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jtubb@medicinehatnews.com CALGARY The CHL USA Prospects Challenge got underway Monday with the teams lone practice before the pair of games begin. Both Team CHL and the U.S. National Under-18 Team practised Monday at Calgary’s Winsport Arena ahead of the first of the two-game series, Tuesday at Calgary’s Scotiabank Saddledome. Medicine Hat Tigers head coach Willie [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com CALGARY After holding down the hatches on Saturday night, Carter Casey kept the Tigers in the fight Sunday. The 17-year-old net minder made 34 saves to backstop Medicine Hat to a 3-2, overtime win at Calgary over the Hitmen. The win caps off a three-in-three weekend and a stretch of four games in five [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com Saturday’s Medicine Hat Tigers win was a shootout in many a way. The Tigers scored three straight goals to comeback and tie the game at 6-6 before beating the Calgary Hitmen 7-6 in the shootout at Co-op Place. “That was a tough one, we’re down 6-3 and Calgary was playing well,” head coach Willie [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Ringette Association will be well represented at the 2026 Alberta Winter Games. Four Mustangs have been named to zone rosters for the 2026 provincial games hosted Feb. 13-16 in the Lakeland Region. The four Mustangs selected are goaltenders Emma Pinnell (Zone 4) and Jacqueline LeBlanc (Zone 6), forward Breanna Lanuk (Zone [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Manners maketh the man – but a new mask for a goaltender? That just completes the look. The Medicine Hat Tigers goaltenders got their new painted masks on Tuesday, allowing Jordan Switzer and Carter Casey to ditch the stark white masks for masks with personal designs. “They turned out really good, I really like [...] Read More »

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — DeMar DeRozan scored 33 points and the Sacramento Kings took advantage of Minnesota’s second straight stunning collapse, rallying late in regulation and outlasting the Timberwolves 117-112 in overtime. On Friday night in Phoenix, the Timberwolves blew an eight-point lead with less than a minute left in a 114-113 loss. Against the [...] Read More »

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — South Africa exerted full control in the second cricket test against India, extending its lead to 395 runs after finishing the morning session on Day 4 at 107 for three. The Proteas recovered from 77-3 with an unbeaten 30-ran stand between Tony de Zorzi, who was unbeaten on 21 off 28 [...] Read More »

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Anders Dreyer scored in the second half and Pablo Sisniega made three saves to lead expansion side San Diego FC to a 1-0 victory over Minnesota United on Monday night in a Western Conference semifinal at a sold-out Snapdragon Stadium. San Diego will host the second-seeded Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday with [...] Read More »

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Brayden Burries and Ivan Kharchenkov each scored a career-high 20 points and No. 2 Arizona got 72 points from freshmen in a 103-73 win over Denver on Monday night. Burries was 7 of 13 from the field, making 3 of 7 from 3-point range, and added seven rebounds, four assists and [...] Read More »

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani plans to play for Japan in next year’s World Baseball Classic, the two-way Los Angeles Dodgers star announced on social media Monday night. Ohtani helped Japan win the 2023 WBC, striking out then-Los Angeles Angels teammate Mike Trout for the final out of the championship game against the United [...] Read More »