Local Sports

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. This is hockey. So when the Cochrane Generals came back from four goals down to tie Coaldale 4-4, the 5-4 loss on a late Copperheads goal blew Cochrane’s playoff-security aspirations to bits.

Kristen McNab’s adjustment from Cochrane High School’s Cobradome to Medicine Hat College’s Snake Pit is slithering along nicely. The 2013 Cobras go-to senior joined the Rattlers this season and was in Calgary Jan.

Will the real Cochrane Generals please stand up? One week from the next, you’re unsure you’re getting a team mailing it in or fighting for its playoff life. This past week was the latter, as the Generals shook off a 4-2 road loss Jan.

Tristan Walker will have some Cochrane company at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games next month in Sochi, Russia. But he won’t be sharing a table at the Team Canada buffet.

Making the jump from midget to junior hockey can raise a lot of questions about the level of your game. Cochrane Minor Hockey product Colby Chartier has the answers.

Cochrane luger Tristan Walker and doubles teammate Justin Snith of Calgary won a silver medal in a World Cup luge team-relay event Jan. 19 in Altenberg, Germany.

Cochrane’s Tristan Walker, and doubles sliding partner Justin Snith of Calgary, finished eighth at a World Cup luge event Jan. 11 in Oberhof, Germany.

After marching into 2014 with a tactically-superior win over High River, the Cochrane Generals are now firing blanks at a pivotal point in their campaign to seize a Heritage Junior Hockey League playoff spot.

Cochrane Minor Hockey’s Bow Valley Timberwolves program is howling with success. Nine players total at midget, bantam and peewee levels have been named to the South Central Alberta Hockey League’s (SCAHL) all-star weekend.

You want basketball? You’ve got basketball, as the sixth-annual Cochrane Classic high school basketball tournament bounces its way into town starting the morning of Jan. 10.