Editor's Note: Keep checking back to this file on RGVSports.com throughout the weekend as playoff pairings, along with the time, date and place of the games, become finalized.

Thursday Nov. 12

BI-DISTRICT

CLASS 4A Division I

Flour Bluff 55, Mission Veterans Memorial 35

Friday Nov. 13

BI-DISTRICT

CLASS 5A Division I

Harlingen High 41, San Benito 21

Edinburg High 18, Brownsville Hanna 14

San Antonio Southwest 58, Rio Grande City 28

Valley-Boys basketball schedule
Editor’s Note: Coaches are asked to e-mail their schedules to wbaker@themonitor.com or fax them to (956) 683-4401.
Nov. 16
Non-district
Weslaco High at Mercedes, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 17
Non-district
PSJA Memorial at McAllen Memorial, 7:30 p.m.
Harlingen South at Sharyland, 7:30 p.m.
La Joya Palmview at Mission Veterans, 7:30 p.m.
Brownsville Pace at Harlingen High, 7:30 p.m.
Brownsville Lopez at PSJA High, 7:30 p.m.
Roma at PSJA North, 7:30 p.m.

Valley-Boys basketball schedule
Editor’s Note: Coaches are asked to e-mail their schedules to wbaker@themonitor.com or fax them to (956) 683-4401.
Nov. 16
Non-district
Weslaco High at Mercedes, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 17
Non-district
PSJA Memorial at McAllen Memorial, 7:30 p.m.
Harlingen South at Sharyland, 7:30 p.m.
La Joya Palmview at Mission Veterans, 7:30 p.m.
Brownsville Pace at Harlingen High, 7:30 p.m.
Brownsville Lopez at PSJA High, 7:30 p.m.
Roma at PSJA North, 7:30 p.m.

KINGSVILLE — The dried blood was still on the right cheek of Mission Veterans Memorial coach David Gilpin’s face. A few yards away, Patriots quarterback Eddie Mendiola limped off the field with what he said was a torn right hamstring.

Despite their 55-35 Class 4A, Division I bi-district loss to heavily-favored Flour Bluff, neither seemed to regret anything. And both personified what the Patriots did both Thursday night and this season, regardless of the loss.

This week is usually a time when Edcouch-Elsa is preparing for the playoffs. For the past six seasons, they’ve come into this week thinking about a long run in the playoffs to go with another District 32-4A championship.

Now, the ’Jackets are thinking about next year.

Editor's Note: The playoff pairings will be updated throughout the day Saturday. Please keeping checking back.

Friday Nov. 13

BI-DISTRICT

CLASS 5A Division II

Brownsville Pace (7-3) at PSJA North (9-1), 7:30 p.m.

BI-DISTRICT

Class 4A Division I

Alice at Mission High, 7:30 p.m.

Mission Veterans Memorial vs. Flour Bluff, at Texas A&M-Kingsville, 7:30 p.m.

CLASS 4A Division II

Calallen at Weslaco East, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 14

WESLACO – The first quarter of No. 10 Weslaco East’s 38-13 win Thursday over Mission Veterans Memorial showed why the Wildcats were once 7-0. They needed 19 plays and 9:31 to go 76 yards on their opening possession, capping off the drive with a 2-yard Bryan Guzman score to take an early 7-0 lead.

After the Patriots couldn’t handle the ensuing kickoff, Weslaco East recovered at the Patriots’ 5. The Wildcats needed three plays before Addison Einhorn score from 4 yards gave East a 14-0 lead with 2:22 left in the first.

The flips are done. The maneuvering for home-field advantage the bi-district round is finished. And there’s still one week left in the regular season.

Mission High, which can clinch the district title outright with a win at Valley View, will play host to Alice next Friday night as 32-4A’s top seed in Division I. The Eagles having the home-field advantage was pre-determined because the two teams faced off in last year’s bi-district round at Alice, sending this year’s game to Tom Landry Stadium.

MISSION — After his team’s 31-14 win over Roma on Thursday night at Tom Landry Stadium, Mission Veterans Memorial coach David Gilpin said he thought about telling his kids to stop celebrating so much and act like they’d done what they just did. Gilpin, though, realized that he and his kids hadn’t ever clinched a playoff spot. Because, for only the second time in the school’s history, the Patriots are heading to the playoffs.

ELSA — It was a somber moment as the players walked off the field Friday night.

What seemed to be the unthinkable for Edcouch-Elsa’s proud football program occurred.

The Yellowjackets, facing a must-win situation to close out the season, saw their chances of a playoff berth collapse as Mission Veterans Memorial defeated E-E 12-0 in a key District 32-4A game.

 “We’ve had good years, and you’re going to have years like that,” Edcouch-Elsa coach Joe Solis said. “The kids gave us all they had and they didn’t quit until the end and that’s all I ask for.”