By Donnie A. Lucas
A total of 46 players showed up for the first day of summer football on Monday, including 12 seniors who are returning for a final season.
“The first day of practice went well,” head football coach Denney Faith. “The guys were in relatively good shape, especially the ones who came to the conditioning sessions this summer, plus we had great weather.”
By Donnie A. Lucas
A total of 40 high school girls showed up on Monday for the first day of two-a-day practices, which will give coach M.J. Reneau the opportunity to put three full teams on the court this season.
The teams have continued practicing a total of five hours each day through Thursday (today), with varsity scrimmages set for Friday and scrimmage matches for all three teams on Saturday in Breckenridge.
By Lynsi Musselman
Albany sports fans are invited to attend the All-Sports Athletic Booster Club Hamburger Supper that will be held at the Bank Park on Monday, Aug. 10 at 6:00 p.m.
The community event will serve a packaged meal in brown bags, handed to guests with a bottle of water for a cost of $7 to the general public.
High school athletes and coaches eat free of charge.
Junior varsity and varsity cheerleaders will make complimentary homemade ice cream, to be pre-served in cups with lids.
By Melinda L. Lucas
Pictures for varsity and JV football players and volleyball players have been set for this week, with cheerleaders next week.
Volleyball players will meet Thursday (today) starting at 5:00 p.m. Locations for the three teams will be announced by coach M.J. Reneau at practices.
Football players and coaches are scheduled for pictures at 1:00 p.m. Friday at Robert Nail Stadium.
The group picture of the senior members of the football and cheer squads will be taken on Friday afternoon about 1:45 p.m.
Golfers are invited to sign up and enjoy two days of play at the Albany Golf Club’s traditional Labor Day tournament on Saturday, Sept. 5 and Sunday, Sept. 6.
James Waters with the Albany Golf Club said there will be a sign up for two tees times on Saturday, 8:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
After Saturday’s round of play, teams will be flighted for Sunday.
“The board will meet mid-week to finalize plans and cost,” Waters said.
He also added the club planted new greens and hopes they will be ready. If not, players will golf on temporary greens.
By Donnie A. Lucas
The Albany Little League Minors played all the way to the championship game last week in the district tournament, falling to Wylie 13-7 in the finale.
Meanwhile, the younger machine pitch team also advanced to the championship, winning the title with a 16-11 rematch against the Wylie Scrappers.
Albany also fielded a major league team that lost 10-0 to the Abilene Dixie Dodgers in the first round.
By Donnie A. Lucas
A group of seven girls and one boy are participating in cross country workouts this week, according to coach Tate Thompson.
Runners met Monday to plan for the season, starting workouts on Tuesday.
The coach set morning workouts at 8:00 a.m. until school starts. Practices will move to 6:15 a.m. beginning on Aug. 20.
“We have a couple of girls who have a very good chance of advancing to regional,” Thompson said.
The coach added that there may be a few runners who are currently involved in volleyball.
By Melinda L. Lucas
Only a couple of spots remain in a kids golf camp that is planned for Monday through Wednesday, Aug. 10-12 at the Albany golf course.
Because there is limited space on the driving range, the event is only open to 20 students from age six to 11, according to Ken Lawrence of the Albany Kiwanis Club, who is organizing the camp.
Sign-ups went fast, he said, and at press time on Tuesday, there was room for just two more campers.
By Lynsi Musselman
The repair of the sewer line in Moran is getting closer to the start of actual construction.
City of Moran employee Karen Bishop said the project, which is being funded by the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program, will be presented to the city council this month for final approval.
Once the engineering group hired by the city, Jacob and Martin, receives approval for their construction plan, the council can start getting bids for the work to be completed.
By Lynsi Musselman
In Moran this week, both the Bulldogs and the Lady Bulldogs began practices on Monday, Aug. 3.
The football players started at 7:00 a.m., and volleyball two-a-days got underway at 8:00 a.m.
Football
Moran football coach John Hughes said practice has gone well so far.
“We had 10 kids come for practice with two more coming next week,” Hughes commented.
The first varsity scrimmage will be at home against Baird at 6:00 p.m, and the first junior high game will be away in Rotan at 6:00 p.m.
