Sports

Holding true to a season-long pattern of explosive starts and hungry finishes, Ennis vaulted to a 22-6 lead and then rallied late to whip Cleburne, 64-56, on the road.

Despite cold temperatures to turned the fuzzy yellow sphere into snowballs, a handful of Ennis Tennis players finished high over the weekend at the Highway 287 tournament.

One of Lion Nation’s most respected leaders, Gary Fincher, has seen it all in his stint as president of the Lionbackers, the club of supporters of Ennis football. In the past year he has handed the baton to his heir, Jeff Irish.

Football teams across the state continue to secure and finalize their schedules for the fall of 2020, though the University Interscholastic League will not allow the specifics to be published until Feb. 26. That provides time for any appeals made by teams unsatisfied with the recently announced district and regional realignments.

A month after visiting Waco for a mid-day district make-up game on a Saturday in which the Maroon 5 laid an egg, it was a sweet Ennis pay back on Tuesday at the Ensign gym.

Their best outing of the district season wasn’t enough when visiting Waco University H.S. rallied to pin a 50-37 defeat on Ennis last Tuesday.

Desmond Guy and Rolandrus Raindle have tagteamed as new coaches at Italy, each utilizing a spatula to turn over teams that had losing records just a year ago. In fact, the boys have reversed a 7-12 mark into what was 18-5 heading into last night’s away game at Malakoff Cross Roads.

Not nearly as dramatic as the 1992 movie, The Last of the Mohicans, but Italy High School surely felt left alone when the University Interscholastic League separated them from Bruceville-Eddy, Bosqueville, Riesel, Moody and Itasca during this week’s announced district realignment.

University Interscholastic League officials pulled the cover off of the redistricting plans for the next two years, releasing the division of schools based on new enrollment figures.

Kellen Monreal began his first season as skipper of the same team he once starred for, Ennis, with great energy and a 3-0-1 opening two weeks.