Apr 06 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel High track and field team has spent all season working to get a complete team into competition at the same meet, and they may finally be able to do it for this week’s district meet. The Tarpons are competing this weekend at the District 32-4A …
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Mar 30 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The latest re-alignment project by the University Interscholastic League (UIL) has caused a major shift for the 2018 Port Isabel football program schedule. There will be only three other teams in Port Isabel’s district for the next two seasons. District opponents for the Tarpons will be Raymondville, Rio …
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Mar 30 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Cesar Aguilera and Shawn Shrewsbury both finished 8th in their races at Weslaco’s Meet of Champs last Saturday. In Saturday’s final of the 100-meter dash Aguilera was timed at 11.68 seconds and, while 8th place was last in this race, Aguilera was only 0.78 seconds behind McAllen’s Gunnar …
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Mar 30 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Lady Tarpon hurdler Ava Gomez took 6th place in the 300-meter hurdles at the Meet of Champs last Saturday in Weslaco. Gomez finished the 300 hurdles in the time of 49.96 seconds. The five runners ahead of her were all from Class 5A and 6A schools. Gold medalist …
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Mar 23 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS In just her second time competing at the state level, Port Isabel powerlifter Julianna Barrera came away with a bronze medal. Competing in the 165-pound weight class Barrera got the third place finish with a total lift of 960 pounds. The 2018 Texas Women’s Powerlifting Association State Meet …
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Mar 23 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The athletes of Port Isabel High’s Lady Tarpons track and field team set numerous personal records at last week’s UTRGV Invitational meet at Edinburg. One more meet remains on the schedule before the District 32-4A meet in La Feria next month. “We probably won’t have a complete team …
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Mar 23 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpon track and field team will compete at this weekend’s two-day Meet of Champs at La Feria and Weslaco. The preliminaries of most events will be held at several different sites across the Rio Grande Valley. Port Isabel will go to La Feria for Friday’s …
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Mar 16 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Julianna Barrera will be on her way to the state powerlifting meet in Waco by the time most Press readers see this article, but she is not the only Port Isabel High lifter to qualify for state competition. Dagan Wise also qualified for the state meet with his …
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Mar 16 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Port Isabel High track man Shawn Shrewsbury struck gold at last week’s Jim Hudson Relays in La Feria. He won the 400-meter dash with a personal record time of 52.34 seconds. The 400-meters is a one-lap sprint race and Shrewsbury had to go all out the entire distance …
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Mar 16 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Port Isabel Lady Tarpon Marlyn Cesenes took second place in the pole vault for the second week in a row at last Saturday’s Jim Hudson Relays at La Feria. She cleared 8-feet, 6-inches, also for the second consecutive week. “She came out 8-06 again, so we’re looking to …
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