Sports

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Prairie Baseball Academy Dawgs varsity  didn’t get the result  they wanted in the back half of the series with the Okanagan College Coyotes on Friday. The Coyotes took the first game 3-0 followed by a 3-2 win in the second game respectively. OC scored three runs in the fifth [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Sports Hall of Fame enshrined the class of 2024  during an induction ceremony at the Enmax Centre’s Western Canadian Bank Lounge on Friday night. One of the inductees was boxer Carmen Rinke. “It’s thrilling,”  said Rinke, The Lundbreck product boxed competitively from 1966 to 1972,  earning  six Canadian [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald After dropping three-of-four at home to the VIU Mariners last week, the Prairie Baseball Academy Dawgs varsity team split their doubleheader with Okanagan College Coyotes to begin their road trip on Thursday in Kelowna. PBA started the day with an 8-1 win over OC, in which a four-run first inning [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Canadian College World Series is being hosted by the varsity  Prairie Baseball Academy team in a couple of weeks’ time and organizers are looking for more volunteers to fill positions. Positions that need to be filled include for score keepers, front gate attendants, PA announcer, video board operators, in-game [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Rocky Mountain Turf Club will open the gates to a new horse racing season on Saturday. RMTC held a press conference on Wednesday to give some details on what the season will look like. “We’re really enthused,” said Max Gibb, RMTC CEO. “We open on Kentucky Derby day, we’re [...] Read More »

THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) – Scott Dunlap was declared the 36-hole winner of the Insperity Invitational when rain washed the final round Sunday, giving Dunlap his first PGA Tour Champions title in nearly 10 years. Devastating rain in the Houston area previously washed out the opening round Friday. Players managed to play 36 holes on [...] Read More »

MADRID (AP) – Andrey Rublev rallied to beat Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime in three sets on Sunday and win the Madrid Open for the first time. Rublev won 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 after Auger-Aliassime double-faulted on the last point of the final at the clay-court tournament in the Spanish capital. It was the second Masters 1000 title [...] Read More »

CLEVELAND (AP) – Donovan Mitchell scored 39 points, Caris LeVert added 15 and the Cleveland Cavaliers avoided a potentially franchise-shifting loss by rallying for a 106-94 win over the Orlando Magic on Sunday in Game 7 to advance in the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Cavs trailed by 18 in the first half and were in [...] Read More »

ESPOO, Finland – Gavin McKenna had a hat trick and added an assist as Canada rallied past the United States 6-4 on Sunday to win gold at the under-18 men’s world hockey championship. It’s Canada’s fifth title since the tournament’s inception in 1999. Cole Beaudoin and Tij Iginla also scored in the third period as [...] Read More »

ESPOO, Finland – Love Harenstam stopped all 36 shots he faced as Sweden shut out Slovakia 4-0 on Sunday to win bronze at the under-18 men’s world hockey championship. Canada played the United States in the tournament’s final later Sunday. Lucas Pettersson scored 9:16 into the third period to break a scoreless tie for Sweden. [...] Read More »