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At McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium, Rowe scored twice in the fourth quarter to pick up a 14-7 win against La Joya High on Friday night.
Raudel Garcia scored a rushing touchdown on fourth-and-long for Rowe, and then Raul Juarez gave the Warriors the lead on a screen pass. The game went to halftime scoreless before the Coyotes struck first in the third quarter.
“We did a good job executing when we had to on the offensive side,” coach Paul Reyes said. “Defense, they played very well the whole game. They came through with some big stops for us. That was huge for us.”
Rowe moves to 2-6 overall and 2-4 in district in Reyes’ last game as coach, while La Joya falls to 3-5, 2-3.
WESLACO HIGH 28, EDINBURG ECONOMEDES 0: At Edinburg, the Panthers shut out the Jaguars to win their fifth consecutive game. During their winning streak, Weslaco has outscored opponents by a combined score of 231-37.
WESLACO EAST 64, EDINBURG HIGH 7: At Weslaco, the Wildcats enjoyed victory for the sixth-straight week, the longest winning streak in District 31-6A. In their last six games, Weslaco East has outscored opponents by an average margin of 31 points.
The Wildcats remain unbeaten in district play at 5-0, and will face an unbeaten Weslaco High next week in a showdown for the 31-6A title.
HARLINGEN HIGH 48, BROWNSVILLE LOPEZ 0: At Harlingen, receiver Michael Allen Gonzalez had a field day, racking up 212 all-purpose yards and four touchdowns as the Cardinals easily rolled against Lopez.
“Everybody has to rise to the occasion. If your name is called, produce and Michael Allen produced for us tonight,” Harlingen coach Manny Gomez said. “We’re getting better every week and we want to finish this season off with a bang at the Bird Bowl next week.”
Harlingen (7-2, 5-1) is in the lighter part of the district schedule to end the regular season.
The Cardinals had nine total possessions on Friday night and scored on seven of them. Harlingen’s average starting field position was its own 36-yard line, which Lopez (1-7, 1-5) coach Jason Starkey considered the most daunting stat of the night.
SAN BENITO 17, HARLINGEN SOUTH 13: At San Benito, the Greyhounds, spurred by excellent defense that forced three Hawk turnovers, got a not-easy-but-we’ll-take-it win to clinch a playoff spot heading into the regular season finale.
The win puts the ‘Hounds (7-2 overall, 5-1 district) in a position to at least share the District 32-6A title with a win at Brownsville Rivera next week. However, the triumph was by no means pretty, or easy for that matter.
“Our kids did a great job of staying in the game and focused,” San Benito coach Dan Gomez said. “But we’ve got a lot of things to clean up. We’ll get to work real fast and look at what we did wrong. It’s a district win and it puts us closer to our goal, which is a district championship.
We know Rivera will be ready to play. Everybody’s getting ready to play San Benito now.”
The Hawks (3-5, 3-3) committed 14 penalties, two that wiped out touchdowns, to cool down their spirited effort to upset the ‘Hounds for a second straight season.
CLASS 5A
SHARYLAND HIGH 42, VALLEY VIEW 10: At Pharr, Manny Campos threw four touchdown passes as the Rattlers secured their eighth consecutive playoff berth.
Campos found Edgar Alanis, Seth Carter, Blake Klein and Sergio Tornero for scores as Sharyland (5-4, 3-2) won its second straight game.
“Our boys played solid all the way around,” coach Ron Adame said. “First half, we played our style of football and stopped them on defense (to take a 28-3 lead). They got in the red zone but our defense buckled down and forced them into a half goal.”
Jaylen Williams also scored on a pick-6 as the Rattlers look ahead now to Rio Grande City in their regular-season finale. Valley View dropped to 0-9 overall, 0-5 in district.
DONNA HIGH 41, DONNA NORTH 7: At Donna, the Redskins clinched at least a share of the District 32-5A championship with a rout of the Chiefs.
Donna High can win the title outright with a win next week over Edcouch-Elsa. If the Redskins lose, and Mercedes beats Brownsville Porter, Mercedes and Donna High share the title despite Donna beating Mercedes earlier this year. That is the determination by the District 32-5A executive committee’s rules.
Friday night, Edward Dougherty ran for a touchdown and threw a touchdown pass to Jonathan Sandoval. Amonte Bowen rushed for two touchdowns. Paul Guerra and Bo Barrera each had TD runs.
Donna High improved to 7-2, 6-0 in 32-5A, heading into next week’s regular season finale against the Yellowjackets. The Redskins will play the loser of next week’s Mission Veterans Memorial-Edinburg Vela matchup in the bi-district round of the playoffs.
The Chiefs dropped to 1-8, 1-5 in district. Richard Gomez scored the lone touchdown for Donna North.
BROWNSVILLE PACE 17, EDCOUCH-ELSA 14: At Elsa, Brownsville Pace recovered a fumble on its own 45-yard line and then drilled a 41-yard field goal with less than a minute left to upset the Yellowjackets’ Homecoming night.
The Yellowjackets dropped to 6-3 overall, 4-2 in district. Pace won its second game of the season, improving to 2-7, 2-4 in district.
CLASS 4A
KINGSVILLE KING 17, GRULLA 14: At Rio Grande City, the Gators fell victim to a furious rally by King, which drilled a game-winning field goal late to lift the Brahmas to the victory.
King improved to 5-4 overall, 2-1 in district. Grulla fell to 3-5, 1-2.
CLASS 3A
HEBBRONVILLE 28, MONTE ALTO 0: At Monte Alto, the Blue Devils dropped their third consecutive game.
Monte Alto (3-6, 0-3) was shut out for the third time this year against a Hebbronville team (3-6, 3-0) that has won three in a row since losing its first six games.
CLASS 2A
BEN BOLT 40, LA VILLA 30: At La Villa, the Cardinals lost their second consecutive game.
La Villa (3-6, 2-2) closes out the regular season against Santa Maria next week.