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By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Xavien Thompson could very well have saved the Waxahachie Indians’ playoff dreams Saturday afternoon. With the Indians clinging to a 5-3 lead and the basepaths full of DeSoto Eagles, the senior centerfielder watched as a sacrifice flyout plated a run to cut the …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Three consecutive shutouts have the Ovilla Eagles rolling through their district baseball slate. The string of wins also has legendary head coach Greg Hayes and the Eagles eyeing yet another run to the TAPPS state tournament. One of those blanks was also the …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Cade Davis strolled to the plate as a pinch hitter in the top of the seventh inning Tuesday evening in Duncanville. As he stepped into the right-handed batter’s box, the Waxahachie Indians trailed the Panthers, 2-1. There were two outs and the tying …

KBEC Sports The Waxahachie Indian baseball program, in partnership with D-BAT Waxahachie, hosted a youth baseball skills camp following Saturday’s non-district game against Red Oak. Youth baseball players in the first through seventh grade were invited to attend the no-cost camp led by D-BAT Waxahachie owner Whoa Dill, who was …

By Travis M. Smith The Ennis Lions celebrated their baseball seniors on Friday with pregame festivities and a lopsided district victory. Ennis outslugged visiting Waco University 12 hits to 6 and capitalized on four errors and eight walks for the 16-6 run-rule win. The Lions plated a pair of runs …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Tuesday night will be one that the Waxahachie Indians can do a few things with before their next trip onto the baseball diamond. The Tribe could sulk; after all, they did squander a golden opportunity in District 11-6A and a three-run seventh-inning lead …

SPECIAL to KBEC Sports NATCHITOCHES – Levi David turned in his most dominant start in a Northwestern State uniform on Saturday. He then landed his first Southland Conference weekly award for the efforts. David, a 6-foot-5 sophomore right-handed pitcher and 2017 Waxahachie graduate, earned Southland Conference Pitcher of the Week honors …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports An Anthony Mata two-run home run and Casey Kelly’s stellar night on the mound fueled the Waxahachie Indians to a District 11-6A opening victory Tuesday night at home against Cedar Hill. Unfortunately, the results were mixed for the Waxahachie Indians on the baseball …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports The state-ranked Waxahachie Indians are off to quite the impressive start to the baseball season. Their 5-1 run through the annual Robert Dulin Memorial Tournament further proved it, too. Waxahachie fell in the opening tourney game against Midlothian on Thursday afternoon, 4-0. The …

By Jerome Stewart | KBEC Sports Maypearl head baseball coach Mike Martin and his Panthers were off to a roaring start last year.  It was the first season as the Panthers’ skipper for Martin and he had the team rolling to start the 2020 season. Maypearl was one of the …