Sports

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com Some of the world’s top curling talent will be on display in Medicine Hat this fall. The Grand Slam of Curling’s Masters event will be held at Co-op Place from Nov. 3-8, announced Tuesday morning at Co-op Place. The six-day event will feature 16 of the men’s and 16 of the women’s top teams [...] 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 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 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 »

HOUSTON (AP) — Kevin Durant scored 29 points and Amen Thompson scored 23 points as the Houston Rockets beat the Toronto Raptors 113-99 on Tuesday night. Durant shot 12 of 16 from the field while adding seven rebounds. He scored 22 of his points in the first half. Thompson eclipsed the 20-point mark for the [...] Read More »

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mathew Barzal scored in overtime to cap the New York Islanders’ rally from a three-goal deficit for a 4-3 win over the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night. In addition to his goal at 2:11 of the extra period, Barzal had two assists. Calum Ritchie had a goal and an assist [...] Read More »

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Devin Booker scored 27 points, Jalen Green had 25 and Royce O’Neale 21 as the Phoenix Suns pulled away in the fourth quarter to win a 129-114 shootout with the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday night. Phoenix shot 53.9% and made a season-high 24 3-pointers on 51 attempts. Milwaukee shot 51.2% and went [...] Read More »

NEW YORK (AP) — Jalen Duren scored 26 points, Cade Cunningham had 21 points and 15 assists, and the Detroit Pistons snapped a season-worst four-game skid, beating the Brooklyn Nets 138-100 on Tuesday night. Duren shot 9 of 10 from the field and Cunningham was 8 of 10, including 4 of 5 from 3-point range. [...] Read More »

INDIAN WELLS — Canadian tennis star Félix Auger-Aliassime was eliminated from singles play at the Indian Wells BNP Paribas Open after dropping a 6-3, 7-6 (9) decision to France’s Arthur Fils in fourth-round action Tuesday. The 21-year-old Fils, seeded 30th at the 1000-level event, won 83 per cent of his service points and didn’t face [...] Read More »