A.D. Ibarra
-South Texas

    The Eagle Pass Eagles are performing well on the pitch according to Head Coach Hugo Garcia as they whalloped the Nixon Mustangs 8-0 on the 13th at the SAC.
    The Lady Eagles kept the pressure on the Nixon defense as Aliyah Torres ripped on by the goalkeeper, then 10 minutes later Mirella Hernandez broke free and scored.  Indra Casares scored to put the Eagles up 3-0 before the half.
    In the second half, it was Hernandez striking again driving into the box and driving the ball into the far corner for the 4-0.
    Monica Jimenez made her presence felt by taking the ball down the side of the pitch to find a streaking Aliyah Torres who fired from outside the box to make it 6-0.
    Julie Fortiz and Nileah Torres capped off the scoring.
    Lady eagle defenders Lucia Aguilar, vero Riojas, Mirella Hernandez and Jessica Venegas kept goalies Yulissa Jimenez and Dubelza Galvan clean notching their fifth straight shutout.
    The Lady Eagles also participated in the Corpus Christi Invitational where they defeated Weslaco East 2-0 behind goals by Casares and Hernandez where goalies Jimenez and Galvan had their sixth shutout.
    Can you say #7?  The Burnt Orange and White shut out Incarnate Word 2-0 on a defensive gem by Aguilar, Riojas, Hernandez and Venegas.  Jenny Moctezuma and Vero Riojas scored in this game.
    Then the Lady Eagles squared off with Corpus Christi King who took advantage of a good combination and an excellent pass to go up 1-nil.
    Coach Garcia said they had not been scored on in 350 minutes. King quickly scored again taking a 2-nil lead into the locker room at half time. Garcia made some adjustments at halftime moving Mirella Hernandez and Marcela Mares to mid field and Yulissa Jimenez and her defense including Irma Salazar and Lucia Aguilar shut down King with some timely defense before Casarez connected with Mares to narrow the score.
    With forty seconds left Mirella Hernandez had the equalizer to get them the draw giving them the #1 seed in the Gold Round. Check out Sunday's edition of your News Gram for the details of this and more exciting Lady Eagle soccer action!