Local Sports

Defenceman Nick Borody scored a pair of goals and Tyson Soloski added a single in the Cochrane Generals’ 5-3 Heritage Junior Hockey League (HJHL) loss to the visiting Medicine Hat Cubs Jan. 26 at Spray Lake Sawmills Family Sports Centre.

You can be forgiven if you’re seeing double at Cochrane High School Cobras basketball games. Or triple, or quintuple, etc.

The Cochrane Generals are closer to securing a Heritage Junior Hockey League playoff spot following a stirring 4-3 overtime win over the league-leading Okotoks Bisons Jan. 19 at Spray Lake Sawmills Family Sports Centre.

To greed is human. To forgive is divine.

The Cochrane High School Cobras senior boys basketball team went undefeated in three games to claim their home-court Cobra Classic basketball tournament held Jan. 11-12 in Cochrane.

The cheers you heard at the announcement of a deal between the National Hockey League and its players weren’t just coming from fans.

The South Central Alberta Hockey League (SCAHL) all-star weekend will be on high alert. There’s a pack of Timberwolves on the prowl; Bow Valley Timberwolves. The Bow Valley program is sending two Midget-aged players, three bantams and four peewees.

After spending a week in Sweden, with his wife and 10-month-old son Max, Cochrane’s Mason Raymond finds himself preparing for a shortened National Hockey League season with the Vancouver Canucks.

Somewhere, between winning a Tier 3 provincial high school football championship and being the designated driver for his crew on New Year’s Eve, Cochrane High School Cobras defensive lineman Bryce McKinnon became a University of Regina Ram.

JANUARY * After going 5-0-1 en route to the final of the Mac’s AAA Midget world invitational hockey tournament in Calgary, UFA Bisons of Strathmore are shut out 5-0 by Severstal/Locomotiv of Russia.