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UIL Responds to Sharyland vs EP controversy

Friday, 24 May 2013 00:03 Published in May 2013
By Rey Sifuentes, Jr.
 
 
 
In a response to the recent Sharyland vs Eagle Pass incident, Kate Y. Hector media director for UIL, offered this official statement:
 
 
 
Mr. Sifuentes, 
 
The UIL has received incident reports regarding how the officials were
selected in the Mission Sharyland vs. Eagle Pass baseball game on May 17.
At this time, the UIL has gathered information and has not found any
evidence to warrant immediate action from the League or the UIL State
Executive Committee. Eagle Pass will play its scheduled playoff series
with San Antonio Johnson this weekend.
The officials for any contest are to be agreed upon in advance by the
schools involved in that contest. However, the UIL Constitution and
Contest Rules is clear in that once a school begins a game with officials,
they have agreed to those officials.
The following rules from the UIL Constitution and Contest Rules apply in
this situation:
"Section 1204:  OFFICIALS
(a)   AGREEMENT. All officials must be satisfactory to both parties and
agreed upon in advance. However, beginning a game with an official
constitutes agreement."
 
And section 1204 (q) of the Constitution and Contest Rules:
"(q)   NO PROTESTS.  A protest based on a game or contest official¹s
decision will not be considered."
 
If an officiating error occurs, it must be corrected at that time. Once
the game is over, the outcome cannot be overturned. UIL rules do not allow
any type of protest based on an official's judgment or decision.
If you have questions or need additional information, please contact me.
 
Best, 
Kate Y. Hector
Media Coordinator
University Interscholastic League
 
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Eagles' playoff against S.A. Johnson still on

Thursday, 23 May 2013 14:08 Published in May 2013

 
 
 
 

By Rey Sifuentes Jr.

     Eagle Pass Independent School District executive director of human resources and media spokesperson Jesus Arturo Costilla confirmed on Thursday that Eagle Pass High School was still slated to face San Antonio Johnson in a best of three games Region IV semifinal playoff series which begins tomorrow (Friday).

     Costilla also rebuffed a recent report that the University Interscholastic League had given EPISD a three-option ultimatum which stems from an incident report docketed earlier this week by Mission-Sharyland’s baseball staff.

     “No, that is not correct,” Costilla said. “Everything is still under investigation, but we are still scheduled to play (against San Antonio Johnson) this weekend. So we are moving forward with that.”

     EPHS and SA. Johnson meet for game one at 7 p.m. in Eagle Pass tomorrow (Friday). Game two is in San Antonio on Saturday afternoon, with a third game following shortly if needed.

     Sharyland’s head baseball coach claims that he had an agreement with EPHS skipper Reynol Mendoza to go through UIL, and allowing the sanctioning organization to select the four umpires for their region quarterfinal one-game playoff from the San Antonio chapter.

     Mendoza, allegedly, instead went directly to the San Antonio chapter and hand-picked the game’s umpires.

     Eagle Pass and Sharyland played out the game, which the Eagles won 10-9 in what was an eight-inning slugfest.  

     In a story published in the McAllen Monitor last night (Wednesday), Sharyland Superintendent Virginia M. Richter said she was told by the University Interscholastic League - specifically by Deputy Director Dr. Jamey Harrison - that the governing body of Texas high school athletics gave Eagle Pass three options to choose from in response to the controversy surrounding the game and the ensuing incident reports filed by Sharyland.

     Eagle Pass’ options consisted of: 1. Doing nothing and getting called before the State Executive Committee. 2. Forfeiting, or 3. Re-playing the game.

 

     Costilla, however, said that was not the case. 

 

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$351,000.00 in scholarships awarded to Winn students Tuesday

Wednesday, 22 May 2013 22:00 Published in May 2013

 

 

A.D. Ibarra

-Eagle Pass

 

Tuesday, May 21st was the date set aside to pass out scholarships to the students of CC Winn High School as Principal Jesús Díaz-Wever informed The News Gram that a total of $351,000.00 in scholarships were awarded to 126 students who will be walking the stage at the Cozel Foster Veteran's Memorial Stadium on June 7th.

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank the contributors for graciously providing the funds to help our graduating seniors to continue with their higher education," stated the principal of the south side high school, "I would also like to thank our board members and central office administration for always helping our students with what ever is needed.  Thanks are in order for our parents and of course our teaching staff and counselors for assisting our students."

Lorena Alvarez is the liaison for scholarships at the school which awarded a total of 246 scholarships from 115 contributors before a crowd of approximately 500 people at the new EPISD Fine Arts Center's main stage.

All who attended agreed that the event was well-organized and went very smoothly in comparison with other years.

With this, along with the awards to the Top 5% and graduation, the most important night of the school year culminated in a sea of flashes and felicitations from friends and family members as the future leaders of our great nation were appropriately honored on a stage worthy of their accomplishments.

The Eagle Pass News Gram congratulates the recipients and their parents on their accomplishments and Godspeed in all their future academic goals.

Commencement will be on June 7th at 8:00 P.M. at Foster-Veteran's Memorial Football Stadium.

 

 

 

 

 

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