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Rough first half of season for college basket and volleyball teams

With the first half of the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conferences season coming to a close last week for basketball and volleyball, only the Olds College Broncos women's volleyball team had a winning record.
Olds College Broncos player Mikaela Pusher spikes the ball during the Broncos’ game against the Augustana Vikings at Frank Grisdale Hall on Nov. 30.
Olds College Broncos player Mikaela Pusher spikes the ball during the Broncos’ game against the Augustana Vikings at Frank Grisdale Hall on Nov. 30.

With the first half of the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conferences season coming to a close last week for basketball and volleyball, only the Olds College Broncos women's volleyball team had a winning record.

The squad was tied for third place in their division with a record of 7-2 after a 3-1 win against the Augustana Vikings at the Frank Grisdale Hall gymnasium on Nov. 30.

The women's team has defeated Augustana twice this season and they also served up paired victories against Medicine Hat College and Concordia University College this year.

Their other win came from a match against the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and both of the squad's losses came at the hands of the Red Deer College Queens.

Only Red Deer and Grande Prairie are ahead of the Broncos women in their division.

The men's team, which lost to Augustana on Nov. 30 in three straight games, has a record of 0-9 on the season so far and is in the basement in their division.

The men's basketball team has an even worse record at 0-10 as the squad finished the 2013 portion of the season with a 102-64 loss to NAIT at home on Nov. 29.

The women's hoops team is doing only slightly better with a record of 2-9 on the first half of the season.

NAIT pummelled the women's team 76-41 on Nov. 29 at Olds College and the Broncos' only wins of the season came from their first two games of the year when they enjoyed back-to-back wins against the St. Mary's University College Lightning by scores of 65-40 and 60-43 in mid-October.

The teams' season resume on Jan. 10.

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