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WOW. I don’t even know where to start this week. First off, I guess, is to correct last week’s article. Last week’s article was written by Kent Wing, not Lee Kemp.

The Pee Wee Cyclones' season finally came to an end last Saturday, not at the hands of another team, but because they ran out of teams to play.

The Olds Grizzlys were silenced on the weekend, suffering back-to-back shutouts against one of the Alberta Junior Hockey League's best teams, the Brooks Bandits, on Saturday and the Drayton Valley Thunder on Friday.

The Olds Grizzlys found themselves fighting a losing battle in two home contests last week against Alberta Junior Hockey League opponents.

The Olds College Broncos junior varsity women's basketball team came away from a recent pre-season trip to the West Coast brimming with confidence after beating the Camosun College Chargers in Victoria on Nov. 5, 71-68 in overtime.

More than 100 people are expected to turn out to the high school football field this weekend for provincial finals between the Innisfail Pee Wee Cyclones and Calgary Colts.

Coming off a consolation side win at a tournament in Vegreville on Nov. 4 and 5, the Olds High School senior girls volleyball team claimed the south Chinook's Edge School Division league title on Wednesday in Sundre.

This weekend saw the Eagles head up to Lloydminster for a couple of matinee games against the host Lloydminster Border Kings.

The Innisfail Eagles had a home-and-home weekend against the Stony Plain Eagles. Friday night the Eagles played at home and then ventured up the good old Highway 2 on Saturday.

Just a day after being granted a trade to the Okotoks Oilers, defenceman Craig Gans burned his hometown team by assisting on the overtime winner against the Olds Grizzlys in Alberta Junior Hockey League play on Friday.