Girls Soccer

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports The Waxahachie community is rallying to support a former soccer standout as she begins and continues her fight against cancer. Lexi Workman, 21, first learned that she has stage two lymphoma in her neck and chest in May. She was then informed that …

WAXAHACHIE — Four members of the Waxahachie community recently rallied friends and families to host the first-ever Penn Park Youth Kickball Tournament. The tournament was held Sunday afternoon, June 28 at Lee Penn Park in Waxahachie and featured nine teams from Waxahachie and Ennis with the competitors ranging in age …

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 girls’ soccer teams.  And the decisions on placement were not easy, as a large component to constructing the teams includes overall team success. With no playoff runs to …

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 …

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 …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports As school districts have turned to virtual learning and classrooms amid the COVID-19 outbreak, local athletic departments are now pivoting toward much of the same. Those same district officials are also beginning to make tough decisions related to annual spring athletics events, namely …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports  Friday should have marked the end to the regular season for high school soccer teams. The day, instead, was filled with student-athletes passing the time with toilet paper challenges, in-home workouts, a meddling dog and seated juggling acts on social media. And there …

This week’s episode of “The Press Box” focused on the effects of the COVID-19 virus and its impact on high school and college athletics. On-air hosts Seth Sims and “The Voice of the Panthers” Tater Beard, who filled in for Brian Stevens, first with Luke Morton, a Waxahachie graduate and …

KBEC report AUSTIN — Any last hopes for a return to the playing field for high school teams in Texas were all but dashed Thursday afternoon following the latest action taken by the University Interscholastic League. Via an official press release, the UIL extended the length of the suspension of all UIL-sanctioned activities due to …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports The Midlothian Lady Panthers continued their torrid roll through the regular season Friday by clinching the outright District 14-5A district soccer title. Backed by an Emma Best hat trick, Midlothian bested visiting Corsicana, 8-nil, at the Roesler Athletic Complex. Kaleigh Naizer, Tori Sorrels, …