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jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Beautiful sights and a pair of wins wrapped up the Medicine Hat Tigers preseason. The Tigers returned Sunday from the WHL’s Whitehorse Showcase, beating the Kelowna Rockets to sweep the preseason and capture the Northern Lights Cup. Head coach Willie Desjardins says they were treated well and he enjoyed the trip to the Yukon. [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers deepened their forward core Tuesday. The Tigers acquired 19-year-old forward Max Sullivan in a trade with the Kamloops Blazers, sending a conditional 2029 eighth-round pick the other way. Sullivan had seven goals and 23 points in 61 games with the Blazers last season. In 106 career WHL regular season games, [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews A pair of the city’s senior high school football teams look to get back in the win column this week. The Medicine Hat High Hawks and Monsignor McCoy Colts lost their Week 3 matchups on Friday. Hat High was shutout 44-0 on the road by the L.C.I. Rams, McCoy lost 25-18 to the Catholic [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat College Rattlers women’s soccer team split their second regular season weekend. The Rattlers beat the University of Alberta-Augustana Vikings 5-1 on Saturday before falling 2-0 on Sunday at home to the Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiaks. Saturday’s win, coming on the road, was led by a pair of goals from both Alexis Ratke [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Tigers wrapped their preseason in winning fashion. The Tigers beat the Kelowna Rockets 5-2 on Saturday to win the WHL’s Yukon Showcase and capture the Northern Lights Cup as winners of the two-game set held in Whitehorse, Yukon. Medicine Hat beat the Rockets 8-4 on Friday. The wins also sweep the [...] Read More »

SYDNEY (AP) — James O’Connor’s plane ticket to England earlier this week to join his new club Leicester now has a return component — the 35-year-old flyhalf has been recruited again by the Wallabies for the last two Rugby Championship tests against New Zealand. O’Connor, who will play this season in the England premiership with [...] Read More »

NEW YORK (AP) — With the bases loaded, the last man any opposing pitcher wants to see at the plate is Manny Machado. The seven-time All-Star once again showed why Wednesday night. Machado launched a tiebreaking grand slam off David Peterson in the fifth inning that sent the San Diego Padres to a 7-4 victory [...] Read More »

NEW YORK (AP) — Satou Sabally and Alyssa Thomas each scored 15 points to help the Phoenix Mercury beat the New York Liberty 86-60 in Game 2 on Wednesday night, evening the best-of-three playoff series. The decisive Game 3 will be Friday night in Phoenix. Sabally was coming off one of the worst shooting games [...] Read More »

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Snell struck out a season-high 12 over seven innings, Shohei Ohtani hit his 51st homer and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-0 on Wednesday night to avoid a three-game sweep. Freddie Freeman also homered for the Dodgers, who blew multiple-run leads in losing 9-6 on Tuesday and [...] Read More »

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Napheesa Collier made a go-ahead 18-footer with 1:24 left on the way to 24 points, and the top-seeded Minnesota Lynx rallied from a 17-point, third-quarter deficit to beat the Golden State Valkyries 75-74 on Wednesday night and move on in the WNBA playoffs. Collier shot 10 for 16 and followed [...] Read More »