Local Sports

Two words: Team defence. When you give up an average of 7.5 goals in your first four regular-season games, your defence, or lack thereof, is showing.

Some people go to Hawaii to enjoy the sunny beaches. Some go to snorkel, surf or golf. Others go to just chill. Then there’s Cochrane’s Colin McArthur, who’s in Hawaii to subject himself to one of the most torturous athletic endeavours known to man.

Quarterback Levi Jackson threw four touchdown passes and ran for one more as the Springbank Community High School Phoenix defeated the visiting Bow Valley High School Bobcats 57-6 in Rocky View Sports Association Tier 2 football play Oct.

The Cochrane Rangers Soccer Club is taking aim at a world record for playing soccer. Soccer Quest 42 will see 16 players play 5-on-5 indoor soccer for 42 hours or more to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest 5-a-side soccer match.

Last team with the ball wins. And it was Cochrane’s Evan Perrault clutching the rock as the final whistle blew on a 25-24 Calgary Bantam Football Association win over Calgary Cowboys Navy.

With all the fresh faces on the ice for the Cochrane Generals right now, it might be easy to miss the new face off the ice. But the team’s new general manager, Jacqueline Hurlbert, is hard to miss. At 22, she doesn’t fit the hockey GM stereotype.

The Cochrane Generals ended summer the same way the finished their season last spring. With a loss. But summer’s over and the first game of the 2012-13 Heritage Junior Hockey League season has gone with it.

The Cochrane High School Cobras opened their Rocky View Sports Association (RVSA) football season with a gritty 27-10 win over the visiting Springbank High School Phoenix on Sept. 22.

The Cochrane Lions have yet to be caught in their run through the Calgary Bantam Football Association jungle. The Lions scratched out their fifth-straight win of the season with a 32-14 win over the Calgary Hilltoppers Sept.

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