Albany Athletics Booster Club will honor the achievements of the Lions andLadyLionsteamsMonday, May 13 at the annual athletic awards banquet. The school year has seenAlbany advance to the postseason in nine sports and state competition in three.

AlbanyJuniorHightennis players placed in six of eight draws last week at the district tournament, earning five titles. The tournament was played Thursday-Friday, May 2-3 at Rose Park Tennis Center inAbilene.

TheAlbanyGolfCourse will host a three-person scrambletobenefitProject Christmas on Saturday-Sunday, May 18-19. As of Monday, May 6, just eight spots remained open for the event, all in the morning flight.

Albany’s Red Thunder softball team is sponsoring an 8U softball tournament May 17-18 at Webb Park, according to Ragan Riley, organizer. As of Tuesday afternoon, the tournament was already full, and no more entries were being accepted, Riley said.

Albany Little League’s regular season will last just a little longer thanks to a pair of rainy days last week. Little League president Paul Hamilton said games scheduled for Thursday, May 2 and Friday, May 3 will be made up next week.

Nine Albany tennis players made their bids to qualify for the Class 2A state tournament this week, competing Wednesday- Thursday, May 8-9 at the Region II-2A tournament at Richland Tennis Center in North Richland Hills. No results were available at press time.

TheMoranboysdoubles tam of CalebYork and Ellis Hise will compete in the Region II-1A tennis tournament Thursday-Friday, May 9-10 at San Angelo. A top-two finish at the regional tournament will earn the duo a berth in the Class 1A state tournament, scheduled for Thursday-Friday, May 16-17 at Blossom Tennis Center in San Antonio.

Senior and freshman girls will square off against the junior and sophomore girls in this year’s powder puff football game sponsored by the Feed Store. The game will be played at Robert Nail Memorial Stadium at 2:00 p.m.

For the second year in a row, the Albany Lions are coming homefromthestategolftournament with a team trophy. Albany repeated its thirdplace finish of a year ago at the Class 2Astate tournament, played Monday-Tuesday, April 29-30 at Lions Municipal Golf Course in Austin.

After an up-and-down start to the District 8-2A baseball schedule, the Albany Lions madeastrongpushtothefinish, earning a share of the district title last week with run-rule wins at Cisco and Stamford. Albany (15-2 overall, 8-2 district) will take on Coleman this weekend in a best-of-three bi-district series.