Jan 21 2021
STAFF REPORT On Tuesday, Jan. 19, the San Benito Greyhound boys’ soccer team defeated the Mercedes Tigers with a score of 6-1. The leading scorers for the ‘Hounds were Axel Rivera and Obed Diaz who both scored two goals. Juan Ortiz and Cristian Castillo each scored one goal. Ortiz’s and Castillo’s goals marked their first …
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Mar 13 2015
By PETE BANDA Staff Writer Reporter@sbnewspaper.com With the most successful regular season in school history behind them, the Rio Hondo Lady Bobcats soccer team find themselves in rewarding yet unfamiliar territory as they now start preparation for their first ever playoff birth. It was truly a dreamlike season for the young program and hopefully the start …
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Jan 28 2015
By ARMANDO GARZA Special to the NEWS SAN BENITO — In what’s become one of the more competitive soccer events in the area, the annual San Benito Dog Pound tournament on Jan. 23-24 once again did not disappoint. Games were played at three sites, including Bobby Morrow Stadium, San Benito High School and Old Greyhound …
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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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Mar 29 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The San Benito Greyhound varsity soccer team will try to continue its historic run when it travels to Brownsville on Saturday, March 30, for a bi-district clash against the 32-5A second place Rivera Raiders. While the matchup, which is set for 7:30 p.m., is attracting a large amount …
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Mar 26 2013
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com There’s a first time for everything. The San Benito Greyhound varsity soccer team has scored 28 points this season en route to its first playoff appearance. Playing in District 31-5A, the Greyhounds clinched a playoff berth Tuesday, March 19, after dispatching PSJA by a score of 2-0, thanks to …
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Mar 26 2013
Special to the NEWS The San Benito Lady ’Hounds soccer team is back in the playoffs, but it wasn’t easy getting there. After a solid start in a new district—31-5A—the club was beset with injuries over the second part of the campaign and it took a gritty effort to qualify out of one of the …
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Special to the PRESS Last Thursday, Sept. 23, several members of the local Port Isabel Rotary Club gathered to complete an important local community project they began several months ago. Using matching Rotary grant monies and club funds raised locally, they purchased 10 new benches, placing them throughout Port Isabel and Laguna Heights. Thursday, the … Continue reading [...]
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The 10th annual Motorcycle Cannonball Run ended on South Padre Island this past weekend, with nearly a hundred riders cruising their 100-year-old machines through the Queen Isabella Causeway to victory. Starting in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, on the Canadian border, 88 riders, some dressed in early 1900s garb, departed to Texas … Continue reading [...]
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The City of Port Isabel is now weighing its options in responding to a Federal Aviation Administration analysis of SpaceX’s orbital launch. The FAA released its highly anticipated draft environmental review of SpaceX’s planned orbital launches two weeks ago, saying the launches would have little impact on Boca Chica and the … Continue reading [...]
Photos and words by Gaige Davila The PARADE sat with Will Abete as he started his shift at The Meatball Cafe, preparing to special a piña colada using fresh squeezed pineapple juice. Abete, 25, has worked at The Meatball Cafe for two months. Before, he bartended just across Padre Boulevard at Tequila Sunset. He’s lived … Continue reading [...]
Photos and words by Gaige Davila These days, Samantha Jo Finney is constantly baking. Baking clay, that is. Finney is the mind and hands behind Across The Causeway, a jewelry brand selling handmade, polymer clay earrings and necklaces. Finney started Across The Causeway in 2017, initially making anklets. During the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, … Continue reading [...]
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