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By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports  The Midlothian defense held Everman under 150 total yards to highlight a homecoming victory in a near-must win game Friday night. The 33-14 victory at Midlothian ISD Multipurpose Stadium improved the Panthers to 5-2 on the season and 3-2 in District 5-5A. HOW …

By Trevor Scott | KBEC Sports The Life Waxahachie High School Mustangs fought off a valiant second-half comeback by the Athens Hornets to cement a 55-35 home win Friday night at Mustang Stadium. For Life Waxahachie head football coach Heath Blalock, the victory also served as the “signature win” the …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Thirty-seven years ago, the Red Oak Hawks stood alone atop a district football standing. The program is now four wins away from rewriting that history. It was 1982 when the Hawks last won an outright district championship, though they did share a title …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports  A football team playing as the underdog on the road has to capitalize when afforded the opportunity, especially when deep in the opponent’s territory. Waxahachie did not, unfortunately, do that Friday night against Mansfield Lake Ridge on homecoming night for the Eagles. The …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports The bye week did the Midlothian Heritage Jaguars and their rushing legs good. Behind three 100-yard rushers, Heritage routed Quinlan Ford, 51-13, to begin District 9-4A action on Thursday at Midlothian ISD Stadium. The Jaguars 657 total yards of offense more than doubled …

Three football teams returned from a bye week and several others continued their roll in district action across Ellis County on Thursday and Friday. Midlothian Heritage kicked the week-seven action off with a 600-yard drubbing of Quinlan Ford. KBEC Sports had photojournalists and correspondents on hand to watch, photograph and …

By KBEC Sports Enjoy the history and tradition of Waxahachie Indian baseball through the perspective of past coaches Bill Midkiff and Mike Turner and current skipper Tracy Wood. The three have combined to lead the historic program for 42 of the past 50 years! Click the link below to listen …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports For the first time this football season, a defensive-only player was selected as the KBEC Sports Player of the Week. Patrick Blair, a senior at Ferris High School, received 22,223 of the 42,951 votes cast over the two-day poll to be named the …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports The state-ranked Waxahachie Lady Indians are poised for yet another big-time volleyball match Friday with a potential district championship on the line. The opportunity to break the three-way tie between Waxahachie, No. 14 Mansfield Lake Ridge and No. 10 Mansfield comes after the …

Week six of the high school football season saw these four student-athletes stand just a little taller than the rest. Cast your vote early and often before the poll closes at noon Thursday! [yop_poll id=”5″]