The Lion baseball team picked another pair of wins last week, with the most significant being the district opener in Stamford.

Albany hosted Baird on Tuesday, earning a 16-6 victory to keep the streak going and improving the overall mark to 8-4. Details will be reported next week.

The Lions will stay at home again on Friday, with a game against the Hawley Bearcats as the hunt for the district title continues. The opening pitch is set for 5:00 p.m.

The local team will once more be at the local field Tuesday, April 2 to host the Eula Pirates starting at 5:00 p.m.

The girls track team finished as the fourth place team at the Eastland track meet last week, while the varsity boys placed sixth out of eight teams present.

The JV boys had the best team total of the day for Albany, placing third overall with 83 points. 

The girls garnered 61 points and the varsity boys scored a total of 36 points.

Albany will host a meet Thursday (today) starting at 3:00 p.m. with field events. Running events will follow at about 5:30 p.m.

The Lady Lion softball team split games against district teams last week, beating a Class 1A opponent while losing to a 2A contender.

The district is mixed this season with a combination of both 1A and 2A schools, but teams in each classification will go separate ways when it comes to the playoffs.

Albany traveled to Haskell on Tuesday, suffering a second loss to the Maidens 18-0. Details of the bout will be reported next week.

The Albany track teams are hosting a high school track meet today, and as of press time, volunteers were still needed to help run the concession stand.

Tracksters, coaches, parents, and fans from eight area schools are visiting in Albany today, and many of those will eat at the concession stand.

The Booster Club served about 800 school meal deals to participants at Monday’s junior high meet, and they expect today to be busy as well.

Two Albany High School golfers competed in the first round of the district golf tournament Monday at Maxwell Municipal Golf Course in Abilene.

Both local athletes were entered as medalists because there are not enough players for a team.

The top two medalists from the district meet, if they are not already on a winning team, advance to the regional tournament, as do all members of the top two teams. 

Albany tennis players hosted five other schools in a practice meet here last Wednesday, March 20 in preparation for  tournament action this week and the district competition April 2-3.

The AHS athletes are entered in the Abilene High School Invitational Tournament this Friday and Saturday, March 29-30 prior to the district tournament at Rose Park in Abilene the following week. 

Players came from Eastland, Moran, Lueders, Breckenridge, and Anson, according to tennis coach Sara Wilson.

Results are as follows:

Mixed Doubles

Albany High 2018 graduate Reyna Garcia got her first hit as a college softball player just a couple of weeks ago, and it was one that she will probably always remember.

It was not Garcia’s first time at the plate as a member of the War Hawks. The freshman had struck out a couple of times earlier this season and had scored a run back in February after taking four balls from an Austin College pitcher. 

But the hit during the March 15 game with Concordia was special.

“My first hit was for a home run!” Garcia said. “Everyone on my team was really excited.”

The seventh grade boys and eighth grade girls teams both brought home third place finishes from the Eastland track meet last Friday, while the other two squads finished in fourth place.

The Cubs and Lady Cubs hosted a meet on Monday, but results were not available at press time.

The junior high will travel to Roscoe for the district meet on Thursday, April 11.

The eighth grade girls racked up 106 points for third behind Cisco and Breckenridge.

Moran varsity teams and JV boys competed at the Blackwell Hornet Relays on Friday, March 22, and Kobee Lapp led the Bulldogs to fifth place overall with 53.5 points.

Paint Rock won the meet with 143 points.

Lapp earned four individual medals for 30 points, as well as contributing to the fourth place 4x200 relay team, to garner eight more points and an additional medal.

Lyric Huskey earned four medals, and Harley Schafer was awarded two.

The District 20-1A University Interscholastic League Academic Meet took place at Eula on Tuesday, March 26, and several students from Moran were among the competitors.

Results were not available at press time and will be reported next week.

Representing MISD at district were 11 students entered in six events, as listed below.

Number sense: Darrian Hawley, Hannah Rogers, Reshaley Schafer.

Ready Writing: Johnnie Hise.

Prose: Corbin Roberts.

Spelling and Vocabulary: Jaylynn Roberts.