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The Olds High School (OHS) Spartans football team lost its first game of the year 16-3 to the Bishop Carroll High School Cardinals at Normie Kwong Park on Sept. 18. “They came to play. They've got lots of bodies, which helped them.

In only about two months of training, Olds' Elise Jackson has become one of the strongest 19-year-olds in the country. From Sept. 13 to 14, Jackson competed at the 100% RAW Powerlifting Nationals in Calgary.

The 2014-15 volleyball season is here and Innisfail middle, junior and senior high schools have all started their practices. With their first games and tournaments under their belts, the middle school gymnasium and the new Innisfail Jr./Sr.

Tonight, the Olds Grizzlys will host the Brooks Bandits in a rematch of last season's second round playoffs, where the Black and Gold were swept. The Grizzlys are coming off a pair of losses this weekend. On Sept.

The Olds Grizzlys moved into first place of the Alberta Junior Hockey League's south division after a 5-4 victory at home over the Canmore Eagles on Sept. 16.

With only four years of vaulting experience under her belt, 18-year-old Brooke Boyd of Olds placed the highest among Canadian pairs in the Pas-de-Deux competition at the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.

Twenty-one points in under three minutes was all it took for the Olds High School Spartans football team to defeat the Lord Beaverbrook High School Lords on Sept. 11.

For the second time in a year, an Olds College Broncos men's soccer player has suffered a spinal injury -- this time in his hometown debut. Mike Price was injured Sept. 13 during a game at Normie Kwong Park against the Medicine Hat College Rattlers.

Head coach Macky Singh had nothing but praise for Amber Wolf, his rookie midfielder who made her Olds College Broncos home debut before her entire family at Normie Kwong Park on Sept. 13. "Amber's been fantastic," Singh said.

Bowden's West Central High School Rodeo Club was host to hundreds of high school cowboys and cowgirls during its annual High School Rodeo on the weekend of Aug. 30 to Sept. 1.