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jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The CHL USA Prospects Challenge provided NHL scouts an opportunity to learn more about the CHL’s top draft-eligible players. It also gave those players an opportunity to pick up some lessons of their own. The second rendition of the two-game series saw the U.S. NTDP capture the challenge crown for the first time, winning [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb After their busiest week of the season, the Medicine Hat Tigers face another tough test this weekend. The Tigers kick off a two-game road trip tonight in Saskatoon against the Blades before they face the East division-leading Prince Albert Raiders. They hit the road four days removed from a week of four games in [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Team Miller defenced the home-ice territory last weekend at the Curling Centre. The Medicine Hat curling team of Lyndon Sherwick, Emmett Cook, Colby Sherwick and Ryker Miller won the men’s event at the U18 Bonspiel held at the Medicine Hat Curling Centre. They won their game 7-5. Team Roa of Calgary won the women’s [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Boxing Club was represented in Vancouver last weekend. The local club sent Jacob Walne and Nate Vossler to B.C. for a pair of bouts. Vossler lost what coach Kerry Fahlman called an unpopular split decision to Griffyn Gooch from Quintet Boxing in the open 69 kg. elite category. Jacob Walne also [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Cubs are putting things together at the right time of year. The Cubs enter a two-game home stand this weekend on a five-game win streak after beating their South division rival Okotoks Bisons and the North division co-leader Red Deer Vipers last weekend. They host the Strathmore Wheatland Kings tonight, sitting [...] Read More »

MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — Albert Vargas had 14 points in Robert Morris’ 61-54 win over Southern Utah on Friday to open the Urban-Bennett Invitational. Vargas also had five assists and three steals for the Colonials (5-3). DeSean Goode scored 12 points while finishing 5 of 9 from the floor and added 14 rebounds. Nikolaos [...] Read More »

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Former Stanford quarterback Tavita Pritchard will return to The Farm as head football coach after being hired by general manager Andrew Luck. Luck announced the move to hire Pritchard on Friday, a day before the Cardinal play the final game of their season under interim coach Frank Reich on Saturday night [...] Read More »

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Trinidad Chambliss threw for 359 yards and four touchdowns, and Mississippi beat Mississippi State 38-19 Friday in the Battle for the Golden Egg. The win was the 11th in the regular season for the Rebels, marking the most regular-season wins in school history. The Rebels accomplished the feat in the midst [...] Read More »

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Sabres forward Tage Thompson settled whatever lingering differences he had with Stefan Noesen by squaring off against the New Jersey forward on the ice on Friday. The fight occurred 2 1/2 minutes into Buffalo’s game against New Jersey and some nine months after Noesen leveled Thompson with an elbow to the [...] Read More »

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Anaheim Ducks goalie Lukas Dostal will miss two to three weeks with an upper-body injury, the team said Friday. Dostal is 11-5-1 with a 2.81 goals against average and .904 save percentage this season. He has been particularly effective on home ice, having won eight of nine starts to help the [...] Read More »