Local Sports

You spend enough time on the hardwood, it’s going to pay off. Between high school, club ball and elite-team tryouts, Cochrane High School Cobras’ Jake Nielson knows the gym inside out, upside down.

Talk about making a memorable first impression. Kelowna Rockets rookie forward Dillon Dube hit the ice in his inaugural season with the Western Hockey League club, found a spot in the top-six forward group and was right at home.

"We do the extra." It's the effort Cochrane High School Cobras football co-head coach and defensive coordinator Bruce O'Neil expects from his defensive players.

In a season spent seeking positives, the Cochrane Midget Lions found one in their final regular-season game. Even the smallest of victories count for a winless football team.

Three Cochrane-area football players have made the final cut for Football Alberta’s under-18-year-old (U18) provincial football team.

Myles Moffat sniped a pair of goals and added two assists to lead the Rockyview Silvertips to their first win of the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League Tier 1 Jr.

All Austin Wong wanted to do was follow in his older brother’s footsteps. Mission accomplished.

Somewhere, in between winning the steer wrestling event and placing second in team roping at the Stavely Pro Indoor Rodeo, Cochrane’s Tanner Milan found time to help host the first-ever Hoover Hays Memorial steer wrestling jackpot.

If Hockey Canada is considering a nation-wide ban on body checking in bantam and midget house-league hockey, it’s news to Paul Carson.

The future looks bright. That’s the message delivered by Cochrane Midget Lions head coach Jud Graham in the wake of his team’s 76-1 Calgary Area Midget Football League loss to Prairie Fire (Red Deer) on May 1.