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DAILYSCOREBOARD Football n Arlington Seguin 44Waxahachie 33n DeSoto 52Midlothian 24n Ennis 47Mansfield Legacy 0n Red Oak 32Mansfield Summit 29

n Grandview 20Red Oak Life 0n Godley 19Palmer 18n Whitney 46Maypearl 0n Italy 49Malakoff Cross Roads 2

n Stephenville 32Alvarado 20n Venus 28Hillsboro 7n Lancaster 70Man. Lake Ridge 6n Mansfield 37Duncanville 16

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SPORTSEXTRAJV teams win, freshmen splitBoth JV squads get dominating wins while the ninth-graders split with Seguin. PAGE 3B

Midlothian loses to tough DeSotoThe Panthers hung with the state’s No. 2 team, but fell short late. Palmer and Alvara-do come up short. PAGE 6B

Also inside..... Neal’s Wheels

Billy Wessels’ column

Luke Clayton’s outdoors report

Pictures from varsity football PAGES 2B-8B

BY BILLY WESSELSDAILY LIGHT SPORTS EDITOR

The carryover from Tuesday’s loss at Red Oak was evident in the first set of the Lady Indians win Friday.

But the team was finally able to get that match, and its mistakes, behind them and sweep Arlington Seguin 25-15, 25-17, 25-21.

The score of the first game could have been much more dominant, but the Lady Indians had five of their six service errors in the frame, which served up a third of the Lady Cougars’ points in the game on a silver platter.

“Missed serves,” Waxahachie coach Sandy Faussett exclaimed following the match. “I’m very frus-trated with that. I told them that it’s a 30 by 30 square and you are varsity players. Hit the ball into the court period.”

The Lady Indians had eight service errors in the loss to Red Oak and that game was much more pres-sure packed as Seguin brought a total of six fans to the match.

“There’s no excuses. They’ve got

to be able to do that no matter what pressure they’re under,” Faussett said. “Even if I’m blowing an air horn in their ears, they have got to be able to perform.”

But she doesn’t want execution to come at the price of aggression.

“They are at the varsity level. They know how to serve and I want them to serve aggressively,” Faussett said. “They have total control over that. Serving is such a mental thing. There are only two times when you have time to think in volleyball: serving and serve receive.”

And while it may be odd to con-sider, the coach doesn’t want her team thinking much out there.

“When it’s fast, you don’t see defensive mistakes. They don’t have time to think, it’s all about reacting at that point,” Faussett said. “I don’t want them to think so much. They have the technique behind serving and we’ve had quite a bit of discus-sion about it and hopefully we will get better by learning from those mistakes.”

The team also committed the

bulk of its 17 attacking errors and 16 digging errors in the first game, but once they got that out of their system, things kind of got back to normal.

While the second game was marred by miscues, there were a few highlights thanks to a handful of blasts off the right hands of Court-ney Miller, Lisa Trevino and Aeriel Horton. Mary Kate Clark made a great dig from her knees and then assisted a point by Miller to make it 23-15 and really put the set away.

The funniest moment of the match came in the second set as the team’s shortest player, 5-foot-3-inch Shelby Walton was forced into the front row thanks to a substitution mistake. She made the most of her opportu-nity as she made a great dig, which led to a point before being removed to laughs and cheers.

Even though the scores got closer as the match went along, the team was much more in control. The second set was really highlighted by the defense as Celi Bruce and Hor-ton made great digs. Shelbie Tucker

SEE LADY INDIANS PAGE 6B

Volleyball team rebounds with home victory

Photos by Scott Dorsett/Special to The Daily LightArlington Seguin’s quarterback escapes Isaiah Parrish’s clutches (left) and Jamorion Rose (1) and Craig Renfro make a big tackle in the Indians’ loss at home Friday night.

Cougars too fast for IndiansBY BILLY WESSELSDAILY LIGHT SPORTS EDITOR

As the old adage goes, “you can’t judge a book by its cover.”

Going into Friday night’s 15-4A clash, the Indians had a dominant edge in the wins category on Arlington Seguin. But there is a reason why those records don’t really matter too much as the Cougars (2-5) dominated the Indians (4-3) for most of the game to win 44-33.

This was something that Waxahachie coach David Ream warned his team and fans might happen earlier this week as he gave the Cougars great praise for their team speed.

“They had the speed and they put a new quarterback in who is faster than their first one,” Ream said. “It was just a problem of catching him. They are good players and once we got out of position, it was hard to catch them.”

That speed was on display from the opening kick off as Seguin received and returned it 60 yards to the Waxahachie 35-yard line. One play later and the Cougars were inside the 15 and two plays

after that they were in the end zone just 78 seconds into the game.

That speed was on display all night as seven Seguin plays went for longer than 20 yards, including a 75-yard touchdown run that pretty much sealed the game in the third quarter.

But the Indians got a few big plays of their own to even the game in the first quarter. At the end of a 22-yard run by Seguin, Tracy Morrison leveled the ball carrier and forced a fumble, which the Indians recovered. On the very next play, Indian quarterback Jake Villarreal con-nected with Quinn Sargent on 10-yard crossing route, but with no safeties over the top, Sargent was able to race the next 64 yards for an equalizing touchdown.

Seguin was able to respond with a touchdown of their own on the ensuing drive to go back up a score and it never looked back as it scored two more times before the half while the Indians couldn’t get anything going offensively.

“We didn’t get any drives going and we ended up with a 15-yard chop penalty to take away a score,” Ream said. “We don’t have a potent enough offense to overcome

that. We’ve got to get positive yards every play.”

The penalty eliminated a 51-yard touchdown run by Treyvon Hughes in the first quarter that would have tied the game at 14. There weren’t as many flags against Waxahachie this week, six for 59 yards, as there have been in week’s past, but the timing was just as terrible.

After that score was negated and the drive stalled at the Seguin 37, the other costly penalty came on the next drive. With the Cougars facing third and goal at the 19, a defensive holding penalty was called to give Seguin a third and goal from the 10. Two plays later, they were in the end zone to make it 21-7.

The Tribe went three-and-out the next two drives while Seguin scored once more to make it 28-7, but the Indians had a chance to cut into the lead in the half ’s final 20 seconds. Villarreal moved his team into Seguin territory, but a Hail Mary pass just overshot an open Mor-rison and another was just deflected as time expired.

Waxahachie came back from a 16-point hole in the second half to win against

Legacy the week before, and it had a chance to do the same this week. The Indians took the ball first in the second half and Hughes led a 12-play drive that ended with him scoring on a one-yard run to make it 28-14 with 6:37 left in the third. But it took Seguin just one play to take momentum right back on that 75-yard run on the very next play to go back up three scores.

But the Tribe’s defense did get better after that as Seguin only gained 81 yards following that play, much better than the 388 yards prior, it was just too little, too late.

“In the second half we thought we could take out one of their options by putting two or three guys on the quarter-back, but obviously they still made some plays,” Ream said. “We did do better in the second half as we got a few stops that we needed to get.”

Those stops, coupled with two onside kick recoveries, helped the team get the score back to respectable.

A Seguin score made it 42-14 and ap-pear all but over, but the Indians proved

SEE INDIANS PAGE 3B

Photo by Lezley Norris/ Special to The Daily LightWaxahachie’s Ellen Platt drops a shot over the net for a point during the Lady Indians’ sweep of Seguin.

Waxahachie’s comeback bid falls short in 44-33 loss