After a five-game losing skid to start the 2022 campaign, the Bow Valley Bobcats football team won their first game in four years (although the 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic) on Oct.
The Bow Valley Bobcats are celebrating their first football win in four years after beating the Springbank Phoenix 28-6 on Oct. 6.Scott Strasser/Cochrane Eagle
After a five-game losing skid to start the 2022 campaign, the Bow Valley Bobcats football team won their first game in four years (although the 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic) on Oct. 6, when they defeated the Springbank Phoenix 28-6. Head coach Dustin Paul said the players did all the little things they needed to in order to produce the long-awaited victory.
Finishing yet another regular season without a blemish on their record, the Cochrane Cobras’ capped off the 2022 regular season with a 28-16 win over their closest challengers, the W.H. Croxford Cavaliers of Airdrie, on Oct. 14.
The Airdrie-Cochrane Havoc U16 AA boys’ hockey team hosted the annual ‘Pink in the Rink’ fundraiser game for breast cancer awareness on Oct. 22. The Havoc, whose players sported an all-pink uniform for the game, beat the Lethbridge Hurricanes 10-0.
The 2022 high-school girls’ soccer season ended in disappointment for both of Cochrane’s public school division squads. The Cochrane Cobras were shut out 6-0 by the dominant Springbank Phoenix at Airdrie’s Monklands Athletic Park for the Rocky View Sports Association banner on Oct. 20, ending a four-season win streak. The Cobras had lost in the South Central Zones final to the Phoenix the weekend before. The Bow Valley Bobcats, playing on an adjacent field in Airdrie, lost 3-0 to the Bert Church Chargers in their battle for bronze.
The St. Timothy Thunder ended the 2022 high-school cross-country season with a second-place showing in the 2A category at the provincial championships on Oct. 15 at Enoch Cree Nation. Six runners from St. Tim’s represented the Catholic school, finishing the meet with 695.11 points. Cochrane High School, meanwhile, also finished as runners-up, albeit in the 3A category.
For the first time since 2014, the Cochrane Cobras football players did not hoist the Rocky View Sports Association banner, after losing to the George McDougall Mustangs in the divisional championship game on Oct. 28. Despite a spirited fourth-quarter comeback, the Cobras were defeated 38-20 by the Airdrie team. It marked Cochrane’s second defeat in a competitive game in eight years.
