Local Sports

Billiards champion Bill Gibbons has been playing pool since he was a teenager. “When I was 16, I played against the best players,” Gibbons recently recalled. “It was one way to spend some leisure time and stay out of trouble.

Every winter when his kids were young, Allan Willms created a small oval pond in the backyard so his three sons – including his youngest Caleb – could play shinny after school. “It was our family time,” recalled the hockey dad.

Cochrane hockey player Dillon Dub é has been re-assigned to the Kelowna Rockets after spending four months at the Calgary Flames training camp.

Sometimes in sports, it truly isn’t about whether you win or lose – it’s about how you get along with fellow players who share the same passion for the sport.

Thunder roared through the Calgary Catholic Junior High School Division Cross Country Championships last week, as the St. Timothy Junior/Senior High team qualified a record 11 athletes to the upcoming Meet of Champions.

Victory finally belongs to the Bow Valley Grizzlies - and it couldn't be any sweeter for the scrappy senior men's rugby squad, who are bringing home the hardware for the first time in the club's history.

The Cochrane High School senior varsity girls’ volleyball team crushed the competition last weekend in Calgary – locking down the gold and only losing one set over the course of the entire tournament.

Then there were two. The Bow Valley Grizzlies overcame last season’s semi-final hoodoo to reach the Calgary Rugby Union’s (CRU) Division Two City Championship, smashing the Calgary Canucks 59-3 on Sept. 17 at Mitford Pond.

For four years and counting, Rival Boxing Gym Cochrane and owner Craig Wilson have been leading the charge as a facility that balances training high-level competitors and helping people stay in shape.

It was almost predictable. The Cochrane Generals have blasted the hinges off the doors to this new Heritage Junior Hockey League (HJHL) season, sending a message to the rest of the league that they won’t be settling for second-best this time around.