Local Sports

Dominate (verb): To control, govern or rule by superior authority or power. Look it up in the dictionary this fall and you’ll see a photo of the Cochrane Lions peewee football team beside the definition.

Row, row, row your . . . erg? Yes, erg. Springbank’s McKenzie Lukacs has rowed the gym-based rowing machine known as an ergometer, or erg, right into a varsity boat at the University of Minnesota women’s rowing program.

So much for a rebuilding year.

The Bow Valley High School Bobcats are sharpening their claws for another Rocky View Sports Association (RVSA) football season. The Bobcats, practising at the school field ahead of the Sept. 6 RVSA jamboree and the Sept.

This was the year Ben Lawrence was going to break out. He was going to be a game-changer with the Calgary Colts junior football team. But the train didn’t leave the station, the Cochrane High School alumnus instead taking a cab to hospital.

The move from Crossfield to Cochrane and Airdrie appears to have agreed with the Rockyview Silvertips. The Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League (RMLL) Jr.

With the summer season winding up, the Bow Valley Cubs U11 rugby squad has shown improvement, according to coach Andy Townsend.

Try as he might, Jody Turner just couldn’t get in the groove at the Calgary Stampede. The Cochrane bull rider was unable to score on his first three rides, scored $2,500 for an 84.

The 101st annual Calgary Stampede was the first since the last millennium that Grant Profit wasn't driving for dough at the big show. The 58-year-old Cochrane chuckwagon racer sold his entire outfit at the end of last year's Stampede, ending a racing career that began four decades ago with pony chucks. And, while he's had a year to re-introduce himself to the world outside the half mile of hell, Profit still sounds like someone who's misplaced an integral piece of his puzzle.

Jordie Fike just kept getting faster and faster as the Calgary Stampede went on.