Sports

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.

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The Albion Seniors were back in action last week with a long road stand cut a little short by weather. Their first match found them in Ord on Wednesday Jun 26th. The Cardinals were a little shaky in the first but got things back on track enroute to a 5-2 victory.

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Albion’s 14U Champion softball team includes (l to r): Coach: Jeslynn Beckman; Lilly Molt; Ella Molt; Harper Olnes; Clara Morrow; Joslyn Schrad; Makenna Devine; Samantha Gragert; Brynna Hagemann; Peyton Seier; Lexxus Schroeder; and Coach Paige Nelson.

Two Newman Grove 4-H membes were among the top senior division places in the Madison County shooting sports competition held Saturday, June 8, at the Norfolk Archery Club. Ten youth competed.

A crowd of about 100 people saluted some of the top athletes from Albion/Boone Central at a new biannual event, the Downtown Athletic Club (DAC) Banquet, on Friday, June 14, at the Albion Country Club.

James Fogleman and Keaton Hunt combined for a one-hit shutout to start the team off for the week, fanning 10 batters through six innings to secure a dominant victory over O’Neill. The bats were hot as well with the Cards scoring 10 runs off 9 hits with runs in all but one inning of the contest.

The Albion Legion Seniors got the bats going early and stifled the offense of PWG to secure 3-2 victory on the road on Sunday, June 2nd. Caden Stokes (SS) cracked a double on the first at bat of the game to get a runner aboard to lead things off for the Cardinals.

Four Boone Central athletes played key roles in the White Team’s 24-17 victory over the Red squad in the Northeeast Nebraska All-Star Football Classic played at Norfolk last Saturday, June 8.