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Ennis finally plays at home at 7:30 p.m. this Friday against undefeated North Forney (3-0). The Lions started with three road games before their Sept. 20 home debut. It is

Italy scored three straight touchdowns to snap a 7-7 tie with previously unbeaten Blooming Grove en route to a 28-13 win on Friday. It was the Olde Gold’s first win

A year after routing Ford High School, 39-0, in Quinlan, the Panthers returned the favor with a 48-41 triumph at Ferris last Friday. Ford scored the game’s first 21 points

Ennis will host the 21st Annual Lions Den Cross Country Invitational this Saturday, Sept. 21, and for the 13th time, it will be held on the banks of Old City

Big expectations of fans have been quickly deflated for all three small college football teams. Southwestern Assemblies of God University, the only four-year school in Ellis County, and Texas Wesleyan

Palmer overcame a near disastrous start to homecoming when they rose from the canvas and fought back to defeat previously unbeaten Millsap, 33-30. The Bulldogs, now 3-0, scored 27 unanswered

All five Big 5 volleyball teams have played roughly five or six weeks of matches, many of them in tournaments, and each have either begun their district season or are about to start.

Letting up is not in HC Keith Howard’s lexicon. His Ennis Lions tennis team has not lost a district match in nearly 10 years, and they rolled over Waco University H.S. on Tuesday, 10-0.

Over hill and dale they hit the dusty trail against a field of 28 teams at Saturday’s 13th Annual Garey Horner Cross Country Invitational in South Dallas.

There would be no drama on a full-moon night when all-business Ennis mashed Kaufman, 49-14, on the road. It was a sweet payback for last year’s 37-7 drubbing Team Maroon suffered at the hands of the K-Lions.