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Danielle Lappage of Olds has qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, after dethroning the highest-ranked 63-kilogram wrestler in the country, Braxton Stone-Papadopoulos at the Canadian Wrestling Team Trials.

A five-goal game by one player helped the Toronto Furies defeat the Calgary Inferno 6-5 at the Olds Sportsplex on Dec. 6. Four hundred attended the Canadian Women's Hockey League game.

Dozens of players from Innisfail's girls minor hockey recently participated in the 2015 Canadian Tire Wickenheiser World Female Hockey Festival, known as Wickfest, in Calgary.

It was not the start they wanted, but the scoreboard doesn't always define the battle.

Olds and District Special Olympics (ODSO) athletes got a chance to test their floor hockey skills and just plain have fun with two hockey teams during the past couple of weeks. The latest match took place Nov. 30 versus the Olds Grizzlys.

PENHOLD - The town is moving forward with a new mutual aid agreement with the City of Red Deer. The Town of Penhold and City of Red Deer first entered into a mutual aid agreement back in March of 1979.

The Buck Mountain Mustangs defeated the Bowden Blazers 72-30 in their Alberta Six-man League Tier II final on Nov. 26. “They're tough because they have an offence that runs the ball very well,” said Blazers head coach Chris Grudeski.

Bowden council has demonstrated that it backs the Bowden Blades Pee Wee hockey team. This past week, council approved a request from the team for a $250 donation.

Crossfield's Ian Lowther is the first provincial qualifier for the Olds Rapids Swim Club. The 16-year-old qualified for the Alberta Provincial Championships as a Paralympic swimmer in the 50-metre freestyle.

Teams in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference are taking their mid-season break before play resumes in 2016. Here is where Olds College teams stand. Women's basketball: 3-6, sixth place. Men's basketball: 6-3, third place.