KBEC Sports report As high school volleyball teams begin district play, the Maypearl Lady Panthers were the lone Ellis County program ranked inside its respective top-25 in the latest set of polls published Monday by the Texas Girls Coaches Association. Class 1A-2A 1 Crawford 29-3 2 Iola 25-1 3 Jewett …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports After over 80,000 votes, Waxahachie quarterback Campbell Sullivan edged Ennis wideout Laylon Spencer in the first-ever KBEC Sports Player of the Week poll. When the dust had settled at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, Sullivan had collected 37,700 of the 81,122 votes (46.5%) in the …

Week three of the high school football season saw these four student-athletes stand just a little taller than the rest. Cast your vote early and often before the poll closes at noon Thursday! [yop_poll id=”2″]

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Union Hill scored first, but it was the Avalon Eagles who scored most often in a 60-38 home win Friday night.  The loss was the first of the season for the Union Hill Bulldogs, while the victory improved Avalon to 3-0 with all …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Ricky Pendleton and the top-ranked Milford offense outlasted No. 4 Oakwood in a barn-burner Friday night.  The Bulldogs carried a 60-24 lead into the halftime locker room but were outscored in the second half (30-16) of their 76-54 road win.  Pendleton accounted for …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Maypearl had no answers for the ninth-ranked Clifton Cubs on Friday in a 45-0 road loss.  Clifton outgained Maypearl 543 total yards to 175 in the victory.  The (2-1) Maypearl offense gained 134 of its yards on the ground, led by Cam Chapman …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports The Italy Gladiators defense held Blooming Grove under 200 yards of offense in a come-from-behind win Friday night.  Italy entered the final 12 minutes of the home game knotted at seven and then scored three touchdowns in the 28-13 victory to improve to …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports  A huge third quarter and even bigger defensive stand continued the perfect start to the football season for the Palmer Bulldogs.  Of course, it also made for quite a memorable homecoming celebration, too.  The Bulldogs entered the halftime locker room trailing 23-13, but …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Despite quite the individual performance by Nate Aguinaga, the Ferris Yellowjackets fell in a heartbreaker Friday night at home against Quinlan Ford, 48-41.  The junior quarterback accounted for 289 of the Yellowjackets 341 total yards — a whopping 84 percent of the offensive …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Life Waxahachie flexed its defensive muscles Friday night in a rout of Kemp.  The Mustangs needed just 12 first downs and 430 yards of offense to thump the host Yellowjackets 40-0 and improve to 2-1 on the season. The breeze through Kemp was …