By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Special to the PRESS This year marks the 50th anniversary of the historic campaign of the 1961 San Benito Greyhound football team, an unforgettable squad of savvy go-getters who came a game shy of reaching the state championship game. That year, the team set the bar for generations of Greyhound football …
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Jun 30 2011
Barker pitches well in All-Star game
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Rio Grande Valley Baseball Coaches Association East-West All Start game was played last Saturday in La Joya. Recent and former Tarpon pitcher/outfielder Bobby Barker was the only Port Isabel player to be selected for the game and, as it turned out, played both positions. It was the …
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Jun 28 2011
Salinas named to All-District softball team
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Freshman pitching ace Daniela Salinas was recently named to the first team of the All District 32-3A Softball Team. The Lady Tarpons finished in second place in this year’s District 32-3A final standings and made the playoffs for the first time since 2002. In fact the team’s won-loss …
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Jun 23 2011
Barker set for East-West All-Star Game
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Bobby Barker will represent Port Isabel High in this weekend’s Rio Grande Valley Baseball Coaches Association East-West All-Star Game in La Joya. Barker has been an outstanding pitcher for the Tarpon baseball program. His record for the 2011 season was 6-1, with his only defeat coming in the …
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Jun 23 2011
Lady Tarpons make All-District Softball Teams
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Nine Lady Tarpon softball players were recently named to the All District 32-3A softball teams. Named to the All-District First Team were first baseman Alysa Horner and outfielder Michelle Hancock. The 2nd Team All-District list shows the following Lady Tarpons: catcher Marissa Hernandez, 3rd baseman Kristian Watkins, …
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Jun 21 2011
Guillot, Sanders new Hall of Famers
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Former Port Isabel Tarpon athletes Donald Guillot and Travis Sanders were inducted into the Rio Grande Valley Sports Hall of Fame last weekend in Brownsville. The induction banquet was held at Holiday Inn of Brownsville with a few hundred friends, family, and former teammates and coaches of the …
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Jun 16 2011
Tarpon Athletics: The year that was, and the year to come
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The 2010-2011 school year is at an end. The seniors have graduated and those involved in athletics have carried the school colors in competition for the last time. In academics and athletics, it was a good year. This writer sat down with Port Isabel High School (PIHS) head …
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Jun 14 2011
Former Tarps to enter Hall
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Two former Port Isabel High athletes have been elected to the Rio Grande Valley Sports Hall of Fame. Travis Sanders and Donald Guillot will be formerly inducted into the Hall this Saturday in Brownsville. Travis Sanders was a running back in the Tarpon football program in the late …
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Jun 09 2011
Might as well get started; Drum Line reports
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Marching band practice is starting earlier than usual at Port Isabel High this summer. In recent years the head director of bands, Scott Hartsfield, gave band members a few weeks off at the end of the school year. Around the first of July, then, the drum line and …
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Jun 06 2011
Indy 500 proves worthy
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS As I’ve written in these pages before, the history of the Indianapolis 500 is filled with the stories of drivers who seemingly had the race won, only to have victory snatched from them with just a few laps to go. There was Eddie Sachs who, in 1961, made …
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