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By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports  MAYPEARL — The 7th annual Robert Woodhouse Invitational ushered in a bit of normalcy and a ton of pride for the Waxahachie cross-country team Saturday at Camp Lakeview in Maypearl. The morning began with the third and final inductee into the Waxahachie Cross Country …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Dress rehearsals are over for the Waxahachie Indian football team and the countdown to Friday’s season opener has begun. The second and final tune-up came this past Thursday on the road against Red Oak at Billy Goodloe Stadium. The two sides held a …

By KBEC Sports The Waxahachie Indians traveled to Red Oak on Thursday evening for a preseason scrimmage against the 5A Hawks at Billy Goodloe Stadium. PHOTO GALLERY All photos by Fred Phipps/KBEC Sports

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports A slew of underclassmen and stellar technical play has helped the Waxahachie Lady Indians storm into the 2021 volleyball season.  After falling in the first match of the three-day Mansfield ISD tournament, Waxahachie rallied to run off eight consecutive victories to claim the …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports The Italy Lady Gladiators began their 2021 volleyball season with a thrilling five-set win Tuesday against Blooming Gove. Italy took the first and third sets by a 25-14 score, despite dropping sets two and four 9-25 and 19-25 to force the decisive fifth …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Three Waxahachie baseball standouts earned four statewide 6A honors over the summer. Two of which marked program firsts.  The first recognitions for the 6A area round finalists began with recent graduates Xavien Thompson and Casey Kelly receiving invitations to the annual North Texas …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Volleyball season returned to Ellis County with a matchup of neighboring programs Tuesday evening in Palmer. The host Lady Bulldogs ultimately fell to the visiting Ferris Lady Yellowjackets in straight sets, 25-11, 25-17, 25-18. Ferris head coach Kyla Menefee, who is in her …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports “When it’s too hot for everyone else, it’s just right for the Indians,” is how David Ream would end nearly every two-a-day practice in the sweltering August heat. That “reminder” was delivered daily on the backfields at Stuart B. Lumpkins Stadium, which is …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Four Ellis County baseball standouts heard their names called this week during the 2021 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. The foursome was headlined by 2017 Midlothian graduate Russell Smith, a 6-foot-9 left-handed pitcher from Texas Christian University. Smith was selected by the …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports It took two rain delays, one power outage, three fields and seven competitors from five Ellis County high schools to decide the winner of the second annual All-Ellis County All-Star Home Run Derby. At the end of the two-and-a-half-hour ordeal Thursday evening, 2021 …