By Donnie A. Lucas Workouts for softball and baseball have started in the last week, with track practices starting Monday for high school. With basketball season still in session, there will be some overlap especially on the boys side.

By Sandy Morris Albany High School athlete Wesley Estridge continues to have an exceptional season at area powerlifiting meets, improving his state ranking after posting a personal best last week.  Estridge traveled to Snyder Jan.

By Donnie A. Lucas Three of the five junior high teams ended the season on Monday with wins over Stamford. Both girls teams won in Stamford, with the White team wrapping up a 7-2 season and the Red team finishing with a 5-3 record. The White team earned a 41-14 victory over Stamford.

By Donnie A. Lucas Three Albany volleyball players have been selected for positions on the Texas Sports Writers Class 2A All-State team. The annual recognition was released Jan. 30 for the 2020 volleyball season. Junior Sarah Beth Cotter was picked for first team middle blocker.

By Sandy Morris Registration continues for Albany Little League teams, including T-ball, Coach Pitch, Little League Majors and Minors, Intermediate, and Junior League, and will end on Monday, Feb. 8.

By Donnie A. Lucas The Lady Lion basketball team split games last week with district teams, with the regular season coming to an end on Friday. Albany traveled to Anson on Tuesday, suffering a 69-34 loss to fall to 3-8 in district action.

By Donnie A. Lucas The Lion basketball team suffered a second district loss to Cisco on Friday, but is still holding on to a third place finish in the district race at this point. Albany traveled to Anson on Tuesday, defeating the Tigers, who were previously the district leaders, 59-54.

By Sandy Morris Three local 4-H teams competed at the Annual Food Challenge on Wednesday, Jan. 27 in San Angelo.  The local club took two junior teams and one intermediate team with all three teams placing in the competition.

By Sandy Morris The Albany Volunteer Fire Department honored member Jeff Hill with the 2020 Firefighter of the Year merit award at the monthly meeting on Monday, Feb. 1.

By Sandy Morris Pick-up dates for the February distribution of the commodity food program will be Thursday, Feb. 4 and Friday, Feb. 5. Certified eligible families in Moran should pick up their monthly commodity food at the Moran City Hall between 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4.