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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

ALICE — Maybe it won’t be that long until the Mission High Eagles are ready to appreciate what they accomplished this season. They won a district championship for the first time since 1993 and hadn’t made it past the first round of the postseason since 2002.

Late Friday night, however, all they were thinking about was how their season ended during a 12-7 loss on a muddy and chewed-up field drenched by heavy rains before and during the game.

MISSION — The Mission High Eagles’ 30-27 win over Alice last week was an important one for the school and the community. It was the Eagles’ first playoff win since 2002 and allowed their season to continue.

It by no means meant that Mission High (10-1) had reached all of its goals for the 2009 season. A bi-district championship was not what coach Mario Peña told his players to aim for. He wants them to aim for something much more, even beyond getting past Gregory-Portland in Friday’s area round game in Alice.

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Valley-Boys basketball schedule
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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.

HARLINGEN — PSJA North's win against PSJA last week meant just a little more to Bruce Bush than the other nine this season.

Just a little.

The Raiders' 21-20 win against the Bears at PSJA Stadium was also Bush's 250th career win.

Bush spent two years as head coach of the Bears from 1981-82. He said reaching this milestone against one of his many old teams was special.

Bush was 19-3 in two yeas at the San Juan school.

"I got some of my early wins with the Bears," Bush said. "I told the kids this win was symbolic and special."