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The Press Box: Maypearl baseball and senior salutes: Ep. 25 (April 20, 2020)

This week’s episode of “The Press Box” featured an in-depth conversation with three members of the (11-1-1) Maypearl Panthers baseball team after their season was cut short due to COVID-19.  The link to the podcast can be found at the bottom of this article.  On-air hosts Seth Sims, Tater Beard …

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Former Red Oak wideout ready to take flight with Baltimore Ravens

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Red Oak raised, Dallas-Fort Worth groomed and soon to burst onto the NFL scene in Baltimore: James Proche officially became a Raven on Saturday. The Ravens selected Proche in the sixth round (201st overall) of the 2020 NFL Draft. Go inside the @jamesproche3 …

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The Press Box: The Reagors and NFL Draft: Ep. 24 (April 13, 2020)

This week’s episode of “The Press Box” featured an in-depth conversation with a former NFL veteran and Waxahachie graduate on his son’s upcoming date with the NFL Draft.  On-air hosts Seth Sims, Tater Beard and Brian Stevens spoke with 1994 Waxahachie graduate Montae Reagor about his NFL career and the …

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Gipson inks NLI, becomes first-ever DI men’s hoops signee at Tarleton State

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports One Waxahachie basketball alumnus made a little history Monday evening, by becoming the first-ever student-athlete to sign a national letter of intent to play Division-I men’s basketball at Tarleton State University. And he’ll take the court under a new head coach with four …

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Waxahachie senior follows long path from Ireland to Lumpkins soccer pitch

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Though Emmanuel Nwonkonko was not the lone senior on the Waxahachie Indians soccer team, he certainly traveled further than any of the other eight to get to Stuart B. Lumpkins Stadium. All nine, unfortunately, had their senior seasons and postseason dreams dashed Friday …

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Something to cheer about: Life Waxahachie cheer tryouts go online due to COVID-19

SPECIAL to KBEC Sports WAXAHACHIE — As Ellis County continues the “shelter-in-place” orders to manage the COVID-19 curve, the Life High School Waxahachie and Life Middle School Waxahachie cheer teams are proving their resilience through a virtual solution. They held their regularly planned tryouts — online. “We still wanted to …

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UIL cancels all spring sports, state championships amid COVID-19 fallout

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Finality came by way of UIL press release Friday afternoon — high school sports are finished for the 2020-21 season. The announcement was delivered at little surprise following a directive issued earlier in the day by Governor Greg Abbott, who requested all Texas …

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The Press Box: Waxahachie soccer talks stoppage: Ep. 23 (April 6, 2020)

This week’s episode of “The Press Box” featured conversations with five members of the Waxahachie boys’ soccer team amid the COVID-19 stoppage.  On-air hosts Seth Sims and Brian Stevens first spoke with Waxahachie head boys’ soccer coach Seth Riley and striker Emmanuel Nwonkonko about his journey from Ireland to Waxahachie. …

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Waxahachie, SAGU alumna tabbed as first-ever Lake Belton girls’ hoops coach

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports One Waxahachie and Southwestern Assemblies of God University alumna has been officially tasked with leading a highly-populated and upstart girls’ basketball program into its very first season. Belton ISD made the announcement of Taylor Hill, a 2012 Waxahachie and 2016 SAGU graduate, as …

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