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Saturday, February 23, 2013  Rio Grande City wrestler Lisa Gonzalez is the Valley's newest state champion, taking home the gold medal at 148 pounds from the UIL tournament in Austin. Minutes after winning the title, Lisa joined Action 4 Sports reporter Joe Bowling live during Action 4 News at 6pm. Lisa was one of 5 local wrestlers who came home with medals, the Valley's best ever showing in that sport.

Friday, December 28, 2012  Some terrific games marked the first day of competition in the Winter Scramble tournament, hosted by McAllen Memorial high school.

Monday, November 26, 2012  Saturday morning wasn't too early for the fish to start biting, as the 3A Tarpons took down the 5A Brownsville Veterans girls on the basketball court.

Saturday, November 24, 2012  Brownsville Veterans fought to the end, and quarterback Marco Munoz made some spectacular plays, but Del Rio came out on top of the area round playoff game at Alamo Stadium in San Antonio, ending the Chargers' first-ever varsity season.

Friday, November 23, 2012  For Brownsville Veterans to continue their astonishing inaugural varsity season and advance to the third round of the playoffs, the Chargers will have to get past Del Rio in the area round. Vets coach David Cantu talked about what that will take.

Monday, November 19, 2012  Mission Veterans outscored unbeaten Corpus Christi Flour Bluff 13-0 in the 4th quarter of their bi-district playoff game, but it was too little, too late for the Patriots, as the Hornets advance to the area round.

Thursday, November 15, 2012  Action 4 Sports is providing a LIVE AUDIO feed for the Corpus Christi Flour Bluff at Mission Veterans playoffs game.

Wednesday, November 07, 2012  Brownsville Veterans can celebrate a successful first varsity football season after a win over Brownsville Pace put the Chargers at 8-2 on the year and playoff bound.

Friday, November 02, 2012  Brownsville Veterans recorded the first volleyball playoff win in school history earlier in the week, but the Chargers postseason run came to an end at the hands of Laredo Alexander.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012  In the bi-district round of the state volleyball playoffs, Brownsville Veterans staged an amazing comeback at Morris Middle School in McAllen to down the McHi Lady Bulldogs and claim the first volleyball playoff win in school history.

Saturday, October 27, 2012  High School volleyball took on a play-off type atmosphere at Edcouch-Elsa today as they Lady Yellow Jackets took on Mission Veterans.

Saturday, October 27, 2012  The Brownsville Veterans Chargers took a huge step forward tonight.

Friday, October 26, 2012  In an impressive show of strength, the Mission Eagles ran their 2012 record to 8-0 after shutting out crosstown rival Mission Veterans.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012  Characterized as a pass-first football team all season, Mission Veterans has steadily improved their rush attack each week, culminating in last week's comeback win against Roma. But can the Patriots run on one of the Valley's top defenses in crosstown rival Mission?

Friday, October 19, 2012  Brownsville Veterans was playing for a postseason berth, but tradition-rich Harlingen was not about to let the Chargers go into the playoffs at their expense.