Riders beat Lions to punch ticket to CFL West final
Nov 03, 2024
The Riders are back in the West final for the first time since 2021.
Cole Carrier helped carry the Regina Pats to their second straight WHL victory Tuesday.
Carrier scored a natural hat trick in the third period as the Pats downed the host Medicine Hat Tigers 6-2.
Regina (8-10-0-0) won its second game in as many starts since John Paddock replaced Dave Struch as the Pats’ head coach on Thursday.
Logan Nijhoff, Connor Bedard and Drew Englot also scored for the Pats. Lukas Svejkovsky and Ashton Ferster replied for the Tigers (4-10-3-1).
Regina is to visit the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Wednesday.
In the only other game Tuesday involving a Saskatchewan-based team, the Swift Current Broncos were beaten 8-2 by the host Brandon Wheat Kings.
♦ Pats forward Tanner Howe has been selected as an injury replacement for the Capital City Challenge, which is to run from Friday through Dec. 1 in Ottawa.
Regina Pats forward Tanner Howe. (File photo courtesy of Keith Hershmiller Photography)
The four-team tournament features three under-17 men’s teams — Team Canada Black, Team Canada Red and Team Canada White — and Canada’s national women’s team.
Howe, who turns 16 on Sunday, has six goals and five assists during his current seven-game point-scoring streak. The Prince Albert product — a fourth-round pick (73rd overall) by Regina in the 2020 WHL draft — has seven goals and five assists in 17 games this season.
“I think just confidence is a big thing,” Howe told reporters earlier this week. “(I’m) playing with speed and just getting open. My linemates obviously have been finding me and it’s been good.”