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La Feria, South lead VMS All-Area Boys Soccer team
La Feria’s Nava earns MVP honors
Adan Nava loves soccer. Actually, maybe love isn’t a strong enough word. Nava is so fond of The Beautiful Game that he transferred from Santa Rosa High School to La Feria last year in order to play.
“It was…
Baseball notebook: Valley’s best baseball still in state title hunt
Three weeks into the state high school baseball playoffs and only two Valley ballclubs are still alive and playing.
Fittingly, the two teams remaining are PSJA, the Valley’s top-ranked team, and Sharyland, which is ranked second in the Valley and…
Grulla baseball deals with more postseason trouble
RIO GRANDE CITY — A week after its head coach was suspended, the Grulla baseball program is dealing with yet another ugly incident.
Game 2 of the Grulla-Columbia area playoff series in Mathis ended abruptly Saturday after game officials ejected…
Harlingen South out for another deep playoff run
HARLINGEN — Maybe it’s fate that Harlingen South is taking on Sharyland in the second round of the state high school baseball playoffs starting Friday.
Five years ago this weekend the Hawks and Rattlers battled in an epic area-round series that…
Baseball notebook: San Benito looks to keep rolling
The San Benito Greyhounds made some huge strides this season. After going 8-19 in 2011, the ‘Hounds found their footing this year and finished the regular season at 18-8.
Moreover, the team was not only competitive in District 32-5A, it came within…
Lady Cards, Lady Hawks lead VMS All-Area girls soccer team
Lady Cards’ April Compean earns MVP honors
It was all about team goals, never individual goals for April Compean.
It was pretty hard to ignore the individual goals. After all, the junior forward-center midfielder did score 39 of them this past…
Harlingen South edges Los Fresnos to sweep bi-district series
HARLINGEN — It wasn’t pretty, but the Harlingen South Hawks are into the second round of the playoffs after holding off Los Fresnos 5-4 on Friday at Harlingen Field in Game 2 of their bi-district series.
The Hawks (19-9) won Game 1 on Thursday…
Baseball notebook: Now it’s win or go home as baseball playoffs begin
The regular season is a thing of the past and now it’s win or go home for 19 Valley baseball teams (20 if you include Zapata) as the postseason begins this weekend.
WELCOME TO THE CLUB: New to the playoffs in Class 5A are McAllen Memorial and San…
Rio Hondo Nine back in postseason after four-year hiatus
RIO HONDO — It’s been a while since Rio Hondo has been in the state baseball playoffs.
In fact the last time the Bobcats were in the postseason, all the current seniors were still in the eighth grade.
But after a four-year playoff drought, the…
Greyhounds looking to end 17-year district title drought
SAN BENITO — The scenario is simple: If San Benito beats Brownsville Hanna in the regular-season finale at home on Friday, the Greyhounds share the District 32-5A title with the Golden Eagles and become the No. 1 seed in the playoffs.
The ’Hounds…