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sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Huff N Puffs 70+ senior slow pitch team brought home some hardware from the World Senior Games. The local 70+ team finished second in the C Division at the Huntsman World Senior Games held in St. George, Utah from Oct.14-18. It’s the same tournament where the Huff N Puffs 55’s senior [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Medicine Hat’s Rowynn Biffart raced for Swim Alberta over the weekend. The Alberta Marlin Aquatic Club swimmer and head coach Jordan Harper were selected by Swim Alberta to join the Aspire Team 2024, based on top World Aquatics Points. Swim Alberta selected eight swimmers, four boys and four girls, to attend the event at [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat U12B Mustangs played two league home games at the Moose Rec Centre this weekend. They hosted the Calgary Bow View Bandits for a pair of games, finishing with a tie and a loss. Zayda Dawson was in goal the first game, a 10-10 tie. Arika McDowall and Brinley Cross each scored [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Monsignor McCoy Colts senior football team still has one more game on the schedule this season. The Colts will host the Catholic Central Cougars on Friday for the B-Side Jerry Dawson Championship Trophy. That game gets underway at 5 p.m. at the Methanex Bowl. The Hat High Hawks are also in action this [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Harrison Meneghin is getting his first look at the Highway 3 rivalry from the other side. The Medicine Hat Tigers goaltender will make his first return to Lethbridge since he was acquired from the Hurricanes in a one-for-one trade on Oct. 5 that sent 19-year-old forward Shane Smith the other way. The two teams [...] Read More »

NISKU, Alta. – Canada’s Kaitlyn Lawes defeated Japan’s Ikue Kitazawa 6-4 on Wednesday at the Grand Slam of Curling’s Co-op Canadian Open. Lawes, from Winnipeg, led by three at the game’s midway point and iced the win with a single in the eighth end. In other early games, Xenia Schwaller edged Silvana Tirinzoni 6-5 in [...] Read More »

TOFIELD, Alta. – A recreation facility equipment supplier has been ordered to pay $200,000 after a worker was killed at an arena in central Alberta. The Alberta government says the worker was conducting demolition and reclamation work at the arena in Tofield, southeast of Edmonton, in March 2022. It says a support beam broke free [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – Connor McDavid is ready to return – well ahead of schedule. The Oilers captain will be back in the lineup when Edmonton hosts the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday. McDavid suffered an ankle injury early in a game against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Oct. 28. The team announced the 27-year-old would miss [...] Read More »

TORONTO – Nathaniel Mitchell has been named as Canada’s head coach for the upcoming November window of the FIBA Men’s AmeriCup 2025 qualifiers. Canada Basketball announced Wednesday that Mitchell will be at the helm for games in Saskatoon against the Dominican Republic on Nov. 21 and Mexico on Nov. 24. Mitchell previously served as the [...] Read More »

TORONTO – Canada coach Jesse Marsch has added Canada Soccer Hall of Famer Dwayne De Rosario and Halifax Wanderers coach Patrice Gheisar to his coaching staff ahead of the November international window. Marsch is currently putting 19 domestic-based players though their paces at a camp in Toronto, ahead of naming a roster for the two-legged [...] Read More »