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Volleyball seasons get underway

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It doesn’t take long for the bump, set and spikes to start their sequence once high school teams begin practices. Ennis began theirs on August 1 and were scrimmaging four

Italy hoops gets their Guy

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Italy High School Athletic Director Craig Horn has announced the hiring of Dez Guy as the new head coach of boys basketball. He takes over for Larry Mayberry, who served

Knights mounting up for winning crusade

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Consecutive sub .500 seasons might read like a trend in some towns. Italy is not like those places as they have reached the playoffs in 8-ofthe-past-10 seasons. Optimism is high

Class 2A rankings includes No. 1 Mart

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Dave Campbell’s Texas Football lists the Top 25 teams in Division II of Class 2A, and it includes Mart, the defending champions. Located only 21 miles east of Waco, Mart

Bruceville-Eddy packing a hemi?

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DCTF is picking Bruceville-Eddy (20 miles south of Waco) to ascend from fifth to third place this season. That choice is likely the result of the 18 returning first stringers

Italy opens at home against Palmer

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The seven teams in District 8-2A play the other six teams once apiece. A year ago Bosqueville ran the table with a 6-0 record, one game ahead of Riesen. Those

Fins Up, its Shark season

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Kevyon K.D. Davis, the highest rated player on the 2017 Ennis football team as a playmaking safety and linebacker, is being projected as a starter in his second year at the University of North Texas.

Listed as a 6’0, 195-pound safety for the district champion Lions, a squad who won eight straight after an 0-3 start, played sparingly as a freshman in Denton.

Parlaying an 0-for into financial worth

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Rising from the ashes of an 0-28 senior season on the Ennis basketball court, Scott Muirhead made an unlikely climb that has seen him parlay the experience of that struggle to play college basketball and graduate in four years.

“There wasn’t much fun during that year,” he said in an interview this week. “We could never seem to find rythem on offense and our defense reflected it.”

Palmer returns as an equipped contender

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Palmer is entering its sixth year under the strong and steady influence of Don Waddle optimistic of an encore to last year’s 7-3 season. Finishing third behind Buffalo (12-1) and Edgewood (9-2), who are ranked No. 13 and No. 23 respectively, the Bulldogs like their chances to contend again this fall.

Three-team race between Palmer, Edgewood, Buffalo

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Dallas Gateway Charter, fresh from an 0-9 season a year ago, got little help in the form of a lighter schedule this year. The Gators, have the toughest district itinerary at 43-29 (.597) to go along with a 56-48 overall ledger (.538). New Head Coach Darrin Widemon certainly has his work cut out for him.