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Crowned: RGV athletes shine during Region IV-5A/6A track and feld championships.
The RGV’s best 5A and 6A track and eld athletes took their talents to Heroes Stadium in San Antonio this past weekend, each with the same goal in mind – punching their ticket to state.
By the meet’s end, the RGV’s competitors had captured 11 individual titles and one team championship, while seven other athletes secured state bids with top 2 nishes in their respective events.
HARLINGEN — Shades of purple and red filled the podium after nearly every event during Wednesday and Thursday’s Area 31/32-5A and 6A track and field championships, with McAllen High and Harlingen High’s girls track teams dominating the two-day event.
The Bulldogs and Cardinals combined for 42 total medals during the competition, each finishing as team champions in their respective classes.
La Joya’s Leo Villarreal scored a team-high 12 points and was solid under the boards as the West cruised to a 116-96 win over the East during the All-Valley high school All-star game at Bert Ogden Arena.
Hidalgo’s Lizabeth Luna scored 16 points to pace the West to a 113-71 win in the girls contest.
During this past week, the McAllen Memorial girls soccer team practiced on a grass field to prepare for Friday’s Area Round playoff soccer match against Victoria West. The weren’t sure about how tall the grass would be or if it would be patch field.
It didn’t matter if it was a goat ranch.
After the game was over, it was clear that if Memorial played in a pool filled with sharks or on the side of a steep icy mountain, the outcome would still be the same.
SAN ANTONIO — The Edinburg Vela SaberCats went toe-to-toe against a pair of state-ranked powers at the Region IV-5A tournament in San Antonio this weekend and proved they belong.
The No. 24-ranked SaberCats (36-6) first took care of business 57-46 against the No. 21 San Antonio Wagner Thunderbirds (24-12) on Friday night at Littleton Gym in the Region IV-5A semifinals, riding a strong fourth quarter to victory and clinching a spot in Saturday’s Elite 8.
Volleyball fans have seen it hundreds of times over the course of the pass four years – it doesn’t get old.
Hernandez to Torres to Garcia. Point McAllen Memorial. Sometimes, it would be Garcia to Torres to Sosa.
Point Mustangs.
A majority of the points during the past four years at McAllen Memorial had something combination of the group that was labeled the Fab Foursome since their freshmen year.
Those in attendance were treated to seeing play together one more time on the court as part of the Class 5A West team during the 21st RGV Volleyball Tip of Texas Chapter All Star Game on Sunday at McAllen High School.
Eighty-eight players, all seniors, from 65 schools across the Rio Grande Valley competed in the three matches – Sub 5A, 5A and 6A and, while the West captured all three matches, there were individual displays of terrific talent and some eye-opening surprises…
The buzz in the RGV heading into the 2023 high school football season was all about PSJA North. Fans across the area all expected the Raiders to be the last team standing in the Valley and make a historic run to the elusive fifth round.
An RGV football team is on a historic run this postseason, but it isn’t the Raiders.
The Brownsville Veterans Chargers joined elite company last week, defeating Corpus Christi Miller to become just the 16th RGV football team to advance to the state semifinals and the first since the 2003 Port Isabel Tarpons.
Now the Chargers are just one win away from becoming the fourth Valley team to reach to state title game, looking to join the 1961 Donna High Redskins and the 1962 and 1963 PSJA High Bears…
BROWNSVILLE — History made.
For the first time in two decades an RGV high school football team is headed to the state semifinals, with the Brownsville Veterans Chargers punching their ticket with a thrilling 35-28 victory over the Corpus Christi Buccaneers on Friday at Sams Memorial Stadium in Brownsville.
The victory sends the Chargers to the Class 5A DI state semifinals for the first time in program history, while also becoming the first team since the 2003 Port Isabel Tarpons to make it to the elusive round.
They’ll take on Smithson Valley in the fifth round at 7 p.m. Friday at Buccaneer Stadium in Corpus Christi…
A total of 31 RGV football teams qualified for the Texas high school football playoffs this year. After three grueling weeks of competition, only one remains.
The Brownsville Veterans Chargers are the Valley’s last team standing in this year’s playoffs, advancing to Round 4 of the postseason with a dominating victory over previously state ranked PSJA North.
The Chargers are now looking to go where only a handful of RGV teams have gone now – the state semifinals…
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