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After starting 1-4, Avalon regrouped and became a feisty bunch that are better as a unit than they are individually. HC Tony Marshall’s Lady Eagles finished by winning 7-of-their-last-8, falling only to No. 14 Blum (28-11) down the stretch.

No. 4 Ennis wins 20th district game in a row

Three of the area’s Big 5 volleyball teams have reportedly clinched playoff berths.

Dee Johnson became the 16th player in school history to rush for over 200-yards and scored three touchdowns to ignite a 66-21 Ennis rout of a listless Crandall team.

Is the competition within the district that determines the best teams. Like separating wheat from the chaff, the better skilled teams that produce will remain after the process of threshing.

Ennis Tennis, victors of 12 straight district championships, including a first round playoff win against bi-district competition, fell to perennial state power, Longview, 10-6, on Thursday in Corsicana.

Both Ennis varsity cross country teams, boys and girls, finished seventh in this week’s District 14-5A meet. The Lady Lions have battled for ten weeks to reach full-team status and out-pointed the Lions with 204 points, topping their 165.

No. 4 ranked Ennis (6-0, 3-0) grounded a flightless North Forney (1-5, 0-3) team, 42-13, at City Bank Stadium on Friday night to remain in a three-way tie for first with Forney and Royse City in District 8-5A.

Area Big 5 teams enter the final three weeks of the regular season with Italy nearing a district championship while No.