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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Anxiety crept in late, but the Waxahachie Indian defense continued to prove its worth in a thrilling 31-25 6A Region II area championship victory against Rockwall on Friday at Globe Life Field in Arlington. Waxahachie led 31-18 with 6:40 to play in the …
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