Sports

Getting over a loss can be very tough. Unfastening the pain is a hard trailer to unhitch. And when its a season-ending loss, with no next game in which to

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Four Class 5A, Division II teams moved ahead to the fifth round of the state football playoffs last Friday. Three of them were favored to win, but one stunned the

No. 1 Aledo (13-1) had just enough to survive a never-say-die, unranked Ennis (12-2) team, 43-36 in overtime, to advance to the state semifinals and a date next Saturday with No. 6 Lubbock Cooper (13-1).

Pre-district games continue, not to mention area tournaments for Big 5 girls basketball teams in Eastern Ellis County. Out of the gate, both Italy and Palmer are racking up wins.

Warde’s Wheelhouse

Football has been a part of my life since junior high when a friend introduced me to electric football. I never understood the game until reading the rule book about those plastic men on a vibrating surface.

Slow and steady may win the race, but its not much of a strategy for basketball. The Ennis boys basketball team has crawled to an 0-6 start with a completely rebuilt motor.