Category: Sports
Mar 01 2012
Lady Tarpon regional qualifiers
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Mar 01 2012
Pl baseball, softball teams in action, weather cancels games
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The weather was the deciding factor in last weekend’s Port Isabel High School athletics schedule. Saturday morning came up wet and rainy, causing the cancellation of the Tarpon Relays track and field meet as well as the finals of the varsity baseball and softball tournaments. In their first-round …
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Feb 22 2012
Tarpons take on CC Miller in historic bi-district playoff
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpons played their first postseason basketball game in nine years Tuesday night at Lyford against Corpus Christi Miller. The Tarpons stayed close through most of the first half before the Buccaneers broke the game open with a 15-0 scoring run in the second quarter, eventually …
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Feb 16 2012
Tarpons fall to La Feria, eye CC Miller
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The bad news is that the Port Isabel Tarpons basketball team lost to La Feria on Tuesday night. The good news is that the loss did not end the season for the Tarps because the team had already clinched the program’s first playoff berth since 2003. Themselves also …
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Feb 13 2012
Tarpons beat Zapata, 60-47
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpons made the long road trip up the Valley to Zapata Friday night and got the win against the Hawks, 60-47, in the next-to-last district game of the season. They have clinched a playoff berth and at least a second-place tie in the District 32-3A …
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Feb 06 2012
Tarps down Southwest, eye title vs. RH
Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpon varsity basketball squad started Friday night’s game on a 25-8 advantage and never looked back as they went on to defeat PSJA Southwest in convincing fashion, 79-37. Dakkota Torres led all Tarpons with 15 points, seven rebounds, and five steals. The Tarpons’ shooting got back on track …
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Feb 06 2012
PI Junior High blue team takes championship
Special to the PRESS On Thursday, the Port Isabel Junior High blue basketball team played their final game of the season at home against Rio Hondo, and won 36-30. This win capped off an undefeated district run (5-0), and secured this team their first district title. They ended the season 9-1 losing only the championship …
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Feb 06 2012
Eighth grade ‘A’ team captures district crown
Special to the PRESS The mighty eighth grade boys “A” team finished their season with an impressive 17-game winning streak dating back to their seventh grade year, when they went undefeated to capture the district title. This year has been no different as the boys opened up their season in the La Feria tournament, where …
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Feb 02 2012
Tarpons in new-look 32-3A
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Special to the PRESS Head Coach Monty Stumbaugh and company will return to the football field in 2012 to a new-look 32-3A. The Port Isabel Tarpons were one of many local schools to have been affected by this morning’s UIL realignment, which created two 3A districts in the Rio Grande Valley of …
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Feb 02 2012
Fierro heading to Alabama
By RAY QUIROGA Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS rayq@portisabelsouthpadre.com A lifetime of hard work, dedication and passion came into fruition Wednesday as Tarpon senior athletic standout Armando Fierro signed his letter of intent to attend West Alabama University this fall. The singing took place at the new Port Isabel High School Gym before a crowd of …
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