Sports

With a 2-0 start to the season under their belts, the Mexia girls’ basketball team will be sidelined for two weeks due to a player testing positive for COVID-19.

Mexia’s defense shut down Corsicana and the Ladycats ran off 11 consecutive points near the end of the third quarter en route to a 58-37 victory at the Mexia High School gym Tuesday.

Any football coach will tell you one of the keys to victory is not turning the ball over. That adage proved true for the Coolidge Yellowjackets on Thursday night.