Category: Sports

Boys claw past Cougars, 55-46

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpons basketball team traveled to Santa Maria last Saturday for a non-district Thanksgiving weekend game and came away with a 55-46 win. “They had a nice, little crowd for a Saturday afternoon game,” Tarpon Head Coach Mike Hazelton said Monday.  “They have a good team …

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Boys, Girls hoops win on opening night

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS It was opening night of the 2017-2018 basketball season Tuesday night and both Port Isabel High hoops squads came through with big wins. The Lady Tarpons took on the Lady Chargers of Brownsville IDEA Frontier Academy and led all the way for a 52-35 victory.  The Tarpons also …

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Season ends just shy of playoffs

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The 2017 football season came to an end for the Port Isabel Tarpons last Friday night when they came up five points short at the end of a hard-fought football game against the Bears of Corpus Christi – West Oso at Tarpon Stadium. A win in the last …

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Silver Tarpon Band ends contest season on high note

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The 2017 contest season has ended for the Port Isabel High Silver Tarpon Marching Band and, as usual, the results could hardly have been better. In three contests the band was awarded a 1st Division Superior rating all three times.  The Silver Tarpon Band competed in the Queen …

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‘Kats Take Down Tarpons

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Raymondville Bearkats defeated the Port Isabel Tarpons, 22-7, in the next-to-last district game of the season last Friday night in Raymondville. Raymondville improves to 3-1 in District 16-4A Division II play, 8-1 overall.  Port Isabel drops to 1-3 in district, 2-6 overall. The Bearkats remain tied with …

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New season, new coach for Lady Tarpon hoops

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS It’s a new season for Port Isabel High girls’ basketball and they will start the 2017-2018 season with a new coach.   Hannah Burleson has assumed the head coaching duties for Lady Tarpon hoops and scheduled scrimmages have already been played. The Press talked with Burleson this week and …

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Lady Tarpons fall in bi-district

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The season has come to an end for the Port Isabel High girls’ volleyball team.  The Lady Tarpons lost to Corpus Christi – West Oso in a first-round, bi-district playoff match, 3-1, at Riviera Tuesday night. West Oso won by the scores of 25-15, 25-18, 18-25, 25-21. “The …

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Orange Grove plays ball control

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The name of the game was ball control and the Bulldogs of Orange Grove played it well as they got past the Port Isabel Tarpons, 37-20, last Friday night at Tarpon Stadium. “They did what we were hoping they wouldn’t be able to do,” Tarpon Head Coach Jaime …

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Lady Tarpons topple Rio Hondo in regular season finale

By PETE BANDA Special to the PRESS reporter@sbnewspaper.com The Lady Bobcats dropped their final district game of the season to the Port Isabel lady Tarpons 25-16, 25-15, 17-25, 25-16. Because of the loss, Rio Hondo and Progreso tied for fourth place in 32-4A at 6-8 and will have a play-in match at 3 p.m. on Saturday at …

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Contest season on for Silver Tarpon Band

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Contest season has begun for the Port Isabel High Silver Tarpon Marching Band and the first contest took place last week in Mercedes. It was the second year for the Queen City Marching Festival and the Silver Tarpon Band did quite well in its first competitive appearance of …

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