The varsity girls volleyball team ended the pre-district portion of their schedule this week, preparing for the opening of District 6-2A in Strawn on Saturday.
Albany will travel to Strawn for an 11:00 a.m. game for the varsity squad. Strawn does not have a JV team.
The Lady Lions will be back at home on Tuesday, Sept. 11 to host Newcastle in a pair of bouts starting at 5:00 p.m.
The Albany Cubs will open the 2018 season at home this Thursday, Sept. 6, when they host the Dublin Cubs.
A total of 35 students are participating on the two teams, including 18 seventh graders and 17 eighth graders.
Unlike recent seasons, both teams should be able to play separate games throughout the season. Two years ago the Cubs had to be combined on one squad due to low numbers of players, while last season several Albany opponents only fielded one team.
The team of Barton and Hughes won the Championship Flight at the annual Albany Labor Day Golf Tournament with a two day total of 124 strokes, followed by Mitchell and Holson in second with 130, and Echols and Echols with a score of 136 for third place.
Sixty-eight players, grouped into 34 teams of two players each, ended up competing in the tournament after six of the 40 teams originally registered for the event had to cancel due to various last minute conflicts.
Scores from Saturday’s rounds were used to divide the teams into four flights on Sunday.
The 11th Annual Albany Kiwanis Charity/John Rose & Jim Law Memorial Golf Tournament and Fajita Fiesta will take place at the Albany Golf Course on Friday, Sept. 14.
Individuals and businesses can help sponsor the Albany K Charity Scholarship Fund.
The four-person scramble is $50 per golfer, with the fee to include a Fajita Fiesta meal provided by Albany Kiwanians on Friday before the start of the tournament.
The luncheon starts at 11:00 a.m., and tickets are $12 for those not entered in the tournament or listed as sponsors.
The Moran Bulldogs will begin regular season Friday, Sept. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Rising Star, one week later than originally planned, after Benjamin was unable to field a team and had to cancel their Aug. 31 game.
Tomorrow’s game will be the first time new head coach Harley Ethridge will see his players in true game conditions.
“Scrimmages have been productive,” Ethridge said. “My main challenge is to find kids who have little experience and get them ready for varsity play. I am pleased with their eagerness and attitudes.”
The first week of class at the Moran Independent School District went very well, according to superintendent Danny Freeman.
“It was phenomenal,” said Freeman. “We had a great start! I’ve been doing this thing a long time now, and it was the best start to a school year that I have seen.”
According to Freeman, the new teachers fit right in with the existing staff, and the students were excited to see each other, the staff, and the improvements on the campus.
The First Baptist Church in Moran is hosting a community prayer meeting on Saturday, Sept. 8, at 5:00 p.m.
Everyone is welcome to come and join in prayers for the community of Moran, including the school, teachers, students, and individual needs.
The church is located at 616 Post Oak Street.
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Retired teachers have scheduled a kickoff lunch to take place at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 13, at First United Methodist Church.
The group gets together every other month at various locations, and is not restricted to AISD retired teachers.
“It can be a teacher who has retired from any place, somewhere else in Texas, or from any state,” said Gayla Leech. “Or it can be a staff member, or even just a friend of a teacher. Anybody is welcome to join us.”
The Friends of Fort Griffin have been granted permission from the Texas Historical Commission (THC) to move ahead with the next stage of the Sutler Store restoration project at Fort Griffin State Historic Site, and the group is hiring Cox|McLain Environmental Consulting, Inc. (CMEC) to do the required archeological dig.
Opening day of dove hunting in Texas is Saturday, Sept. 1, and for the third year in a row, hunters across the Lone Star State, including those in the Albany area, will have a 90-day hunting season and 15-bird daily bag limits.
According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) dove program leader Owen Fitzsimmons, dove numbers are good across most of the state due to a mild winter and good rains in February and March.
