By ROY HESS | The Brownsville Herald
BROWNSVILLE — As temperatures again dropped into the 40-degree range Friday night, soccer teams with a chance to qualify for a spot in today’s quarterfinals at the Brownsville ISD boys and girls tournaments did their best on the field on the final day of pool play, bundled up as the sun set and patiently waited for point totals to be determined.
The two BISD tournaments, which include 32 teams for the girls and 28 for the boys, started Thursday and run through today at Brownsville Sports Park.
Both girls and boys tournaments featured pool play Thursday and Friday with the top two teams in each of four groups advancing to today’s Gold Division quarterfinals at 9 a.m. The third- and fourth-place teams from each of the groups qualified for today’s Silver Division quarterfinals, also this morning.
Reaching the quarterfinals for the boys in the Gold Division were McAllen High, Donna North, Donna High, La Joya Juarez-Lincoln and Brownsville schools Veterans, Hanna, Rivera and Lopez.
In today’s 9 a.m. Gold Division quarterfinals for the boys, it’s McHi vs. Donna North, Donna High vs. Brownsville Veterans, Juarez-Lincoln vs. Hanna and Rivera vs. Lopez.
In the Silver Division boys quarterfinals at 10:30 a.m., it’s Brownsville Pace vs. Los Fresnos, La Joya High vs. Mission High, Brownsville Porter vs. Edinburg High and PSJA Southwest vs. Laredo United South.
It’s the 36th annual BISD Tournament for the boys and the 19th for the girls.
Championship matches in all divisions will be played at 1:30 p.m. today at BSP.
All games are played with 20-minute halves. Any matches tied when regulation ends go directly to penalty kicks.
In today’s 9 a.m. Gold Division quarterfinals for the girls, it’s Brownsville Lopez vs. Brownsville Veterans, Brownsville Pace vs. Laredo United, Juarez-Lincoln vs. Donna High and McAllen Memorial vs. Edinburg Vela.
The Silver Division quarterfinals for the girls start at 10:30 a.m., and in those matchups, it’s Weslaco High vs. Los Fresnos, Harlingen High vs. Laredo LBJ, Brownsville Hanna vs. San Benito and La Joya High vs. Edinburg Economedes.