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Swimming
Grande Prairie swimmer wins final at Canadian trials
Grande Prairie Piranhas Swim Team member Oliver Dawson won the 200 metre breaststroke at the Canadian Olympic swim trials Wednesday in Toronto.Dawson lowered his own personal best time in the final after breaking the Canadian record for 15 to 17 year olds and the provincial record earlier in the day during preliminarie...
May 16, 2024
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GP Storm
Storm make changes to coaching staff
The Storm have promoted Beaverlodge product Chris Schmidt to head coach. He has been with the team as an assistant coach for the past three years. "I am excited for the opportunity to be stepping into the role of head coach. It's a great privilege to be able to work with these young, dedicated athletes who are wor...
May 16, 2024
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Baseball
WBL season starts Wednesday night, new Sexsmith team to debut May 22
One game on Wednesday night will kick off the 2024 Wheatbelt Baseball League season.The Grimshaw Huskies will visit the Peace River Stampeders. The first pitch is scheduled for 7:15.There is also a game Thursday. Rycroft will visit the County Brewers. The start time there will also be 7:15 p.m.For the second time in as...
May 15, 2024
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Local Sports
Ontario sweeps gold medals at NAHC
One province won both gold medals at the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships played in Grande Prairie. Ontario beat Alberta 3-0 in the girl's gold medal game Saturday at the Design Works Centre.Ontario also won the boy's gold medal, beating Saskatchewan 4-0 in the final.Organizers cancelled both bronze medal games...
May 13, 2024
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Piranhas
Grande Prairie well-represented at Canadian swimming trials
Grande Prairie will be well-represented at Swimming Canada's 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Trials.They will start Monday, May 13 and continue through Sunday, May 19 at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre.Seven members of the Grande Prairie Piranhas Swim Team will be competing.That includes Marissa and Mikayla Laurin, Domini...
May 12, 2024
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NAHC
National Aboriginal Hockey Championship cancels bronze medal games
The 2024 National Aboriginal Hockey Championship has made the difficult decision to cancel it's Bronze medal games for both the Males and Females.The cause was credited to the ongoing wildfire situation in the Peace region. Photo Courtesy NAHCAt this time, the Gold Medal games remain in place; on the Women's side it wi...
May 11, 2024
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Sports

Five things to know about the NHL playoffs
Today is an off day for the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers as they prepare for Monday's winner-take-all Game 7 showdown at Rogers Arena. The Florida Panthers, New York Rangers and Dallas Stars have off days, too, but they'll be watching Monday to see which Canadian team joins them in the final four. Here are fiv...
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Canucks must 'want that big moment' heading into decisive Game 7: coach
EDMONTON - All season long, the Vancouver Canucks have preached resilience. Now comes the ultimate test. After an ugly 5-1 loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday, the Canucks need to once again showcase their ability to bounce back as the two teams prepare for a decisive Game 7 Monday in the second-round playoff serie...
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Canadian women score historic rugby win, defeating World Cup champion New Zealand
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Fancy Bermudez scored two tries as Canada recorded a historic rugby win over New Zealand on Sunday, holding on to dispatch the reigning World Cup champion 22-19 and win the Pacific Four Series. The Canadian women had lost all 17 previous meetings with the Black Ferns, with 10 of those defeat...
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Disputed penalty in final minutes gives Whitecaps 1-1 draw against Sounders
SEATTLE (AP) - Ryan Gauld scored on a penalty kick in the fifth minute of second-half stoppage time, and the Vancouver Whitecaps salvaged a 1-1 Major League Soccer draw with the Seattle Sounders on Saturday night. Gauld's tying goal came following a lengthy video review where referee Victor Rivas and video official Pie...
7h ago
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Canada beats Thailand 3-1 at Volleyball Nations League tournament
RIO DE JANEIRO - Canada picked up an important victory in Volleyball Nations League action on Saturday night with a 25-21, 25-13, 20-25 and 25-17 over winless Thailand. Canada, which started the day ranked 11th and trying to nail down an Olympic berth, improved to 3-1 in the VNL competition. Seven women's teams have al...
8h ago
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Oilers crank up the offence, beat Canucks 5-1 to force Game 7
EDMONTON - Evan Bouchard and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins each had a goal and two assists and Connor McDavid had three assists as the Edmonton Oilers staved off elimination with a dominant 5-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in Game 6 of their best-of-seven, second-round playoff series on Saturday. Dylan Holloway, Zach Hyman...
9h ago
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Washington's free throws cap rally as Mavs beat Thunder 117-116 to reach West finals
DALLAS (AP) - P.J. Washington Jr. made two free throws before an intentional miss with 2.5 seconds left, lifting the Dallas Mavericks to a 117-116 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night and into the Western Conference finals for the second time in three seasons. Washington was fouled by Canadian Shai ...
9h ago
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Bernardeschi scores three goals as rampant Toronto FC thumps CF Montreal 5-1
TORONTO - Federico Bernardeschi scored a hat trick and fellow Italian Lorenzo Insigne had two assists as Toronto FC humbled an injury-ravaged CF Montreal 5-1 in Major League Soccer play Saturday. The stylish Bernardeschi, sporting new bleached cornrows, scored in the 12th, 58th and 60th minutes on a night Montreal fans...
10h ago
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Panthers captain Barkov wins Selke Trophy as NHL's best defensive forward
NEW YORK (AP) - Florida Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov has won the Selke Trophy as the NHL's best defensive forward, the league announced Saturday night. Barkov is a two-time Selke winner after also finishing first in voting for the award in 2021. He was a big part of the Panthers allowing the fewest goals this sea...
11h ago
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Usyk beats Fury by split decision, becomes undisputed heavyweight champion
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Oleksandr Usyk has defeated Tyson Fury by split decision to become the first undisputed heavyweight boxing champion in 24 years. Usyk (22-0) added Fury's WBC title to his own WBA, IBF and IBO belts with a spectacular late rally highlighted by a ninth-round knock-down in a back-and-forth bout...
12h ago
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Seize the Grey wins the Preakness, ends Mystik Dan's Triple Crown bid
Seize the Grey went wire to wire to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving 88-year-old Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas a seventh victory in the race and ending Mystik Dan's Triple Crown bid. The grey colt took advantage of the muddy track just like Lukas hoped he would, pulling off the upset in a second conse...
13h ago
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Korda grabs 2-shot lead at Mizuho Americas Open
Nelly Korda shot a 7-under 65 Saturday and will take a two-stroke lead over Hannah Green into the final round of the Mizuho Americas Open in a bid to win for the sixth time in her last seven events on the LPGA Tour. After seeing Rose Zhang snap her tour record-tying five tournament winning streak in the Cognizant Found...
13h ago
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Toronto's Summer McIntosh victorious in 200-metre butterfly at Olympic trials
Toronto's Summer McIntosh emerged victorious once again, winning the women's 200-metre butterfly at the Olympic & Paralympic Trials on Saturday night. McIntosh finished with a time of two minutes 4.33 seconds to go under the Olympic qualifying time of 2:08.43. It's the fourth event in which the 17-year-old has gone...
14h ago
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DeLuca's two-run homer lifts Rays over Blue Jays 5-4; Toronto blows 4-0 lead
TORONTO - Jonny DeLuca's two-run homer in the eighth inning completed the Rays comeback as Tampa Bay rallied past the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 on Saturday. Jose Caballero had an RBI single and Amed Rosario added a two-run single in the sixth as Tampa Bay (25-22) scored five unanswered runs for its fourth straight win. Zac...
14h ago
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Shane Lowry ties a major championship record by shooting a 9-under 62 to get into the mix at the PGA
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Shane Lowry tied a major championship record by shooting a 9-under 62 in the third round of the PGA Championship on Saturday. The 37-year-old Irishman recorded nine birdies without a bogey at a very gettable Valhalla to match the lowest round ever in any of the four major tournaments. Four player...
15h ago
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Canadian women's 3x3 hoops team advances to quarterfinals at Olympic qualifier
DEBRECEN, Hungary - The Canadian women's 3x3 basketball team is off to the quarterfinals at an Olympic qualifying tournament after defeating Czechia 17-10 on Saturday. Canada went undefeated in group play after also beating Chile and Lithuania on Thursday and will play a to-be-determined opponent in the quarterfinals S...
17h ago
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Cline, Tuttosi give Canada rugby women powerful one-two punch at hooker
With the Canadian women already qualified for the 2025 Rugby World Cup by virtue of their fourth-place finish at the last tournament, coach Kevin Rouet is adding to the depth in his squad. And nowhere is that more evident than at hooker. Emily Tuttosi, named to World Rugby's Women's 15s dream team of the year in 2022 a...
19h ago
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Oilers to start Stuart Skinner in net for must-win Game 6 vs. Canucks
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers will start Stuart Skinner in net tonight for a must-win Game 6 of their second-round playoff series against the Vancouver Canucks. Skinner replaces goalie Calvin Pickard, who was Edmonton's starter for Games 4 and 5. The 25-year-old Skinner was in net for the first three games of the bes...
19h ago
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General manager Ross Atkins preaches patience as Toronto Blue Jays struggle
TORONTO - Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins is preaching patience. Atkins addressed reporters at Rogers Centre this morning, hours before Toronto hosted the Tampa Bay Rays this afternoon. The 20-minute news conference in front of the home dugout was mainly focused on the Blue Jays' disappointing 19-24 record. Atkin...
19h ago
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Fog delayed PGA Championship at Valhalla, where the cut is 1-under 141
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Once the rain cleared out, fog moved in at the PGA Championship. Thick fog covered Valhalla on Saturday morning, causing a two-hour delay before the second round resumed. It forced tournament organizers to send players off in groups of threes on both nines for the third round. Xander Schauffele h...
20h ago
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Bayer Leverkusen completes undefeated Bundesliga
BERLIN (AP) - League champion Bayer Leverkusen became the first team to complete a Bundesliga season unbeaten on Saturday. Early goals from Victor Boniface and Robert Andrich gave Leverkusen a 2-1 win over Augsburg in their last game of the season, while Cologne's hopes of avoiding the drop evaporated in a 4-1 loss at ...
20h ago
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Sweden beats Latvia 7-2, Switzerland routs Denmark 8-0 at men's hockey world championship
PRAGUE (AP) - Sweden killed off a 5-minute major before scoring three goals in a 26-second span in the middle period to pull away from Latvia in a 7-2 win that clinched a playoff-round berth at the men's world hockey championships on Saturday. The Swedes, who have not trailed in the tournament, preserved their perfect ...
21h ago
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