Girls Softball

Pitching dominates softball All-Star game at La Joya

Pedro Perez IV

LA JOYA — With a stellar pitching performance from three pitchers the East was able to hold off the West for a 3-1 victory in the fifth annual Rio Grande Valley Fastpitch Softball Showcase. Edcouch-Elsa coach Jose Palacios was the East’s... Full story

Softball All-District Teams

DISTRICT 30-5A Most Valuable Player Clarisa Navarro, La Joya Newcomer of the Year Priscilla Mendez, Donna Co-Coach of the Year Carlos Rodriguez, La Joya Nicole Smedley, Rio Grande City First Team Pitcher— Dru Marmolejo, Sharyland; Jour... Full story

State Softball Roundup

CLASS 5A Complete game helps Pearland shut out Austin Bowie AUSTIN — Jessica Bowden threw a complete game shutout as top-ranked Pearland defeated upset-minded Austin Bowie 4-0 for the Class 5A championship. Bowden scattered five hits and str... Full story

Austin Bowie completes sweep of Lady Hawks in Alice

John Cannon

South put up one heck of a fight, but fell short to Austin Bowie 11-2 in Game 2 of their Class 5A regional semifinal at Alice High School on Saturday. Bowie now faces San Antonio Taft in the regional finals next week.ALICE — Even though their s... Full story

Lyford’s hopes of making Elite Eight dashed by LaGrange

Armando Garza

SINTON — The LaGrange Lady Leopards packed plenty of bats Saturday. Now, they’ll pack their bags for the Elite Eight. Powered by a 15-hit attack, LaGrange (32-5) shut out Lyford 9-0 in Game 2 and earned a sweep in their regional semifin... Full story

5.22 Softball Report

Regional Semifinals Class 5A Best-of-three series HARLINGEN SOUTH vs. AUSTIN BOWIE Game 1: Austin Bowie 11, Harlingen South 0 Game 2: Austin Bowie 11, Harlingen South 2, Bowie wins series EDINBURG HIGH (29-4) vs. SAN ANTONIO TAFT (23-9) Game... Full story

S.A. Taft pulls away from Edinburg High to win Game 2

RGVSports.com

LAREDO — San Antonio Taft broke open a tight Game 2 against Edinburg High with a five-run sixth inning to clinch their best-of-3 series with a 7-0 victory Saturday at Laredo’s Student Activities Center. Taft won Game 1 on Friday, 5-2, in ... Full story

S.A. Taft slips by Edinburg High

LAREDO — San Antonio Taft erupted for four runs in the second inning and held off Edinburg High 5-2 to take Game 1 of their best-of-three Class 5A regional semifinal series Friday at the Laredo Student Activities Center. Despite the loss,... Full story

Final three Valley softball teams are set for Sweet 16

Armando Garza

It’s never been done before. But three Valley softball teams are going to try their hardest to remove that statement from the books. Harlingen South, Edinburg and Lyford each start a best-of-three regional semifinal series tonight in hopes of ... Full story

Lady Bobcats carrying hot sticks into regional semis

Ramiro Paez

EDINBURG — Edinburg High’s impressive 19-run performance in Game 3 of last weekend’s regional quarterfinal against San Benito was enough to prove just how efficient the Lady Bobcats’ bats have been as of late. Facing an elimi... Full story

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