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Significant rainfall hits Eagle Pass


 

A.D. Ibarra

-Eagle Pass

 

Eagle Pass and Maverick County had some significant rainfall on Friday morning as a huge swath of clouds passed through our area at approximately 7:45 A.M. causing flooding in some areas and the re-location of the Region IV Semi Final matchup between the SA Johnson Jaguars and the Eagle Pass Eagles which was moved to Alice.

"Trailing thunderstorms over San Antonio can bring a quick 1-4 inches of rain and flash flooding this afternoon," AccuWeather Expert Senior Meteorologist Henry Margusity said.

In general, torrential downpours appear to be the biggest concern with the storms that erupted across west-central and southern Texas through Friday evening. 

According to Jose Davila of the Maverick County Water Control and Improvement District, the Head Gates had 1 1/2" of rain, Quemado had 2", Eagle Pass North had 2", Eagle Pass South had 2" and El Indio had 2" as of 2:00 P.M. on Friday.

Eagle Pass experienced power failures throughout the city and flooding in low lying areas. Several accidents were reported throughout the downpour and police, sheriff and emergency crews were kept busy as the much needed rain hit Eagle Pass.

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UIL Responds to Sharyland vs EP controversy

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

 
 
 
 

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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