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bmiller@medicinehatnews.com Three local bowlers are heading to Edmonton over the weekend to take part in the three-day Youth Bowl Canada Five-pin Nationals that kicks off at the Bonnie Doon Bowling Centre May 5. Fourteen-year-old Cage Deering is set to represent Alberta in the Junior Boy Singles event, while 11-year-old Bree McGloin and Kallie Deering will [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Spokane Chiefs will be in Medicine Hat next weekend to face the Tigers in the WHL Finals. The Chiefs won the Western Conference in sweeping fashion, beating the Portland Winterhawks 6-4 Thursday night in Game 4 of the West Finals. With Medicine Hat sweeping the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Wednesday, the 2025 WHL Finals [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Ontario Hockey League Finals brings an essence of deja vu. The London Knights won a third straight Western Conference Championship, sweeping the Kitchener Rangers on Wednesday to advance to the OHL Finals. They’ll face the Oshawa Generals for the second year in a row. Oshawa took down the Barrie Colts 8-4 on Thursday, [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers’ elder statesmen led the way against the Lethbridge Hurricanes. The overage duo of captain Oasiz Wiesblatt and Mat Ward turned their play up a notch as Medicine Hat pushed Lethbridge to the brink and eventually swept their Highway 3 rivals. Wiesblatt, continuing his 25-game point streak, scored the overtime game [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Ringette Association honoured its own Wednesday night. At the association’s annual general meeting, MHRA handed out accolades for the 2024-25 season. Medicine Hat Ringette recognized four AGM awards for goalie of the year, official of the year, volunteer of the year and coach/coaching staff of the year. Jacqueline LeBlanc of the [...] Read More »

BOSTON (AP) — Jalen Brunson and OG Anunoby each scored 29 points before Mikal Bridges stole the ball from Jaylen Brown with a second left in overtime as the New York Knicks stunned the Boston Celtics 108-105 in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinals series on Monday night. Karl Anthony-Towns added 14 points and [...] Read More »

ATLANTA (AP) — AJ Smith-Shawver took a no-hitter into the eighth inning and the Atlanta Braves beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 on Monday night. Santiago Espinal led off the eighth with a clean single to center field for Cincinnati’s lone hit. He was later erased on an inning-ending double play. Smith-Shawver (2-2) was trying for [...] Read More »

MIAMI (AP) — Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman homered and the Los Angeles Dodgers roughed up Sandy Alcántara again for a 7-4 win over the Miami Marlins on Monday night. Mookie Betts and Teoscar Hernández each had two hits for the Dodgers, who have won eight of nine and began a 10-game road trip. Hernández [...] Read More »

ATLANTA (AP) — Cincinnati Reds rookie left fielder Tyler Callihan broke his left forearm while attempting a sliding catch against the Atlanta Braves on a play that turned into an inside-the-park home run Monday night. With two outs in the third inning, Callihan was chasing down a fly ball from Matt Olson and briefly made [...] Read More »

ATLANTA (AP) — AJ Smith-Shawver’s bid for a no-hitter was broken up when Santiago Espinal led off the eighth inning with a clean single to center field, giving the Cincinnati Reds their first hit against the Atlanta Braves pitcher Monday night. Espinal’s base hit came on the 93rd pitch from Smith-Shawver, who worked into the [...] Read More »