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MVP Ramirez is latest Lopez player to win All-Metro award
As a four-year starter for the Lopez soccer team, Jose Francisco “Paco” Ramirez has witnessed the memorable feats of quite a few impact players for the Lobos dating back to his freshman season. There were incredible contributions made by ex-Lopez…
Raiders’ Troncoso picks up defensive MVP award
From the very start, Rivera coach Salvador Garcia saw Abraham “A.B.” Troncoso as a soccer player he could count on.
“The first time he came to Rivera (as a freshman), we knew right away A.B. was a quality player and that he was capable of doing…
All-Metro newcomer Valdez stars before injury
A promising soccer season was cut short when Los Fresnos’ Jonathan Valdez, a sophomore forward, suffered an injury that required his jaw to be wired shut, forcing him to miss his team’s final four games.
Without Valdez, and also without a couple…
Lopez’s Escandon earns All-Metro coaching honor
Making it to the Region IV-5A final in back-to-back years is a credit to the resiliency of the Lopez Lobos, and even more specifically to Amadeo Escandon, The Brownsville Herald’s All-Metro boys soccer coach of the year.
Even though only three…
Llevan el box en la sangre
Los primos Raúl y Oscar Tovar vienen de una familia que ha hecho del boxeo toda una tradición.
“El boxeo corre en nuestra sangre”, dijo Oscar, de 20 años, quien es de Alton y tiene una marca de cuatro victorias (dos por nocaut) con una…
Hanna girls soccer coach Prado to take over boys team
There’s a changing of the guard in the boys soccer program at Hanna.
Reyes Prado is taking over for veteran coach Juan de Dios Garcia, who is retiring at the end of the school year. Garcia has guided the Golden Eagles since UIL soccer started in…
Tovar cousins to fight on same card
Cousins Raul and Oscar Tovar come from a boxing family.
“Boxing runs in our blood,” said Oscar (4-1, two knockouts), a 20-year-old super featherweight from Alton. “We have an uncle who fought out of Mexico a while back.”
Added Raul (9-5-1,…
All-Valley Girls Soccer: Compean carries Lady Cardinals to new heights
The most gifted soccer players are the ones who raise the level of their team’s play and bring it greater success.
Harlingen High’s April Compean, a junior forward, is such a player. She is the Valley Freedom Newspapers 2012 All-Valley Girls…
Hanna boys soccer coach honored by TASCO
Juan de Dios Garcia, Hanna’s veteran boys soccer coach, has received numerous honors throughout his career as a coach and player.
One of the most rewarding of those honors, because it comes from his peers, is his recent selection to the Texas…
All-Metro MVP Loyde, defensive MVP Valdez carried co-champion Hanna
Stephanie “Fanny” Loyde and Amanda Valdez were a big part of the Hanna girls’ success this soccer season.
Loyde, a junior forward, and Valdez, a senior sweeper, helped the Lady Golden Eagles return to the state playoffs for the first time since…