Local Sports

The Cochrane Rangers will add some international flavour to the town pitch when they play host to – and play ball with – a travelling soccer club from South America next week.

Cochrane athletes helped contribute to a collection of wins for the Calgary Mavericks rugby club last weekend at a regional rugby competition in Edmonton.

Paul Oldridge started playing golf after watching his dad, Bob, slice it up on the fairways around Cochrane over the last few summers.

Val Morand first said hello to the Big Hill Leisure Pool when she was eight years old.

Dedication knows no bounds for a cut couple who muscled their way into the Alberta bodybuilding championships for the first time this year.

The Cochrane Crush senior baseball squad is hoping hot bats will be the ticket to an Alberta District 3 Little League championship win tonight.

Duffers, hackers and pros are all on an even playing field at the annual Monumental Tournament of Aces charity golf tournament, where the only hole that matters is the coveted hole in one.

The head coach of the CFR Chemicals Midget AAA Bisons – and a familiar face on the Cochrane hockey scene – says he hopes to draw some promising young players from this town to his new team.

Dillon Dubé remembers a time, not so many years ago, when he waited anxiously with a long lineup of fans in Calgary to have his hockey jersey autographed by the one and only Sidney Crosby.

Father's Day for one Cochranite was a particularly punishing family affair as he and his children grinded out more than 100 gruelling kilometres at the annual Ghost of the Gravel cycling race.