Local Sports

The local junior B team announced the game's cancellation on social media on Tuesday.

Though they may not have been content with their overall performance, the Cochrane High School Cobras football team began their 2022 Rocky View Sports Association (RVSA) season the same way they ended the last six – with a win.

The Cochrane Generals are going international before kicking off their 2022-23 Heritage Junior Hockey League (HJHL) campaign, taking on the University of South Korea on Sept. 5.

The Grizzlies U16 girls' and boys' teams, U18 boys, and senior men's team are all hitting the pitch this weekend for Calgary Rugby Union playoff action.

Two Cochrane-area athletes rounded off the 2022 Canada Summer Games with positive performances for Team Alberta last week.

The swim club came home from the Alberta Summer Swimming Association provincial competition in Edmonton Aug. 12 to 14 decorated with 27 medals, two new provincial records, countless club records and personal bests, plus a team banner to boot.

Local wrestler Nicholas Hooper called the gold medal one of the highlights of his wrestling career to date.

“We haven’t been able to have regional or provincial meets for three years and so to come in and put this huge stamp on it, it’s so exciting.”

Three Cochrane athletes, one Bearspaw athlete, and one "mission staff" member are representing their hometown at the 2022 Canada Summer Games, which are being held this month in Niagara, Ont.

The Cochrane-based Junior B Tier 1 team finished fourth in their quest to clinch the Larry Bishop Memorial Cup in Okotoks last weekend (July 29 to Aug. 1) after a hard-fought season that saw the ‘Tips earn the top seed and win the central division championship for the first time in franchise history.