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By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Historic Paul Richards Park recently served as the final and unfortunate curtain call for 10 Waxahachie Indian baseball seniors. The senior night ceremony, held Friday, June 12, afforded the student-athletes and their families to bid farewell to a high school career cut short …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports WAXAHACHIE — As Ryan Allen sat inside his uncle’s pick-up truck in the Home Depot parking lot Wednesday, he couldn’t help but smile. Sure, his college roommate was still asleep and wouldn’t answer the phone to hear the news. And, yeah, the circumstances …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Three preseason conversations ago, Jay Johnson sat in a half-broken rolling chair and doubted how much longer he’d coach.  Johnson was obviously uncomfortable as he spoke about his Red Oak ballclub and the upcoming season. It was evident in the tone and measure …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports A four-year varsity Palmer Bulldog hurler recently signed his national letter of intent at a junior college baseball powerhouse. Jaden Lopez, a senior at Palmer, cited the overall program success and proximity to home as to why he signed to continue his playing …

This week’s episode of “The Press Box” featured on-air interviews with a pair of Midlothian head baseball coaches. On-air hosts Seth Sims and “The Voice of the Panthers” Tater Beard, who filled in for Brian Stevens, first spoke longtime Midlothian head baseball coach Ray Hydes about his program, philosophy and …

SPECIAL to KBEC Sports NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma baseball freshman Peyton Graham has been named the Big 12 Player of the Week after hitting .500 in five games last week, the conference office announced Monday. Graham went 10-for-20 at the plate, scoring nine runs and tallying four RBIs to lead …

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports Peyton Graham departed from Waxahachie in May intending to find a role as a true freshman on the diamond with the University of Oklahoma. He found it, and is now a middle of the order bat and starting third baseman for one of …

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 …

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!

By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports One Waxahachie baseball alumnus helped comprise the 19-member recruiting class announced Monday by Northwestern State University. Levi David, a 2017 Waxahachie graduate, signed with the Division-I university in Natchitoches, Louisiana following two years on the diamond at McLennan Community College in Waco. The …