Eagles enter final stretch of football season
By Rey Sifuentes Jr.
After getting a chance to catch its breath last week, Eagle Pass High School’s varsity football team resumes its District 29-5A campaign, and push for the playoffs, by visiting Del Rio at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.
On offense and defense, the Rams can do multiple things.
“They do a lot of things offensively in order to run the ball,” Head Coach Tom Gonzalez said. “Defensively, they have some size, but actually they are very big on both sides of the ball. Their players on each side run hard, so this should be a good test for us.”
The Eagles were able to do two important things with their bye (no game) last week. One was mend. The other was begin drawing up a game plan for their long time border rival.
“Our bye week was very beneficial to do some things that we needed to,” Gonzalez said. “We got some of our boys healed up and also started looking at our game plan for our game against Del Rio.”
Minus one season ending injury, EPHS is pretty much at full strength right now.
“Right now we have pretty much everyone doing well as far as health,” Gonzalez said. “Unfortunately we have a tailback who is out for the year. But everyone else pretty much is ready to go.”
Eagle Pass is still looking to conjure up a little more synchronicity with its final two games of the season determining whether they qualify for the playoffs.
“In our eyes we need to win these next two ball games (against Del Rio and C.C. Winn),” Gonzalez said. “And the biggest thing that we need in order to win is more consistency. Defensively and offensively, we are coming along and putting more pressure on our opponents. As a team we need to be more consistent because sometimes it is one or two guys making the kind of mistakes that cost us.”
(Rey Sifuentes Jr. is a sports writer for the Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune which is located in East Texas. He is also a 1992 graduate of Eagle Pass High School. Sifuentes can be reached on Facebook and at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . You can also follow him through Twitter at @eaglesmavericks.)