Area Sports

Rattlers’ assistant coaches ready for State Final     No one ever does anything worthwhile alone. Through every step of every journey, there is usually someone, or a group of somebodies, offering directions, questioning wrong turns, or lifting you through when you think you can’t. All we do is made possible by the support of…

Rattlers’ baseball eyes State Championship     Dreams always seem fantastical until you start living them. This spring, a group of high school students from Mission, Texas, has shown an entire community that the impossible seems crazy until it isn’t. A year full of scrapes and bruises, early morning bullpen sessions, after-school batting practice, off-season…

Palmview’s Manuel “Ricky” Garcia retires     Eighteen years ago, La Joya ISD and the greater La Joya community entrusted one man to lead a new era of La Joya Baseball when Palmview High School opened. That man, a former college baseball player and longtime assistant coach at La Joya High, had no qualms with…

Rattlers advance to Final Four     There are times when a dream becomes a reality and reality becomes a dream. For the Sharyland Rattlers’ baseball team this is one of those times as they’ve accomplished what no other baseball team in Sharyland High School history has ever accomplished, securing one of the highly coveted…

Rattlers make Regional Finals     Surviving is what humans do best—struggling against violent circumstances, resisting the diabolical urge to quit, experiencing the catharsis attached to success, all of it essential to our being. Now consider that, out of the seventy-plus high schools across the RGV, only two remain in the UIL State Baseball playoffs.…

Sharyland baseball among Elite 8     The Sharyland Rattlers’ baseball team has advanced to the 5A Region IV Final of the UIL State Playoffs for the first time since 2019. That was the year the Rattlers and their sister school’s team, the Pioneer Diamondbacks, both advanced to the Elite 8 and faced off against…

How well do you know local sports?   Just as the opening of non-district football and volleyball games mark the beginning of high school sports every school year here in the Valley, and across the state, the final softball and baseball playoff games mark the end. And with the baseball playoffs heading into the third…

Rattlers, Lobos, and Coyotes move onto Regional Semifinals   Winning is an alienating accomplishment. A collective effort? Yes. But it isolates you, sets you apart from those who haven’t and those who can’t—winning marks the legacy of competitors with fearless souls and voracious might. Three Big 7 teams remain in the UIL State baseball playoffs,…

Mission Collegiate High golfer competes at State         Her name is Amabely “Bely” Rodriguez and she is one of the top girls’ high school golfers in the state of Texas. The fact that she was the only 5A or 6A golfer from the Valley to qualify for the UIL’s 2025-2026 Girls Golf…