By Travis M. Smith/ECS A six-run fifth inning secured a 7-1 6A bi-district championship victory for the Waxahachie Lady Indians on Saturday afternoon. NaLee Nichols tripled into right field to plate Brooklynn Warrix to start the rally in the winner-take-all single-game playoff against Copperas Cove at West High School. Bryten …

By Travis Smith |ECS The Waxahachie Lady Indian softball team finished one of its most successful regular seasons in program history with a 16-0 drubbing of Dallas Skyline this past Friday. Under first-year head coach and alumna Ariel Raney, Waxahachie now boasts a 26-7 overall mark, having also collected 11 …

By Travis M. Smith/ECS Four pitchers combined for an 11-3 road district victory Tuesday evening against Dallas Skyline. The victory improved the Indians to 15-12-2 on the season and 8-5 in District 11-6A. The win — combined with Duncanville’s 3-2 loss to Mansfield Legacy — officially sealed Waxahachie into the …

ECS staff report *Taps the mic thrice* Welcome to Ellis County Sports, a community-first effort to ensure our student-athletes, coaches, programs and history continue to shine as bright as ever. These are your teams. And these are their stories. The ever-changing media landscape has changed once again. And we cannot …

SPECIAL to KBEC Sports ARLINGTON — Sam Houston senior Qua Grant has been named the Western Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Year, as voted on by the league’s head coaches. Grant, a 2018 Waxahachie graduate, was also a first-team All-WAC selection and named to the all-newcomer team. Senior guard …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Roughly one month ago, the season for the Waxahachie Runnin’ Indians was about as hopeless as one could project. The Tribe, under first-year head coach Corey Johnson, was banged up and starting several underclassmen. They had also just begun the second half of …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports An 18-point second quarter proved the difference for the Waxahachie Runnin’ Indians in an upset win against DeSoto. Waxahachie (9-18, 3-6) rallied to enter the halftime locker room knotted at 25. The Runnin’ Indians then found the bottom of the net just enough …

KBEC Sports report Following a relatively short search and several dozen applicants, Maypearl ISD has named Marte Amrine Jr. its next head football coach and athletic coordinator. The official approval by the Maypearl ISD Board of Trustees came during its Jan. 26 meeting. Amrine is an Aledo graduate and played …

KBEC Sports report Kordell Berry rushed for a school-record 5 touchdowns to power Life Waxahachie over Ferris in a non-district tilt. Berry rushed 33 times for 336 yards, which is also a new program-best, in the 50-37 Mustang victory on Sept. 9. The junior also added three catches for 50 …

By Travis M. Smith | Ellis County Sports The winningest volleyball coach in Waxahachie’s history and a top-10 all-time in Texas called it a career on Wednesday. Waxahachie head volleyball coach Sandy Faussett-Stoops made the decision public following a family vacation to Hawaii and at the end of the fall …