Sports

The 2024 Boone Central Health Center Foundation Golf Tournament was held on July 19, with championship honors going to a team of “Commscope/Anixter Wesco.” This year’s event was put together by the Foundation to help raise funds for the new 3D mammography unit. The event was able to raise $13,500 for the “Upgrade to Excellence” campaign.

It was a busy week for the Albion Cornerstone Legion Seniors with three games on the road. They got off to an amazing start walloping Atkinson on Monday the 15th 17-2 before winning both sides of a double header in Orchard on Thursday, 4-1 and 6-2.

The Albion Cornerstone Bank Post 162 Legion juniors squad saw their season come to an end at the Class C Junior Legion State Baseball Tournament after just two games on Saturday and Sunday, July 20 and 21.

The Albion Junior Legion Baseball team took to the field on Greg Paesl Memorial Field in Creighton for the 2024 Class C Junior Area 1 tournament with their first game on July 12. The Juniors fell to Crofton’s Post 128 boys in the first game in an uncharacteristic 11-1 game; and then defeated the #1 seeded Adams Post 221 in a final inning 8-7 win, in their second game to catapult them back into the tournament in good fashion.

The Albion Seniors hosted St. Paul on Monday, July 8th for their final home game of the regular season.

Wayne State College women’s golf team had three players named to the 2023-24 WGCA (Women’s Golf Coaches Association) All-American Scholar Team announced Monday, July 1, by the coaches’ association office in Coral Springs, Florida.

Two athletes hailing from Albion will be named to the Chadron State College Athletic Hall of Fame this fall. Josh Majerus, a standout wrestler at CSC and now head wrestling coach at Boone Central High School, is one of five honorees in wrestling.

Nebraska Raptors 14U softball team, playing out of Silver Creek, recently claimed the District 5 softball championship in Grand Island to earn a spot in the Class C State championships. Team members are (front, l.-r.) Jaedyn Friesen, Brielle Wiese, Emma Preister, Brecklyn Kurz and Chloe Schott; (back) MacKenzie Kurtenbach, Caitlyn Ferris, Sierra Reardon, Adalyn Bishop, Lily Thieman and Kaleigh Rickard-Fischer. The players are from Fullerton, Genoa, Silver Creek, St Edward, Petersburg, Humphrey and Lindsay.

With the Boone County Fair on deck for next week, the Boone County Raceway will be holding the annual Tanner Pelster Memorial event this weekend, July 7. This year’s event will feature a number of specialty payouts sure to attract some racers – a Late Model Payout; Hobby Stock Payout and Stock Car Payout and more have upped some of the prize money to $1,311, $1811 and $6,111 as of Monday.

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