Jul 31 2013
By ARMANDO GARZA Special to the NEWS RIO HONDO – For most high school football teams in Texas, the time is just about here. Squads that did not hold spring practices can open their preseason workouts Monday as the 2013 high school football season opens up across the state. Locally, only the Rio Hondo Bobcats …
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Jul 31 2013
By ARMANDO GARZA Special to the NEWS What started out as just a chance taken has turned into quite the summer for a local middle schooler. Brandon Michael Villarreal, a middle linebacker and running back for the Berta Cabaza Greypups, participated in two prestigious football camps over the past month: A regional Football University camp …
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Jul 26 2013
By ARMANDO GARZA Special to the NEWS For Omar Salinas, baseball is king. Ever since picking up the game at 4 years old, Salinas, 10, has been around the game in some form or fashion and he truly loves every minute of it. Case in point: His summer job. For the second consecutive year, Salinas …
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Jul 26 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com For Cejay Banuelos, playing college basketball has long been a dream. As of Thursday, her dream became reality when she signed to play basketball at Bacone University in Muskogee, Oklahoma. “It’s pretty amazing,” Banuelos said inside the San Benito High School varsity gymnasium on Thursday after inking a …
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Jul 19 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A local baseball team made up of players from San Benito, Harlingen, Lyford and Raymondville won the 2013 United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA) World Series in Dallas on Monday, July 8. The team, which fielded three players from San Benito, including George Macuaca, Mark Hernandez and Gabriel …
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Jul 17 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Tickets for the 2013 San Benito Greyhounds football season will remain on sale for current season ticket holders up until Thursday, July 18. From 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., tickets will be on sale at the main ticket booth at Bobby Morrow Stadium, located at 2025 La Palma …
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Jul 12 2013
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com The next time San Benito High School students step into Thomas Kuhn’s AP chemistry class, they’ll be in the presence of a national taekwondo gold medalist. A green belt competitor in Korean martial arts, the 65-year-old Kuhn defeated the odds by winning the gold medal in sparring and the …
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Jul 12 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A San Benito High School graduate and one of two San Benito News Sportsmen of the Year has signed to play football at the collegiate level. Jamail Garza inked a letter of intent Thursday to play football at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa, where he will be majoring …
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Jul 12 2013
Special to the NEWS RIO HONDO – When Coach Jose R. Guzman came to Rio Hondo 15 years ago, the Bobcats varsity boys’ team had gone through four coaches, each staying one year. Tradition was only a word then. Now after 15 seasons as the Rio Hondo High School Head Basketball Coach, Guzman has led …
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Jul 10 2013
By ARMANDO GARZA Special to the NEWS For four years, Eva Rubio scored plenty of spectacular goals wearing purple and gold. Now, she’ll have four more years to keep doing it—in purple and gold. Rubio, a 2013 San Benito High School graduate, signed a letter of intent Tuesday to play soccer at the next level …
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