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Eagles square off with Weslaco East

Saturday, 31 August 2013 16:01 Published in May 2013
 A.D. Ibarra -Foster-Veteran's Memorial Stadium
 
Ty Chisum, RJ Ruiz, Jesse Sanchez and Tom Gonzalez' new look Eagle Pass Eagles kicked off the 2013 season against the Rio Grande Valley's own Weslaco East Wildcats on Friday. Weslaco cashed in on their first drive on a 12 play 75 yard drive taking 8:00 off the clock. The Eagles responded with a key interception by Deshawn Franklin to the Wildcat 17. 
Franklin surprised the Weslaco QB by jumping the route of the receiver to give the Eagles excellent field position and Ty Chisum capitalized taking ball inside the pylon to tie the game 7-7 with :47 left in the 1st quarter. The Wildcats answered back with 3:32 to play in the half, 14-7 Weslaco.
In the 2nd half the Eagles made some key adjustments and drove down the field as Jesse Sanchez dove into the endzone for the tying score.
But the Wildcats generated another time-consuming drive to pull ahead 21-14. Quarterback Darren Rivas scored again with 9:48 to go to make it 28-14. 
Chisum hit RJ Ruiz on a drive saving 12 yard strike for a big first down, then Ty used his legs to get the Eagles to the one yard line! Rich Gonzalez went in motion and took the handoff outracing the Wildcat cornerback for the Eagle TD! 28-21 Weslaco East who ate up the rest of the game clock for
the victory. News Gram Sports received word late Friday that Eric Villasenor and the CC Winn Mavericks edged the Uvalde Coyotes 21-20 by blocking the
Coyotes' final extra point to preserve the one point margin. The Eagles will be at home next week against Nixon and the Mavs will host David Charles' 
Martin Tigers on Saturday.

Stocks rise following economic data

Thursday, 29 August 2013 20:44 Published in May 2013

KEN SWEET, AP Markets Writer NEW YORK (AP) —

The stock market rose Thursday as investors weighed positive economic reports against worries about Syria. The Dow Jones industrial average added 78 points, or 0.5 percent, to 14,902 in late morning trading, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index was up 10 points, or 0.6 percent, at 1,645.

Tiny Okla. town tries to rid water supply of worms

Thursday, 29 August 2013 20:41 Published in May 2013

KRISTI EATON, Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY —

Beating the late-summer heat isn't as easy as running to the sink in one northeast Oklahoma town, as residents there are being asked not to drink tap water after red worms were found in the filtering system. The worms — ranging from a half-inch to an inch long — showed up this week in the drinking water supply in Colcord, a small town about 80 miles east of Tulsa.

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