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jtubb@medicinehatnews.com The Western Hcokey League Championship series gets underway tonight at Co-op Place between the Medicine Hat Tigers and Spokane Chiefs. Both teams made it to the league final after four-game sweeps in the Conference Championship series, the first time in WHL history both third-round series have ended in a sweep. The Tigers swept the [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers’ rookies are looking to get more than an experience from the WHL Championship series. Medicine Hat’s first-year trio of Markus and Liam Ruck and Shaeffer Gordon-Carroll have been relied upon all season long, stepping in as 16-year-olds, Gordon-Carroll starting the year at 15, running the Tigers’ fourth line in name [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Two of the Medicine Hat Tigers’ key offseason acquisitions look to make good on their May 2024 promises. Defencemen Bryce Pickford and Jonas Woo were acquired by the Tigers at the 2024 WHL Draft, both bringing WHL playoff experience and looking to help Medicine Hat get back to the Championship series for the first [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The 2025 Western Hockey League Championship series will be a fairytale-like story for one of the Medicine Hat Tigers or Spokane Chiefs. Both teams waited over a decade since their last trip to the finals and last championship, Medicine Hat in 2007 and Spokane the next year. They’ve each endured beyond trying years as [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Spokane Chiefs have done a lot of things the right way to make it to the WHL’s Championship series. They hope they can continue it for a few more weeks. The Chiefs look to represent the Western Conference well as they take on the Medicine Hat Tigers in the WHL Final, looking for [...] Read More »

TORONTO — Defender Lee Stecklein has picked a good time to get her goal-scoring groove on. She scored twice and assisted on another in the Minnesota Frost’s 5-3 road win over the Toronto Sceptres on Friday to even the Professional Women’s Hockey League first-round series at 1-1. The three-time United States Olympian has four points [...] Read More »

NEW YORK (AP) — Francisco Lindor led off with the first of New York’s four solo homers and the Mets rolled to a 7-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Friday night in the opener of a three-game series. Brett Baty and Jeff McNeil went deep in the second while Juan Soto homered in the [...] Read More »

CHICAGO (AP) — White Sox infielder Chase Meidroth was scratched for Friday night’s 6-2 victory over Miami because of right shoulder soreness. The 23-year-old Meidroth irritated the shoulder on a dive during Thursday’s loss at Kansas City. He is being evaluated. Meidroth made his big league debut on April 11. He is batting .245 (13 [...] Read More »

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Freddy Fermin hit a line drive RBI single into left center in the bottom of the 12th inning to give the Kansas City Royals a 2-1 win over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night. Steven Cruz (1-0) pitched the 12th for his first major league win as the Royals [...] Read More »

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a baseball odyssey that included a season pitching in South Korea, Erick Fedde was back where he started Friday night — and he delivered the best performance of his career. The 32-year-old St. Louis Cardinals right-hander threw his first career shutout and complete game, doing it against the Washington Nationals, who [...] Read More »