Local Sports

The Cochrane Generals closed out a successful 2016 home stretch Saturday with a blowout and a bunch of brawls against the High River Flyers.

The new Cochrane Chaos hockey squad is finding its feet after filing its first big win of the team’s inaugural year.

Last weekend was the first time this season the entire Cowboys Wrestling Club – from elementary to senior high – participated in a tournament together, and the coach of the team said the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

The Cochrane Skating Club is celebrating the success of its the first competition of the season.

At a Cochrane Generals game, professional newspaper photographers like to position themselves to the right of the goalie - it's the best place to get the shot.

The Cochrane Generals surprised their biggest fan last weekend with a hockey stick autographed by all the players on the team.

The battle cry of the Bow Valley Bobcats – Do you believe? – is always chanted three times.

The legacy of late hockey coach Mike Bigland lives on in a memorial scholarship established in his name – and one of Cochrane’s talented players has been named as the first recipient of the honour.

It’s three for three for the Cochrane Cobras football squad, who earned back to back-to-back championships last weekend after a formidable campaign for provincial gold. “We worked so hard,” running back Kane Boklaschuk said after the game.

A record-breaking number of curlers shot, swept and slid at this year’s Super Senior Squares bonspiel.