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Being good enough isn’t good enough for Ferris. The Yellowjackets have won half of their games in the last decade, averaging five victories since 2009. That has been good enough to qualify to play in the Class 4A playoffs in 8-of-10 seasons.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt said of his foreign policy in 1900, “speak softball and carry a big stick, you will go far.” That approach to baseball is working wonderfully for

Anjeanette Robinson-Mays has accepted an offer to become the varsity girls head basketball coach from former Ennis athlete and current football coach and athletic director at Blooming Grove, Ervin Chandler.

Two weeks after the resignations of both head soccer coaches, Ennis Athletic Director Don Drake hired Lonnie Pollard to lead the boys and girls programs for the Lions. Pollard has

For the second time in three years the Ennis football team has a regular season with six road games. Should the 2019 Lions produce like the 2017 team, they’ll be

Sokol Gymnastics in Ennis is preparing for Fall class registration after hosting their “Slet” Competitions for the Southern District of the American Sokol Organization.

Ennis area teams Italy and Avalon, who are regulars in the UIL state playoffs, do not appear in the Top Ten in Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine.

As announced earlier in the year, former Ennis all-district football player Jonathan Taylor Mackey signed a scholarship with Emporia State University, an NCAA Division II school in Kansas.

Winning football is no stranger to Italy, Texas. The town of 1,935 is also known as the I-35 and SH 34 exit for BBQ sandwiches and where a former veteran turned crooner entertains for donations.