Local Sports

The Rockyview Silvertips junior B lacrosse team's season came to a halt after the club bowed out in the first round of the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League (RMLL) playoffs on July 20 and 21 in a best-of-three series against the Calgary Chill.

The Cochrane Piranhas swim club dove in for the Calgary Swordfish meet on July 20 and 21.

Cochranites Tanner and Straws Milan were busy last week as both were competing in the 2018 Calgary Stampede rodeo in the steer wrestling event that took place from July 6 to 15.

The Cochrane Piranhas Swim Club had a third swim meet in as many weeks as 46 swimmers from the club competed in the Calgary Tritons meet at the Repsol Center in Calgary on July 14.

Going into the 2018 Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League (RMLL) campaign, the Rockyview Silvertips had high expectations for themselves after a 5-15 season the year prior, which caused them to miss the playoffs and finish last in their division.

The Cochrane Piranhas just kept the medals coming while the team was in Didsbury for a July 7 meet.

The Rockyview junior B Silvertips lacrosse team are in the home stretch of their regular season after they split a pair of games on July 6 and 8. The first game for the Silvertips took place on the road in Olds when the team took on the Mavericks.

Cochrane horseback rider Austin Seelhof and his horse Lipstick Jungle have qualified with Team Canada for the 2018 World Equestrian Games which will take place Sept. 11 to 23 in Mill Spring, North Carolina.

Some 40 Cochrane Piranhas swimmers competed in their third meet of the season on June 30. A total of 367 swimmers from the ASSA Region E participated in the Okotoks meet on the weekend.

Fourteen-year-old Ryley Juneau will represent Cochrane, selected to the Big Country Under-16 Zone 2 softball team that will participate in the Alberta Summer Games on July 20 to 22 in Grande Prairie.