Red Oak High School

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports RED OAK — The football season was supposed to open at Billy Goodloe Stadium in Red Oak with a nailbiter between two state-ranked foes. It was instead a headscratcher for the host No. 9 Red Oak Hawks, as No. 1 Ennis ran away with …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports The Friday night lights have finally returned to the night sky over Stuart B. Lumpkins Stadium. Those lights brought about a controlled scrimmage between 6A Waxahachie and 5A state-ranked Red Oak that featured several hundred fans, half a dozen touchdowns and one heck …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports For two perennial volleyball powers in Ellis County, the season began in relative silence. There was not a single fan in the stands on either side of the court Friday evening when Red Oak and Waxahachie began their respective seasons. Those in attendance …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports A sand volleyball court in Waxahachie is proving one serve at a time that sports have a way of uniting communities. And, in a world currently void of amateur sport but heavy on hate, the friendly competition has also proven capable of healing, …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports WAXAHACHIE — The first-ever Ellis County Home Run derby came down to the final 38 seconds Thursday night at the Waxahachie Sports Complex. And when 2020 Waxahachie graduate Aaron Tesei took his final hack a few pitches later, he remained one long ball short …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Following a season cut short by COVID-19, the team at KBEC Sports has diligently pieced together the first-ever KBEC Sports All-Ellis County boys’ soccer teams.  And the decisions on placement were not easy, as a large component to constructing the teams includes overall and postseason team …

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 …

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 …

RED OAK — In a world void of sport, one Red Oak alumna continued her reign Thursday. Louise Ritter, a 1976 Red Oak High School graduate and three-time Olympic qualifier, was voted as a “landslide” winner for the first USA Track-and-Field Throwback Athlete of the Week award. The announcement was …

This week’s episode of “The Press Box” featured the live on-air announcements of superlative winners for the KBEC Sports All-Ellis County girls’ basketball teams.  On-air hosts Seth Sims and Brian Stevens spoke with Red Oak head coach Jason Sasser and senior Keshawn Green, Midlothian head coach Steven Middleton and freshman …