By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
PHARR, Texas | They came to play. It's an adage known to anyone even semi-interested in sports. That sideline saying came to life here Friday afternoon, when the unranked and underdog Brownsville Veterans Memorial High Chargers manhandled #7-ranked (in the state) Pharr-San-Juan-Alamo North, 45-28.
And it was a real "storm" (QB Storm Montoya) leading the upset, not some nebbish local blogger promising Stormy Mondays and then sucking at it.
No, sir. These Chargers are hellbent on avenging last season, when PSJA North knocked them out of the same high school playoffs 35-15 on their homefield in Brownsville.
The afternoon tiff began as if to eventually become a whatever-team-scores-last-wins contest.
But there was QB Montoya roiling the script that had PSJA favored by two touchdowns, his running and passing (along with a stout-when-it-had-to-be-stout defense) as the team rolled to eventual victory of the sort it (and the whole hometown) had never experienced. Shades of Brownsville High vs. Seguin that fateful night in the late 1960s.
No, this one was for the team and the community.
PSJA North had arrived undefeated to its homefield game, the stands packed to the rafters. They were favored and they had mowed down 12 opponents along the way. Twelve in a row, Baby. No one here gets out unbruised, unhurt, unbridled.
But the Chargers have been a special team two years running, this one seeming to want to finish the job last year's graduating squad started.
Winning one is winning two,.,and then three, four, is what the coaches sing in the dressing room. The season is long, but losing makes it feel longer. The Chargers lost two games this year. They've set that aside and moved on, moved on to win - which makes a huge difference and separates them from the many, many, many give-ups we have seen in the RGV over the years.
Corpus Christi Miller is next.
Don't bet against another storm...
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The valley is hungry for a winner. We need "state"!
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