Local Sports

While low-lying areas definitely took a hit in the June 20 flood, offroad motorcyclists are relieved their single-track riding trails at McLean Creek survived largely unaffected.

Chuckwagon racer Jordie Fike considers himself lucky for making it through the High River flood without taking any damage at his property there.

For some athletes, it takes years of practice and hard work to reach the pinnacle of their sport. For a Springbank rugby player, it only took three years.

When it rains, it pours. For Cochrane’s Tanner House it also floods, hails softballs and spawns tornadoes. The Oklahoma City Barons forward has pretty much weathered every storm between here and Moore, OK, in the last two months.

While the town appears mostly high and dry, the Cochrane sporting community did not completely escape the great flood of 2013 without getting a soaker, at least.

School’s out, and Cochrane’s Riley Boothby wants to take what he’s learned to the bank. The former Cochrane Generals sniper is now shooting for the greens on the Professional Golfers’ Association of Alberta Tour.

Cochrane steer-wrestler Tanner Milan is rounding into form with the meat of the season straight ahead. Milan took home just over $7,000 for winning the Daines Ranch Rodeo June 16 in Innisfail. Not bad for 4.1 seconds of work.

Cochrane’s Calum Neff and Canmore’s Sara Hewitt pushed the pace to claim gold on a tough 5 Peaks trail running race June 8 at the Canmore Nordic Centre. The 500-plus runners were greeted with dry trails and sunny skies for a knee-pounding day.

Cochrane is sending two doubles tennis teams to the provincial 55-plus Summer Games next month in Barrhead and Westlock.

Taylor McElroy and Annie Morrison have both been selected to play for Team Alberta at the lacrosse national tournament in Halifax next month.