Several girls basketball teams across the Rio Grande Valley earned marquee road wins over the weekend in non-district play, but none did so in more dominant fashion than Edinburg High.
The Bobcats traveled to face the Harlingen South Hawks on Friday and the Sharyland Pioneer Diamondbacks, two teams that should figure into the playoff races in Districts 32-6A and 31-5A, respectively.
Edinburg High rolled to a 51-point road win Friday and scored 80 or more points for the second game in a row, becoming the only boys or girls basketball team in the RGV to cross that offensive threshold twice in a game this season.
The Bobcats followed that up early Saturday morning with a victory over the Diamondbacks, one of the top 5A girls basketball squads across South Texas, in a matchup of several of the Valley’s top senior stars in Edinburg High’s A’nnika Sanez, Julissah Santa Maria and Daysha Tijerina and Sharyland Pioneer’s Audry and Carly Hornaday.
The back-to-back wins have put the Bobcats on a three-game winning streak since falling to the Harlingen High Cardinals in their season opener.
The other significant win of the weekend came out of the Valley, as the PSJA North Raiders went on the road to topple a talented Laredo Nixon team that should make a repeat appearance in the Class 6A playoffs this season.
Guard Carolina Sanchez and forward Emma Lucio combined for 31 points for the Raiders, while center Trinity Bane, one of the RGV’s elite defensive posts, added another 14 points for PSJA North in a 12-point, defensive team win.
Elsewhere across the Valley, Brownsville Hanna earned a narrow road victory over the Mercedes Tigers, while the Weslaco High Panthers downed the McAllen Memorial Mustangs in a pair of games featuring District 32-6A contenders.
The Mustangs rebounded in a big way Saturday by tallying a win at Class 6A La Joya High, while Mercedes fell to a talented McAllen Rowe Warriors squad in McAllen.
The Warriors guard-post combo of Destiny Menchaca and Yulissa Yebra has led the team to a 4-1 start, as Rowe looks to challenge a pair of reigning district champions in McAllen Memorial and Sharyland Pioneer in District 31-5A.
In District 30-5A, however, one team continues to set itself apart from the pack in early-season action.
The Rio Grande City Rattlers, one of the youngest teams in the RGV, has cruised to a 4-0 record to start the season with a quality home win over a tough Valley View Tigers team Friday and a dominant road victory over the La Joya Juarez-Lincoln Huskies on Saturday afternoon.
— Scores and stats from Friday and Saturday’s games across the Rio Grande Valley —
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