Baseball

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports WAXAHACHIE — The Bryan Vikings entered a 6A bi-district series against Waxahachie having lost just thrice all season. They were also the 14th-ranked team in the class and the champions of District 12-6A. Waxahachie, meanwhile, clinched a playoff spot in the final week of …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports WAXAHACHIE — The script couldn’t have been written much better as the Indians dogpiled their ace Tuesday evening at historic Paul Richards Park. In an age where student-athletes and families flock to the “next” opportunity, high school or select team, Waxahachie senior Jared Thomas …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Andrew Herndon took the bump against Trinity Christian – Cedar Hill as a senior on a mission. He walked off the bump and into the record books — and then some, following his first-ever varsity start. Herndon (1-0, 0.00 ERA) spun a 17-strikeout …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports ….and we wait no more! The UIL released the new fall and winter sports districts for high school athletics at 9 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 3. Scroll down to see where your program landed! Congratulations are in order for the Italy Lady Gladiator volleyball …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports One Ellis County high school jumped classifications, while several narrowly missed the same fate or watched districts dissolve following the UIL releasing conference cutoff numbers. The UIL released the cutoff numbers and preliminary enrollment figures for the biannual 2022-24 reclassification and realignment on …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports WAXAHACHIE — A truckbed sagged much closer to the pavement than it parked as spectators exited the Bill Midkiff Sports Complex on Tuesday night. The result of the heavy load was a canned food drive by the Waxahachie baseball and softball teams. And each …

The annual Waxahachie Homecoming Parade was held Friday, Oct. 22 ahead of the Waxahachie volleyball and football games against Mansfield. PHOTO GALLERY All photos by Travis M. Smith/KBEC Sports

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 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 …