Sports

Seeking an end to a five-year string of losing seasons, HC Joe West and Ferris begin a new season next week following a hard-working fall and winter by the Yellowjackets.

Baseball has long been a strength in Palmer, enough that reaching the playoffs is a foregone conclusion. A year ago HC Joe Robinson and the Bulldogs rode a 19-8-2 mark, into the area round before falling in three games to Gunter (27-9-1).

University Interscholastic League officials will release the new district realignments, which were projected by the Dallas Morning News this week on the eve of the Feb. 3 official announcement.

Monday is a huge day for athletic directors and football head coaches as the UIL unveils the new district alignments, which prompts the need for the scheduling of non-district games.

Looking like an award-winning ice sculpture for three quarters, the Ennis boys basketball team built a 19-point lead then watched it nearly melt away before hanging on to defeat Corsicana, 57-50, on Tuesday at the Ensign Gym.

Rackets were hot during very cool weather as the Ennis junior varsity tennis team turned in victorious results last week at the make-up of the Frostbite Tournament.

While not a strong spectator sport in high school or college, tennis remains one of the winningest sports at Ennis High School. Under the superior tutelage of HC Keith Howard and Wyatt Johnson, the varsity team has begun play with Friday’s Polar Bear Tournament

Heartbreaking was the passing of sports icon Kobe Bryant on Sunday morning. The news first arrived on my laptop from Reuters, and then, like groggy eyes on the day of rest, ten minutes later began a rapid-fire of the kind of news you don’t want to hear of anyone’s death… unless you’re the Hollywood elite pleading for a violent death for the president, first lady and their offspring. That is malice and it is disgusting.

Ascending to the top of the leader boards like the weights they were lifting, Ennis took four first place awards over the weekend at a powerlifting event in Navarro County.