Category: Sports

Tarpon Time Week 3

By JOE HAMBY Special to the PRESS Tarpons Run Past the Hidalgo Pirates 34-7 last Friday, Sept. 9.   Congratulations to Coach Stumbaugh, Tarpon head football coach since 2001.  Friday’s victory is win number 118 of his career at Port Isabel. Coach Stumbaugh has lost only 62 games during the 16 years at Port Isabel and …

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Tarpons Win Again, Capture Pirates 37-6

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpons won their third straight game to start the season as they blew the Hidalgo Pirates out of the water, 37-6, last Friday night at Tarpon Stadium. The Tarpons got two touchdowns each from quarterback Cesar Aguilera and running back Travis Camacho and the team …

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O-line key to running game

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Football fans never fail to notice the guys who have the ball.  They always see the player who runs 80 yards for the touchdown, throws the ball 70 yards in the air for a score, or catches a fourth-down pass in the end zone for the winning points. …

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Lady Tarpons fall at home to Hidalgo

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel High Lady Tarpons volleyball team lost at home to Hidalgo Tuesday night, three sets to one.  It was their third straight loss to start the district season. The Hidalgo Lady Pirates won by the scores of 25-13, 23-25, 25-10, 25-10. Port Isabel fell behind 16-5 …

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Tarpons Defeat Tomball Christian, 34-7

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Port Isabel defeated Tomball Christian Homeschool, 34-7, at Tarpon Stadium last Friday night in the second game of the season for both schools, and the home opener for the Tarpons. Port Isabel scored the first four times it had the ball in the first half and led 28-0 …

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Lady Tarpons Drop District Opener to Raymondville

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS dropped their district opening match at home Tuesday evening to the Raymondville Lady Bearkats, three sets to one. Raymondville won by the scores, 25-22, 19-25, 25-23, 25-12. The Lady Tarpons scored three straight points to take a 22-21 lead in the first set before the Lady Kats scored …

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First Year Lady Tarpons Coming Along

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS It’s a fact of life in high school sports, including volleyball: every year experienced players are lost to graduation, and every year new players come up through the system. One of the most important parts of the process, then, is to bring the new players up to speed …

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Tarpons take Lobos in overtime nail biter

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpons scored first on a 61-yard run, gave up the tying touchdown on a blocked punt, rolled the dice in overtime and won the game on a do-or-die two-point conversion try, 15-14. Very briefly, that sums up last Friday night’s football game between Port Isabel …

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Lady Tarpons Take Monte Alto in straight sets

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS With only two matches left to play before next week’s district opener, the Port Isabel Lady Tarpons volleyball team stepped up their game Tuesday night and exorcised the Lady Devils of Monte Alto in straight sets. They won 25-14, 25-20, 25-16.  They trailed only briefly, at the start …

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Tarpon Time: Tarpons Slip By Lopez Lobos in Overtime!

By JOE HAMBY Special to the PRESS The 2016 season got underway last Friday night in Brownsville’s Sams Memorial Stadium. The Port Isabel Tarpons came to town to challenge the Lopez High Lobos to 60 minutes of hard-knock football. The two teams remained focused on victory during the hard fought defensive game that went in to …

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