Sports

A year after going 10-3 in District 13-2A, 10-10 overall, Avalon is just weeks away from the start of a new volleyball season. The Class 1A Lady Eagles compete in a nine-team district mixed with 2A and 1A teams.

Big 5 COVERAGE

Coverage of prep football will be at its best in years this fall when The Ennis News expands its weekly spotlight of Friday Night Lights. We already have the best print coverage of Ennis Lions football.

It is often said that people take trips. But when a DeSoto native and current Texas Wesleyan University soccer player was asked to train in Europe this summer, the trip took her.

Small town football is fun and when the local team is good, its magic. Palmer, however, has never been known as a football town until Don Waddle arrived in 2014.

Double teaming an out-manned opponent is great if you’re holding the advantage. Blooming Grove and the Class 3A Lions are about to embark on gaining the upper-hand now that Ervin

Big O Speedway will host a midsummer race with a $1,000 prize in which cars from four categories are in one, large field. The quarter-mile dirt track is located four

NOTE: Please send photos and updates on former Ennis, Ferris, Palmer, Italy and Avalon athletes currently playing in college or beyond to mark@ennisdailynews.com.

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