By Donnie A. Lucas

Sitting atop the District 8-2A standing, the Lion baseball team picked up another win on Monday against the Cisco Loboes, 13-1.

Albany was also set to play a make-up game on Wednesday (yesterday) in Anson after last week’s showdown between the two state-ranked teams was postponed due to rain. Results of the bout were not available at press time but will be reported next week.

The Lions have one regular season game remaining, which is scheduled for Tuesday, April 27 in Hawley at 7:00 p.m.

Parents of local Little League, coach pitch, t-ball and softball league participants are asked to be aware of upcoming plans to take team and individual pictures of players.

“Because there are so many teams, we’re trying to schedule everything in a timely manner, and we’re certainly aware that not everyone will be at every game,” said Melinda Lucas of The Albany News. “We’ll just do the best we can, and try to get as many people there as possible.”

Lucas said that she will watch the weather and get word to the coaches about scheduling or changes

By Melinda L. Lucas

Nine Albany tennis players will be headed to North Richland Hills next week to compete in the regional tournament a few days earlier than originally scheduled.

Local tennis coach Sara Wilson received word late last week that the dates had been adjusted, and the tourney is now set for Monday and Tuesday, April 26-27 at the Richland Tennis Center.

By Donnie A. Lucas

Albany tracksters returned for a second day of events at the area track meet last Wednesday, qualifying in hurdling and relays for the regional meet set for Friday and Saturday at Springtown.

Some field events involving local athletes will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, including boys’ pole vault, followed by girls’ high jump at 10:30 a.m. The boys’ long jump will start at 11:30 a.m.

Preliminaries in running events will start at 2:00 p.m.

By Sandy Morris

The Moran varsity and junior varsity track team members competed in the District 13A track meet on Wednesday, March 7 at May High School.

Varsity Boys Results

Corey Miller won second place in the 400 meter dash and advanced to the area meet held Tuesday, April 13 in Hermleigh.

Arren Hawley, Memphis McGough, Caleb York, and Connor Hail also competed on the team which finished in sixth place. 

Varsity Girls Results

By Donnie A. Lucas

The Lady Lion softball team picked up a couple of non-district games last week to fill an open week in the schedule, splitting games with former district foes.

Albany traveled to Hamlin on April 6, bringing home an 8-0 win. However, the Lady Lions lost a game to Hawley 12-1 last Friday.

District 8-2A action picked up again for the Lady Lions on Tuesday, with Albany on the road in Baird to earn a 19-0 win that pushed the team to a 6-1 district mark and 12-10 overall.

By Melinda L. Lucas

For the first time in well over a decade, an Albany boys golf team will advance to the regional tournament after winning first place at the district meet last week.

A freshman-dominated team led by Lute Wheeler put together its best two-round total of the year at Maxwell Municipal Golf Course April 6-7, defeating the second place team by 71 strokes.

By Donnie A. Lucas

The Lion baseball team stayed in sole possession of first place in District 8-2A thanks to three wins over the last week, in addition to the news that Stamford defeated Anson this week to give the Tigers a second loss.

Albany (13-3-1, 7-0) is still going into what previously had was thought to be an unofficial district championship game in Anson on Friday, but even a win by the Tigers would not knock the Lions out of first place.

“We would have to lose two of our last three games to go to a tie for first,” coach David Fairchild said.

By Melinda L. Lucas

The Albany High School varsity tennis team earned a clean sweep of champions at the district tournament, advancing nine players to the regional meet later this month in all five divisions.

Tennis coach Sara Wilson commented that this is the first time in her 21 years of coaching, and possibly ever, that Albany has won first place in every category.

In addition, Albany won team titles in both the girls and boys divisions, as well as the overall district title.

The last overall team championship was in 2018, said Wilson.

By Donnie A. Lucas

Sophomore Cole Chapman advanced to the regional track and field meet in three events on Tuesday, with five other Lions and Lady Lions moving on as well during the area meet for field events on Tuesday.

Originally, both field and running events were scheduled for all day on Wednesday in Graham, but organizers moved field events up by one day to Tuesday due to concerns about rain that was in the forecast.