Sports

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Southern Alberta Summers Games (SASG)that hosted in Taber last week are now in the books and Team Lethbridge had an impressive showing at the four-day event. Team Lethbridge brought home the most gold medals with 124 and the second most medals overall with 245, finishing just behind the MD  [...] Read More »

The Lethbridge Elks clawed back to tie the game late  but fell in extra innings to the Billings Royals 10-8 in the first game of the American Legion ‘AA’  baseball doubleheader on Tuesday evening  at Spitz Stadium. The Royals scored two runs on passed balls in the eighth inning to snag the win. “Good to [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Some of the province’s top female and male softball teams are set to take to the diamonds at city’s Softball Valley this weekend for the Softball Alberta Senior ‘A’ Slo-Pitch Provincial Championships in hopes earning a spot in next year’s national championships. “Often times when we bid on these, the [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Bulls won their third game in a row after defeating the Brooks Bombers 4-1 during Western Canadian Baseball League action at Spitz Stadium on Monday night. Carter Claerhout got the scoring started with a solo home run in the bottom of the first inning to give the Bulls [...] Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Bulls began a three-game weekend road trip with a 12-7 defeat at the hands of the Brooks Bombers during Western Canadian Baseball League on  Friday night. Jack Kalisky opened the scoring for the Bulls when his sacrifice fly scored Bernie Socarras in the first inning. The Bombers tied [...] Read More »

Rays slugger Junior Caminero announced Wednesday that he will take part in the Home Run Derby on Monday night in Atlanta, then learned hours later that he would start at third base for the AL squad in the All-Star Game the following night. In between, Caminero merely belted his 22nd homer of the season in [...] Read More »

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Salvador Perez homered twice, Jac Caglianone hit the longest measured homer by a Royals rookie, and Kansas City beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 on Wednesday night to complete a three-game sweep. Perez broke a 3-3 tie in the eighth inning with his longball off Isaac Mattson (2-1). He opened the [...] Read More »

HOUSTON (AP) — José Ramírez homered for a third straight game, Angel Martínez also went deep and the Cleveland Guardians got a 4-2 win over the Houston Astros on Wednesday night to complete a three-game sweep. It’s the first time the Guardians, who entered the series on a 10-game skid, have won three in a [...] Read More »

CHICAGO (AP) — Rebecca Allen scored a season-high 27 points including five 3-pointers and had three blocks to help the Chicago Sky beat the short-handed Dallas Wings 87-76 on Wednesday night. Angel Reese finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds — her 13th double-double this season — and Rachel Banham had 11 points for Chicago [...] Read More »

ST. LOUIS (AP) — James Wood hit his 24th homer, Nathaniel Lowe added a three-run shot and the Washington Nationals beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-2 Wednesday night to give interim manager Miguel Cairo his first victory. Cairo took over when Washington fired manager Dave Martinez and president of baseball operations Mike Rizzo hour after [...] Read More »