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sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat U17AAA South East Tigers enter the AEHL playoffs on a high note The Tigers beat the Lethbridge Hurricanes 8-1 Saturday before winning 3-2 in overtime Sunday at home over the Calgary Flames. Hayden MacNeil led the offence in Saturday’s win with two goals and an assist. Illya Khazov had two goals, [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Rattlers men’s relay team hit the podium twice at the ACAC Indoor Track Championship this weekend. MHC, led by Askia Tahrou, Christian Panagay, and twins Daniel and Joshua Friesen, raced to a pair of podium-worthy finishes at the championships in Edmonton. The men’s 4 x 200m team finished second in a school record [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Four Medicine Hat female minor hockey teams took home banners this weekend. The Medicine Hat Wildcats captured four banners across three age groups. The U13A Wildcats beat Red Deer in a best-of-three series for the Rocky Mountain Female Hockey League Championship. They captured the title with a 7-0 win Saturday at the Hockey Hounds [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Heritage Junior Hockey League has announced the game times and dates for the league finals. The South Division champion Medicine Hat Cubs will take on the North Division and regular season champion Red Deer Vipers in the best-of-five league finals. Red Deer holds home ice advantage in the final, hosting Games 1, 3 [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers wrapped up a tough slate with a grand prize. The Tigers finished a stretch of four games in five days with a 6-1 loss Saturday in Edmonton to the Oil Kings, seeing their win streak snapped at nine games. To come out of the difficult week on and off the [...] Read More »

The Green Bay Packers are adding one cornerback in free agency while moving on from another just one year into a four-year contract, two people with knowledge of the moves said Tuesday. The Packers have agreed on a $10.5 million, two-year deal with Benjamin St-Juste, and the club has informed Nate Hobbs of a plan [...] Read More »

NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA and the players’ union are set to meet Tuesday to continue discussions on reaching a new collective bargaining agreement as a deadline to get the season started on time is at hand, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity [...] Read More »

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark called his meeting with President Donald Trump and other high-level officials from the NCAA, its member institutions and the CEO of the U.S. Olympic team “very constructive,” and underscored his belief that the SCORE Act is the best path forward for college athletics. Yormark spoke [...] Read More »

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — The New York Mets optioned Canadian pitching prospect Jonah Tong on Tuesday to Triple-A Syracuse. The 22-year-old right-hander was 2-3 with a 7.71 ERA last season with the Mets. Tong, a native of Markham, Ont., made a rapid and extraordinary rise last season from seventh-round pick in the amateur [...] Read More »

Michigan won three of the top four Associated Press Big Ten men’s basketball awards Tuesday, with Yaxel Lendeborg voted player of the year and top first-year transfer and Dusty May named coach of the year. Illinois’ Keaton Wagler was the unanimous choice for freshman of the year in voting by a panel of 16 media [...] Read More »