnews.com @MHNMcCracken By definition, penalties are punishments. While the thought of a penalty kill will never be appealing, Tigers forward Mark Rassell says the way Medicine Hat has been successfully eating up shorthanded minutes in the offensive zone — and even finding the board while down a man in three of their last four games ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Volleyball season in full swing
By Medicine Hat News on October 6th, 2016
Medicine Hat News Week 3 of the local high school volleyball season wrapped up Wednesday with parity the key word in one division while a pair of teams have jumped out ahead in the other. In varsity boys play Hat High — an opening-week loser at McCoy, beat Senator Gershaw 3-1 (25-18, 25-9, 23-25, 25-21) ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Close games in local peewee football scene
By Medicine Hat News on October 6th, 2016
Medicine Hat News There were a pair of close games in Medicine Hat minor football this week. In the peewee ranks, the Argonauts got by the Sports Connection Tiger-Cats 34-22, with Abdul Kiawen the star of the game for the Argos. Kai Eld, Riley Friesen and Carter Scheider responded with points for the Tiger-Cats. Tuesday ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Historic run for Rattlers’ Martin
By Sean Rooney on October 6th, 2016
srooney@medicinehatnews.com @MHNRooney In many ways it came as no surprise. But Becky Martin knows what she’s accomplished in a few short weeks with the Medicine Hat College Rattlers is no small feat. The 23-year-old was named Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference women’s golf player of the year Wednesday, a given after winning all three provincial tournaments ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tigers score four late goals, Gerlach caps win in overtime
By Ryan McCracken on October 6th, 2016
rmccracken@medicinehatnews.com @MHNMcCracken The comeback kids are back. The Medicine Hat Tigers brought their thrilling brand of come-from-behind hockey back to the Canalta Centre on Wednesday night, stunning the Moose Jaw Warriors 5-4 after erasing a four-goal deficit in the third period and stealing the game away in overtime. “We had a mindset going into the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Curling great Bernard set to give back to youth in Hat
By Sean Rooney on October 6th, 2016
srooney@medicinehatnews.com @MHNRooney Growing up in Grande Prairie, Cheryl Bernard remembers her first time trying to curl. “I was still pretty young and small but they said ‘if you can get the rock down to the other end of the sheet, you can play,'” said the 2010 Olympic silver medalist. “So I put both feet in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Colts to wear pink for awareness during October games
By Charles Lefebvre on October 5th, 2016
Medicine Hat News The Monsignor McCoy Colts will be thinking pink on the gridiron throughout the month of October. The high school football team will switch out their traditional red and black uniforms for pink jerseys through the month to raise awareness of breast cancer, following in the tradition of the CFL and the NFL, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!FAME: A quarter mile at a time: Hawker ladies proof that auto racing isn’t just for guys
By Medicine Hat News on October 5th, 2016
Drag racing may not be the first sport you think of when you think of women in sport, but Brooke Hawker and her mom Marvia Hawker hope to change that. Racing is a passion of theirs and compared with other automotive racing which is primarily male dominated, drag racing is seeing a lot more representation ... Read More »
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