Sports

Big expectations of fans have been quickly deflated for all three small college football teams. Southwestern Assemblies of God University, the only four-year school in Ellis County, and Texas Wesleyan

Palmer overcame a near disastrous start to homecoming when they rose from the canvas and fought back to defeat previously unbeaten Millsap, 33-30. The Bulldogs, now 3-0, scored 27 unanswered

All five Big 5 volleyball teams have played roughly five or six weeks of matches, many of them in tournaments, and each have either begun their district season or are about to start.

Letting up is not in HC Keith Howard’s lexicon. His Ennis Lions tennis team has not lost a district match in nearly 10 years, and they rolled over Waco University H.S. on Tuesday, 10-0.

Over hill and dale they hit the dusty trail against a field of 28 teams at Saturday’s 13th Annual Garey Horner Cross Country Invitational in South Dallas.

There would be no drama on a full-moon night when all-business Ennis mashed Kaufman, 49-14, on the road. It was a sweet payback for last year’s 37-7 drubbing Team Maroon suffered at the hands of the K-Lions.

Steppenwolf’s Born to Be Wild captured the attitude of starting a road trip. Get your motor running, head out on the highway, looking for adventure in whatever comes our way.

Taking off the wrapper after focusing on the running game at Waxahachie, HC Sam Harrell unsheathed junior quarterback Collin Drake at Bishop Lynch last Friday.

Palmer scalped Grand Saline in the middle quarters, 34-0, en route to a 54-14 pasting to improve the 2-0 on Friday. The Bulldogs plowed through an Indians team that went