Weather cancels local tennis meet

By Sam Waller

Albany’s plans to host its annual tennis tournament Thursday, March 9 were done in by the weather, costing the program a key outing with district competition looming.

Albany will compete in the Brownwood tournament on Friday, March 24 in its final tune-up before the District 10-2A tournament.

“We held off making a decision as long as we could,” Albany tennis coach M.J. Reneau said. “We didn’t want to cancel because we still want to look at a couple of combinations with players. We hate missing a tournament whenever it’s so close to district.”

Reneau said the Brownwood tournament will include competition from Class 3A schools and smaller.

“That’ll be lot of good competition for us before we hit the district tournament,” she said.

Reneau said one positive to the situation is she’s not waiting on any players committed to other activities.

“For the most part, we’ve had everybody,” she said.

The district tournament is scheduled for the week of March 27-31 at Rose Park Tennis Center in Abilene.