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In a season that began with a return of the scripted helmet logo from the three state championships under Head Coach Sam Harrell, to a stunning 42-28 loss to unranked Mansfield Timberview, Ennis’ dream of another crown ended with a resounding, uns

Friday at the Midlothian Bowl two teams with a taste for big time football will go head-to-head in the Area

Round, the winner continues to play, the loser abruptly calls it a season.

Ever-moving like a grasshopper in a hen house, tailing athletes and coaches requires a GPS system or a current search engine.

Region II, with four of the state’s Top Ten teams, saw each of them advance on the first weekend of playoff games. No. 1 Ennis and No. 2 Aledo hammered opponents, while No. 8 Lucas Lovejoy and No. 10 Frisco also won their Bi-District openers.

Scoring the first seven times they had the ball, No. 1 ranked Ennis clobbered Frisco Liberty, 49-0, on Friday in a Class 5A Bi-District playoff game at Lion Memorial Stadium.

Should the No. 1 ranked Ennis Lions make a deep run in the Class 5A playoffs, they will need key players performing at a high level. To win their sixth championship, they must win six straight playoff games.

Many observers believe the 2020 state football champion will arise out of the 16-team field that is Region II of Class 5A. Of course the last two years has seen Aledo win their eighth and ninth state titles.

Sixty-four teams are entering the Class 5A Division II state playoffs next weekend, 16 in each of the four regions. Which one most resembles a gauntlet for teams to survive?

When Jay Tullos, head of EISD schools, handed the District 8-5A championship trophy to Head Coach Sam Harrell on Thursday following a 56-3 rout of Greenville, it was the 16th time an Ennis football team went undefeated in the regular season.

It’s a good thing that cats have nine lives, otherwise Greenville’s inert Lions looked finished in their 56-3 flatline exhibit on Thursday against No. 1 ranked Ennis. The regular season finale dropped the visiting Lions to 4-4 just a week after they lost, 56-49, to Royse City.