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Olds College will be sending six golfers to the ACAC (Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference) championship after hosting the South Regional tournament over the weekend at the Olds Highlands Golf Course.

The streak is over. Eighteen straight regular season losses from last season, plus another to start this one, with a playoff sweep in between, broken at last in front of 546 fans at the Olds Sportsplex on Sept. 17.

The Bowden Blazers football team is back for its second season in about 40 years. But this time, the squad is playing in the Mountain View 9 Man Football Conference, a move that will have them face local opponents.

If you were to go back in time about 10 years to tell Innisfailian Jaime Williams that she would eventually be among the Crazy Canucks — a six-person relay swim team that recently crossed the English Channel — chances are she would not have believed

The Innisfail Cyclones 9-man football team wasted no time getting down to business Saturday. In the first game of the season, the Cyclones downed the Didsbury Dragons 33-2 but the lopsided score was a bit misleading said head coach Trevor Wooff.

The annual Innisfail Triathlon took place under sunny skies and near perfect temperatures on Saturday. More than 150 athletes participated in the event on Sept.

You could forgive Macky Singh if he wanted to celebrate his women's soccer team's 4-2 victory over Lethbridge College in Olds on Sept. 11. That win was Singh's first since taking over Olds College's soccer program in 2014.

Two members of the Calgary Stampeders – offensive lineman Dan Federkeil, 32, and defensive lineman Quinn Smith, 24, dropped by Westview Co-op in Olds last week for a barbecue and autograph session.

Olds Elementary School received more than 10 hampers full of sport balls from cyclists participating in this year's Pedal for Kids, a five-day, 500-kilometre-long bike ride across Alberta to raise funds for the Canadian Tire Jumpstart charity.

Normie Kwong's legacy lives on in Olds through the Community Learning Campus football field despite the recent passing of the iconic CFL running back, businessman and former lieutenant governor of Alberta.