Local Sports

The Cochrane Generals are looking for sponsors to support them in the upcoming 2016/17 Heritage Junior Hockey League (HJHL) season, as they look to go one step further after last year’s heartbreaking defeat to the Mountainview Colts in the HJHL final

After a thunderous 44-41 comeback against the B.C. Lions last week, the Calgary Stampeders went into their week seven showdown on Aug. 4 against the Saskatchewan Roughriders with supreme confidence, and rightly so.

Cochrane cowboys Tanner and Straws Milan added some jingle to their jeans in Canadian Pro Rodeo action at the Strathmore Stampede. The steer wrestling brothers were both in the money during the event, which ran July 29 to Aug.

To quote legendary sportscaster Al Michaels, “do you believe in miracles? Yes!” The Calgary Stampeders looked down and out as they trailed by 15 points after the three-minute warning had been given in their CFL game against the B.C.

Horse Creek Road was abuzz with swarms of cyclists on July 30 as the Tour de Bowness kicked off.

World-class mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Jesse “Big Cat” Arnett is making Rival Boxing Gym Cochrane his new home.

The Cochrane Piranhas Swim Club wrapped up its second last regular season meet in style over the weekend of July 22 and 23 in Canmore.

The Bow Valley Barbarians recently lost a local derby 48-19 to the Banff Bears, but it’s not all doom and gloom for the developmental team.

Sometimes you have to be in the right place at the right time and get lucky. That’s what Cochrane area hunting enthusiast Terry Raymond recently said.

It was a weekend to remember for the Cochrane BMX Association. Several of the club’s riders returned home with multiple gold medals after Provincial Races Five and Six in Airdrie over July 23 and 24.