The Medicine Hat College Rattlers with the cross-country banner. (Photo From Facebook/Medicine Hat College Rattlers)

By Chris Brown

Rattlers Roundup: A cross-country provincial title, a basketball sweep

Oct 31, 2022 | 3:00 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – The Medicine Hat College Rattlers have another provincial championship banner to hang.

A season-long battle between the Rattlers women’s cross-country team and their St. Mary’s Lightning counterparts came down to a tiebreaker at the 2022 ACAC Cross Country Running Championships in Edmonton. The two teams tied at 47 points apiece but the Rattlers took the title based on a better position by their team’s final scoring runner.

It’s the second women’s cross-country title for the Rattlers, this one coming more than four decades after the first in 1981.

Becky Ross led the team individually, placing fourth in a time 24:13.

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The Rattlers men’s basketball teams were victorious twice on the road in Red Deer. It started with a 90-87 overtime victory on Friday, followed by an 85-83 victory on Saturday.

The road trip to Red Deer wasn’t as fruitful for the women’s team. They fell 72-34 on Friday and 90-39 on Saturday.

The Rattlers went 0-4 on the volleyball court, hosting the same Red Deer Polytechnic Institute Kings and Queens at the Snake Pit.

The men’s team dropped their matches three sets to one on Friday and three sets to two on Saturday. The women’s team’s matches were the reverse, as they fell three sets to to Friday and three sets to one on Saturday.