By Mike Stott
Special to The Eagle
Cochrane Rangers 1 Men’s coach Dave Currie was all smiles after his team overpowered the Silverback SC Aug. 21.
Currie has patiently turned the fortunes of the team around and a win elevated the team to the provincial playoffs in Edmonton. With injuries and summer vacations affecting the roster, Currie laced up the boots himself in support of the team.
Early stages of the game saw Silverback play with some fast ball movement, interactions between the midfield and forwards controlling the play. The ever reliable Rangers defender Warren Mullenix ensured his defensive partners Mike Warwick, Dan Warman and John French stalled the opposition at the 18-yard box.
Midway though the first half the Rangers started to take control of midfield, helped by the efforts of forwards Mike Mullenix and Sam Withey and good support on the left wing from midfielder Ashley Boyd and defender John French. The Rangers’ efforts where answered with a well-placed shot from hard-working Mike Mullenix that gave the team a 1-0 lead at half time.
In the second half the Silverback tried to equalize but were unable to penetrate the Rangers midfield and it was Warman who scored to take the Rangers to a 2-0 lead.
Minutes later an error by the Silverback defence allowed Coach Currie to pick up a bad back pass, dribble the ball past the last defender and score for a well-earned win with a final score of 3-0.
The Lady Rangers 1 battled the Grasshopper SC in an exciting game Aug. 15 with two great goals in the first half by Monique Tambay and U-18 recruit Milissa Sedrovic.
However, the Grasshoppers were also in a scoring mode and they led 3-2 at the end of the first half.
The second half saw the Grasshoppers take their score to five but the Lady Rangers battled back into the game with some great passing through the midfield by Sue O’Reilly, as well as some good defensive work by another U-18 recruit Karla Binder and defence partners Tanis Hagerman, Emily Smith and Angela Blakely.
The Rangers added two more goals by Dee Dee Cook and Jo Daviduk to bring the score to within one but as the Rangers continued to mount attacks to tie the game it was the final whistle from the referee that stopped the gallant effort with a final score 5-4 to the Grasshoppers.

The Rangers Men’s O-45 team faced the Southside Rangers in an important relegation battle Aug. 15.
It was an entertaining game from the first touch of the ball with both teams playing open, attacking soccer.
Southside scored first from a penalty which was awarded for an infringement in the 18-yard box. Goalkeeper Rob Bowden could do very little to stop the well-taken shot.
Minutes later the Cochrane team levelled the score.
Both teams traded goals and it was in the last third of the game that the Rangers started to take full control with some nice flowing passes down both wings.
Left defender Ed Blanche had a strong game causing problems for Southside with his overlapped runs down the left wing.
Forwards Willie Harrison and Billy McCorkindale created more opportunities and took the Rangers goal count to four with a final score of 4-2 to the Rangers

The Rangers O-35 Men’s team went down to there second defeat of the season against Darts by a score of 4-0 Aug. 16.
Two days later the team was able to keep in the promotion race when they beat Crusaders 2-0.

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