Sports by Hartley Monday, July 24th as of 12:05 a.m.
Hockey:
The Prince George Cougars have hired Jim Playfair as the team’s new Associate Coach.
He takes over for Josh Dixon who has accepted a position with the University of Guelph.
Playfair, from Fort St. James, spent 15 years coaching in the NHL as both an Associate Coach and Head Coach.
He was part of the Cougars coaching staff in a part-time role in 2022-2023.
NEWS! We have named Jim Playfair as our new Associate Coach!
Welcome, Jim!
DETAILS 📝 https://t.co/LcLz7x5232#ForTheNorth • #WHL pic.twitter.com/iHfMbLijwU
— Prince George Cougars (@PGCougars) July 24, 2023
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Former Prince George Cougars forward Blake Eastman will play his final season of junior hockey in PEI.
The 20-year-old Eastman has joined the Summerside Western Capitals of the junior A Maritime Hockey League after spending the last four seasons with the Cougars.
In 180 regular-season games with P.G., he tallied 44 points, including 19 goals.
The Summerside Western Capitals are excited to announce the signing of Blake Eastman. The 6’3″, 195lb forward from Ardrossan, Alberta played the past 4 seasons with the Prince George Cougars in the Western Hockey League. Welcome to #CapsArmy Blake! pic.twitter.com/GnsXxOKgtl
— Summerside Capitals (@SsideCapitals) July 23, 2023
Golf:
American Brian Harman has his first Major by winning The Open at Royal Liverpool.
Harman finished at 13-under-271, good for a six-stroke victory over four golfers, including Jon Rahm and Jason Day.
Canadian Corey Conners tied for 52nd at 4-over 288 after closing with a 76.
The leaderboard is here.
Major League Baseball:
Toronto Blue Jays 4 Seattle Mariners 3
The box score is here.
The Blue Jays are 55-45 after 100 games.
Toronto is 3rd in the A.L East and they are holding down the 3rd and final wild-card spot in the American League.
The Jays visit the (57-41) LA Dodgers tonight (Monday 7:10 PT).
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First baseman Jared Young of P.G. did not play in the Chicago Cubs’ 4-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals that concluded Sunday.
The 28-year-old Young is batting .171 (6-for-35) in 13 games in a Chicago uniform with one homer and five RBIs.
The (48-51) Cubs visit the (41-60) Chicago White Sox Tuesday night (5:10 PT).
The Blue Jays 2023 schedule can be found here.
The MLB standings can be found here.
The MLB schedule/results can be found here.
Soccer:
FIFA Women’s World Cup
Canada, coming off a 0-0 tie against Nigeria, plays its second game Wednesday (5 AM PT) against the Republic of Ireland in Perth, Australia.
Ireland lost its opener 1-0 to Australia.
32 teams are in the field.
The tournament schedule is here.
CFL: (Week 7)
Ottawa RedBlacks 43 Calgary Stampeders 41 (OT Sunday)
(Ottawa is 3-3 while Calgary slipped to 2-4)
B.C. Lions 19 Saskatchewan Roughriders 9 (Saturday)
(B.C. is 5-1 while Saskatchewan sits 3-3)
The Lions visit (0-7) Edmonton Saturday (4:00 PT).
Week 8 starts Friday with (2-4) Hamilton at (3-3) Ottawa (4:30 PT).
The CFL schedule is here or here.
The CFL standings are here.
PG Football:
The Prince George Kodiaks junior football team opens its 10-game BCFC regular season schedule on Saturday, July 29th when they host the defending Canadian Bowl champions, the Okanagan Sun.
Columns:
Fire season reaches Kamloops . . . Former WHL enforcer gets into coaching game . . . Everett, Red Deer add assistants https://t.co/lSmD2n0vcE
— Gregg Drinnan (@gdrinnan) July 24, 2023
HART ATTACK: @Hartley_Miller talks about the success of PG’s Nico Myatovic of the @SeattleTbirds and McBride’s Tanner Molendyk of the @BladesHockey in this week’s column.
| https://t.co/ysq3tsXvDh #cityofpg #PrinceGeorge #northernbc #sports pic.twitter.com/SefhbaX07G— My Prince George Now (@mypgnow) July 21, 2023