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Kodiak women’s volleyball finding their game
By Lethbridge Herald on February 8th, 2024
By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald After losing 11 of their first 13 games this season, the Lethbridge College Kodiaks women’s volleyball team appear to have found their game at the right time after winning four straight games. “We took the break to just really do a lot of self-reflection, kind of just be accountable and ... Read More »
1 responseAmantea signs on with the Dinos
By Lethbridge Herald on February 8th, 2024
By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The University of Calgary Dinos may have landed a player that will make an impact on their football team for his duration at the school. Catholic Central Cougars’ hulking offensive lineman Benaiah Amantea signed the dotted line for his Letter of Intent to play for the Dinos beginning next season ... Read More »
1 responseRaiders shut out the Canes
By Lethbridge Herald on February 7th, 2024
The Lethbridge Hurricanes dropped their fourth consecutive road game after a 3-0 loss to the Prince Albert Raiders on Wednesday night. The Raiders’ Niall Crocker open the scoring on the powerplay with his 17th of the season 8:15 into the first period from Sloan Stanick and Terrell Goldsmith. Braeden Wynne was sitting off for interference ... Read More »
2 responsesPronghorns using final weekend as a playoff tune-up
By Lethbridge Herald on February 7th, 2024
By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The University of Lethbridge Pronghorns women’s basketball team are coming off a bye-week and are preparing not only for the regular season finale this weekend but playoffs in a couple of weeks. Second-year guard, Piper Dobbelsteyn, said it’s really important with bye weeks to kind of keep the intensity up. ... Read More »
2 responsesKodiaks finding a new level of confidence
By Lethbridge Herald on February 6th, 2024
By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge College Kodiaks men’s volleyball team are seeing their confidence rise at the right time with the regular season wrapping up this weekend. “A lot of our athletes right now are really confident,” said Greg Gibos, Kodiak men’s head coach. Gibos credits much of the improvement to the work ... Read More »
1 responsePakkala bringing gritty defensive style
By Lethbridge Herald on February 6th, 2024
By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Hurricanes were busy on and around the trade deadline last month and that included landing forward Hayden Pakkala from the Prince Albert Raiders. The Okotoks product said it’s been good so far, when asked about fitting in with his new teammates. “(I am)still learning a couple of things ... Read More »
1 responseCanes edged by Blades
By Lethbridge Herald on February 6th, 2024
By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Saskatoon Blades picked up their 37th win of the year after defeating the Lethbridge Hurricanes 3-1 at Sask Tel Centre on Tuesday night. The Blades’ Fraser Minten scored his 15th of the season with 5:13 to go in the first period to give Saskatoon a 1-0 lead. Grayden Siepmann ... Read More »
1 responseCanes preparing for crucial trip
By Lethbridge Herald on February 2nd, 2024
After tonight’s home game versus the Calgary Hitmen, the Lethbridge Hurricanes will embark on the last extended road trip of the season in a stretch that will be crucial in terms of hopefully picking up points and moving up the standings. The trip begins with a tough contest against the first place Saskatoon Blades on ... Read More »
2 responsesLFC players commit to Kodiaks
By Lethbridge Herald on February 2nd, 2024
By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Recruiting is well underway for the Lethbridge College Kodiaks soccer teams for next season and the men’s team grabbed a couple of local players recently. The Kodiak men’s got Catholic Central School student and Lethbridge Football Club’s(LFC) Tyler Munnings to commit to the program earlier this week. Munnings went through ... Read More »
2 responsesRaymond Comets using travel schedule to prepare for provincial run
By Lethbridge Herald on February 1st, 2024
By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The highly touted Raymond Comets senior high school girls basketball have been using each game this season to prepare for a run at a third consecutive provincial banner next month. “There’s lots of discussion on is this team as good or better than previous years,” said Alan Gibb, Comets head ... Read More »
1 responsePronghorns making immense strides in second semester
By Lethbridge Herald on February 1st, 2024
Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The University of Lethbridge Pronghorns men’s basketball team has turned around their fortunes for the better in the second semester. After a first semester where the Horns lost their first 10 games and were in many of those games until the end, the team had finally got a win to start ... Read More »
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