Local Sports

Cochrane’s Coda Gordon is getting a taste of the Western Hockey League playoffs for the first time. In his second season with the Swift Current Broncos, the 6-foot-1 left-winger and his team are trailing Calgary 2-1 in the best-of-7 opening-round.

They haven’t hitched the hooves to the wagon yet, but the cash register is already ringing for Cremona chuckwagon racer Jordie Fike. Fike took in $130,000 at the Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby chuckwagon canvas auction March 21 in Calgary.

The Cochrane High School Cobras varsity boys basketball team came up a couple of shots short of taking it all at the Alberta Schools Athletic Association 3A provincial hoops championship in Spruce Grove over the weekend.

You get the feeling, after talking with Cochrane High School Cobras varsity girls basketball coach Randy Peron, that he follows every shot, every pass, every block and every bounce of the ball during his team’s games and practices.

Cochrane and area is hosting one of the largest First Nations hockey tournaments in the province later this month. The Alberta Treaty Hockey Championships run March 27-31 in Cochrane, Cremona, Tsuu T’ina and at the Crowfoot rink in northwest Calgary.

“Hockey in Morley is at a standstill.” And with that utterance, Alberta Treaty Hockey Association president Marty Wildman left one sports reporter scratching his head.

When you hail from Dogpound, you’re going to have some junkyard dog in you. And that’s just fine with the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) Trojans.

Contact in Peewee hockey has absorbed another crushing body-check with the delivery of yet another study denouncing the practice because it increases the risk of concussions in young players.

The AC Avalanche have won the Alberta Minor Midget AAA Hockey League’s Sutter South Cup with a 3-0 win over the Calgary Royals Athletic Association Blues.

According to Rich Preston, young hockey stars are a lot like wild horses — they need to be broken when you get them.