The Lady Lion softball team will host Jim Ned on Thursday for the season-opening scrimmage. Game time is set for 5:00 p.m. at the city park.
The season opener will also be at home, with Albany hosting Breckenridge on Tuesday, Feb. 12 also at 5:00 p.m.
The girls will compete in the Eastland tournament on Feb. 15 and 16.
With several members of the team still involved in the basketball playoffs, the group had its first full practice on Wednesday.
The Cubs and Lady Cubs ended the season with a set of games against Roscoe on Monday, with the boys winning their games while the girls lost.
The Lady Cubs also played in the Stamford tournament on Saturday with mixed results.
The boys closed out the season on a positive note, bringing home three victories.
The eighth graders earned a 50-17 win on Monday.
Cortnee Duvall, Reyna Garcia, and Allison Beard, all of Albany have been named to McMurry University’s Fall 2018 Dean’s List. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, a student must have maintained at least a 3.5 grade point average while taking 12 or more hours.
Payton Rogers, also of Albany, has been named to the Fall 2018 Dean’s Honor Roll for McMurry. To be eligible, a student must have maintained at least a 3.5 grade point average while taking six to 11 credit hours.
The fifth and sixth grade boys’ and girls’ basketball teams will end their season this Saturday, Feb. 9, with games scheduled to take place in Clyde and Eula, just in time to free up the Albany practice gym for Little Dribblers.
Three teams of girls and four teams of boys from eight years to fourth grade are playing in the Albany Little Dribblers at the practice gym on nine-foot goals with games starting at 9:00 a.m. every Saturday from Feb. 9 through March 2.
Three Albany students showed project animals at the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show in Fort Worth last month, and two of those brought home ribbons.
Two local youth also placed in the San Angelo goat show last weekend.
Fort Worth Results
Gracie Price placed third with her Maine Anjou heifer, Gracie Girl 15, in Early Summer Heifer Calves on Jan. 26.
Paisley Clark took third in Medium Weight Wether Goats on Jan. 27.
Conner Clark also showed a goat at Fort Worth.
Elizabeth Martin has been named to the Dean’s List at West Texas A&M University for the Fall 2018 semester, according to Dr. E.W. Henderson, Dean of the College of Education and Social Sciences.
Martin, a graduate of Moran High School, is the daughter of Holly and Lanham Martin of Moran.
The National Weather Service (NWS), with the help of local organizations, conducts SkyWarn classes each spring all over the nation, including one scheduled for this Friday, Feb. 8, in Breckenridge.
The course in Stephens County will be at the First Baptist Church’s Family Life Center at 301 South Rose Ave. Breckenridge, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. tomorrow evening and will be conducted by representatives of the Fort Worth branch of the National Weather Service.
Three of Moran’s basketball teams completed their seasons this week with final games for the junior high players on Monday, Feb. 4, and on Tuesday, Feb. 4 for the girls varsity team.
The Bulldogs still have two district games left, and they will play in Gordon tomorrow, Feb. 8, at 7:30 p.m. and at 8:00 p.m. in Ranger next Tuesday, Feb. 12.
Junior High Results
The junior high Lady Bulldogs lost in Strawn this Monday, 15-42.
Scoring for Moran were Chole Hendricks 9 and Emily Murk 4.
Wortham Glenn Key, 80, of Albany, passed away Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019 at Lyndale Senior Living in Abilene, Texas.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, Feb. 5 at Matthews Memorial Presbyterian Church with Rev. Anthony Ceder officiating. Interment followed in the Albany Cemetery under the direction of Morehart Mortuary.
He was the fifth of seven children born to Delmon Wortham and Letha Bell Key. He was born on Oct. 13, 1938 in Throckmorton, Texas.
Following graduation from Throckmorton High School, Glenn worked in the oil field and farmed.
Ann McArron Jones, 83, passed away in her home in Albany, Texas, on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. A funeral service was held on Sunday, Feb. 3, at the First Christian Church in Albany under the direction of Bailey Howard Funeral Home of Clyde, with Pastor Brad McBee officiating.
