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A.D. Ibarra
-Round Rock, TX
The Eagle Pass Eagle Cross Country Team traveled to Old Settler's PArk in Round Rock to participate in the 2012 Texas State Cross Country Meet. The three-time Region IV Champs placed 10th place amongst the elite CX teams in the State of Texas as Saul Vasquez led the way with an incredible time of 16:34 amidst an array of extremely talented runners from such vaunted programs as The Woodlands and Southlake Carroll. Hector Alvarez and Jorge Ortiz came across not even a minute behind Alvarez yet, this time they came in sparingly behind a slew of runners from other schools such as College Park, El Paso Eastwood, Lewisville Marcus, Plano West, Weslaco East and even Del Rio. Michael Espinoza, Martin Lopez and Carlos Elizondo also contributed to the big tenth place finish as the Eagles came out on top of such established programs as Houston Stark Jesuit and Houston Cypress Woods. Congratulations are in order for the entire EPHS CX Team Juan Gonzalez and his entire coaching staff on a job well done.
A.D. Ibarra
-Eagle Pass
The San Luis Cardinal Connection Inferno culminated their 2012 football season with an exciting come from behind win over the Mancha Mustangs last Saturday at legendary Rodger's Field.
The Inferno went on top early with two scoring drives engineered by QB Ruben Ramos to exceptional tight end Mario "The Red Rocket" Barrientos who made the score Inferno 14, Mustangs 0 early.
The Inferno were driving again at the end of the first quarter when QB Diego Ibarra came in to start the second with a picture-perfect option to his left where he found a streaking Alexander Reyna for the third Inferno touchdown, the extra point was good making the score 21-0.
It was here when Elias Salas, the talented scat back for the Mustangs took over scoring on a straight run to the left side for the first Mustang score, the extra point was good to make the score 21-7.
German Velasquez scored just before the half on a pass from Salas and the PAT was also good making the score Inferno 21-Mustangs 13.
In the third quarter, Salas came right back out to try to get the Mustangs the lead and he did just that with two quick scores to put the Mustangs up 26-21!
It was in the fourth quarter, down 26-21 that the Cardinal Connection came back late with an exceptional drive that culminated in a touchdown pass from Diego Ibarra to Alexander Reyna for the game winner! The PAT was good to Reyna again and the Inferno took the victory 28-26. An exceptional end to a great game and a bittersweet end to another City of Eagle Pass Parks and Recreation Department Football season.
Isaias Ramirez, Javier Cerda, Diego Ibarra and Mario Barrientos were named to the All-Star team, but only two Inferno players (Ramirez and Cerda) were selected to play in the big game on Thursday which was won by the National team of the Eagles, the Bobcats, the Nightmare, the Stallions and the Cardinals 6-0.
A.D. Ibarra
-Eagle Pass
The 2012 District 29-AAAAA season comes to a resounding close on Friday night as the Eagle Pass Eagles come off of a two week roller coaster ride after defeating the Laredo United Longhorns in spectacular fashion on one week, then dropping a heartbreaker to the Del Rio Rams another to face cross-town rivals the CC Winn Mavericks under the lights tomorrow night at the EPISD Sports Complex Football Stadium.
The Little Cowboys of the Middle Rio Grande Youth Football Association were treated to Friday night’s big game and were able to get a first hand look at the pre game warm-up along side their Eagles before facing the Del Rio Rams in front of a capacity crowd. The Little Cowboys have advanced to play in Houston on Saturday Nov. 17th representing Eagle Pass in the Pewee division. The Little Cowboys are under the direction of Rudy Chacon, Ignacio Vasquez, Freddie Salinas, Alfredo Caballero, Emilio Galvan, Jose Samaniego and Jaime Barrera.
A.D. Ibarra
-Del Rio
CC Winn Maverick CX standout Harish Garcia has qualified for the 2012 Rgion IV CX Meet which will be held in San Antonio this weekend. Garcia turned in a 15:47 and placed in the top ten finishers to qualify for the prestigious meet which will pit the best runners from here to Del Rio, Austin down to Brownsville and back where the top ten in this race will qualify to run the 2012 State CX Meet in Round Rock on November 10th. Harish has always shown a strong work ethic since his days at Memorial Junior High and always strives to better his times be it on the cross country course or during track season where he runs several of the most grueling events such as the mile and two mile races and the 4 X 1600 and maybe even the 4 X 400 races that test the endurance of big time runners like himself. Only a junior, Garcia has been working on his craft and on improving his times in order to be in the position he is in today and along with up and comers David and Daniel Garcia, Jonathan Cavazos, Gustavo Sandoval and Victor Alvarado along with other runners in Coach Luis Sanchez and Apolinar Garza's sights at the elementary and junior high levels, they hope to work hard on the off season in order to challenge Eagle Pass and Del Rio next season as a team.
Coach Juan Gonzalez, Victor Garcia, Hector Alvarez, Saul Vasquez, Martin Lopez, Jorge Ortiz, Michael Espinosa, Carlos Elizondo, Coach Francisco Vielma Bottom left to right: Karina Velez, Karen Herrera, Kimberly Reyna, Christina Lozano, Melissa Velez, Jezabelle Rodriguez, Gracie Leal Not Pictured: Coach Jose Rangel and Coach Hugo Garcia
The OLOR Raiders and the Liberty Eagles squared off for the outright championship of the 2012 City of Eagle Pass Post-Season Tournament held at legendary Chelo's Field at Fort Duncan. Coach Orly Rodriguez' charges were still stinging from the regular season finale which left the Eagles on top and were looking for some payback on this day. Raiders won the toss and elected to defer to the second half. After a solid stop on the first two downs, the Liberty Eagles connected with a sound play action touchdown pass to OJ Ruiz for 40 yds. The 2 pt conversion was no good. In the second quarter, Raider Quarterback Beto Santos scrambled in the backfield and avoided a heavy Eagle blitz and connected with a wide open Raiders Wide receiver Nicolas Montemayor for an easy 25 yard touchdown catch. Again, the 2 pt conversion was no good. That kept the score 6-6 after a hard fought 1st half which displayed plenty of resilience defensively by both teams which was led mainly by Raider Captain and Safety Lazaro Villarreal and Eagle Captain and Linebacker OJ Ruiz. In the second half, Liberty Eagles struck again with 60 yard fake handoff Touchdown run.
A.D. Ibarra
-Del Rio
The Eagle Pass Eagles captured the District 29-AAAAA Cross-Country Team Championship in Del Rio on Saturday and did what they are seen doing day in and day out on the streets of Eagle Pass, running together in the hot South Texas sun and finishing as a pack. The Eagles left the 9th ranked CX team in the state in their rear view mirrors as they collectively turned in five of the top ten places at the event and senior Saul Vasquez turned in a brilliant time of 15:19 to become the sixth individual district champ in Eagle Pass school history following in the footsteps of Juan Gonzalez (Vasquez' coach) in 1991, Jerry Cervantes in 1993, Chris Hurtado in 1995, Luis Beltran 2004 and Roland Cantú (Cervantes' nephew) in 2010 carrying on the tradition and once again establishing the Eagle CX program as one of the finest in the state. The News Gram Sports caught up to Jerry Cervantes, EP's '93 champ and he had the following to say about the program and his win which happened to be in adverse conditions on a very cold day here in Eagle Pass.
A.D. Ibarra
-Eagle Pass
The CC Winn Mavericks and the LBJ Wolfpack engaged in a defensive battle that ended up in a 6-3 victory for the visitors from Laredo after four quarters of hard-hitting football.
A.D. Ibarra
-Eagle Pass
In their final District 29-AAAAA volleyball match of the 2012 season, the Eagle Pass Lady Eagles and the CC Winn Lady Mavericks squared off at the EPISD Sports Complex Gymnasium on Tuesday night.
The playoff bound Lady Eagles came away with a 25-11, 25-17, 25-3 victory prior to the onset of Bi-District competition.
Eagle captain Aiden Garcia delivered as advertised with 16 kills, two blocks and seven digs establishing herself as a favorite for MVP honors in District 29.
Lauren McGehee also performed effectively with 9 kills, five digs and more importantly seven quality assists.
Lynced Torres continues to establish her defensive dominance by recording double digits in the thankless task of digging out opponents' kill attempts, which in this case were more often than not delivered off the hands of Lady Maverick All-District candidate Caridad Garcia with 11.
The Silver & Black were unable to mount any type of a comeback after a respectable second set loss by the score of 25-17 which showed signs of unity and teamwork exemplified earlier in the season with Alexis Padilla, Ari Ruiz and Abigail Gonzalez doing all they could to stay in the match.
Jamie Donley had 16 big assists, Karina Yebra contributed 14 points and CAmille Piña also contributed 16 points to the win.
