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March 12, 2010 One more win and the Medicine Hat Tigers will have secured a fifth place finish in the Eastern Conference. But they want more. They trail 4th place Kootenay by one point going into the final weekend of the regular season. The team finishing fourth gets home ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs. Tigers play a home and home series with the Hurricanes, starting tonight in Lethbridge. --- The Brooks Bandits are on the brink of elimination in their Alberta Junior Hockey League playoff series. The Bandits lost 2-1 to the visiting Camrose Kodiaks last night. Camrose leads the best of seven series 3-1 with game five in Camrose Saturday night. --- The Southern Alberta high school 3A basketball zones get underway this weekend in our city with the top ranked Cresent Heights Vikings expected to dominate. They finished first in the boys division during the regular season and will look to use home court to their advantage, while the McCoy Girls are expected to also have a great showing in the girls bracket. Games go tonight and all day Saturday at the Cresent heights Gym. --- Make it four straight wins for both the Calgary Flames and the Montreal Canadiens. In Calgary, Miikka Kiprusoff's fourth shutout of the season lifted the Flames past the Ottawa Senators 2-0. Out East, Andrei Kostitsyn scored the winner in the shootout as the Canadiens shaded the Edmonton Oilers 5-4. Phil Kessel struck in overtime as the Toronto Maple Leafs won their second in a row, 4-3 over the Tampa Bay Lightning. --- The McGill Martlets have extended their amazing streak at the Canadian university women's hockey championship in Nova Scotia. The two-time defending champions beat Montreal 2-1 for their 85th consecutive victory. The day's other game saw the Alberta Pandas edge the Laurier Golden Hawks 1-0. --- Tiger Woods is swinging a golf club again, but don't expect to see him in competition until the first major of the season. Two people with knowledge of the situation tell The Associated Press the world's top-ranked golfer isn't expected to return to action until the Masters in Augusta, Georgia next month. --- The playoff round is set at the Brier in Halifax. Ontario's Glenn Howard finished off a perfect round-robin with a 7-6 win over Alberta's Kevin Koe. Howard will face Northern Ontario in the 1-versus-2 Page Playoff game, while Koe takes on Brad Gushue of Newfoundland and Labrador in the 3-versus-4 game. --- Canadian women swept the podium today at a freestyle skiing World Cup ski cross race. Kelsey Serwa beat Olympic champion Ashleigh McIvor, with Danielle Poleschuk completing the Canadian sweep. Fellow Canadian Chris Del Bosco took bronze in the men's event. --- |
