By ROY HESS, Staff Writer
The field is ready but the bleachers are not.
As the second round of District 32-5A soccer action begins, Porter’s teams were scheduled to play their first varsity games on their new on-campus artificial turf field today at 5:30 p.m. for the boys and 7:30 p.m. for the girls. But since the bleachers at the new field are not quite ready, the boys-girls 32-5A doubleheader against “Battle of Southmost” rival Lopez has been moved to Brownsville Sports Park with the matches starting at the same times.
The new field was officially christened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week and sub-varsity games already have been played on it. The main concern now is seating availability for the much anticipated rivalry matchups between the Southmost neighboring schools.
Porter’s boys and girls are to play host to Pace on Friday. It will be determined later this week if those games will be played at Porter or elsewhere.
Knowing their home field would not be completed in time, the Cowboys and Cowgirls arranged to play all their first-round district matches on the road. Through the course of those games, they went 5-2 (15 points) and 4-3 (13 points), respectively.
Now the Porter teams want to play their second-round district games at home as soon as possible.
Also in 32-5A today, other boys-girls doubleheaders starting at 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to begin the second round of district have Pace at Brownsville Veterans Memorial, Mercedes at Donna High and Edcouch-Elsa at Donna North.
The second round also begins today in District 32-6A and almost all the games start at 7 p.m.
For the 32-6A boys, it’s Hanna-Rivera at Sams Memorial Stadium, Los Fresnos at San Benito and Weslaco East at Weslaco High, all at 7 p.m. In another 32-6A boys match, Harlingen High plays Harlingen South at 5:30 p.m. at Boggus Stadium.
For the 32-6A girls, it’s Rivera at Hanna, San Benito at Los Fresnos and Weslaco High at Weslaco East, all at 7 p.m. The Harlingen High-Harlingen South girls game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Boggus Stadium.