SAN BENITO — Hometown fans are waiting to roar as the Rio Grande Valley’s biggest scoreboard screen starts flaring purple flashes marking the Greyhounds’ touchdowns.

When Bobby Morrow Stadium opened in 2006, the scoreboard, at 74-feet-wide by 45-feet-tall, featuring a 22-foot screen, might have stood as the biggest high school video scoreboard in Texas, according to TexasBob.com’s Texas Football Stadium Database.

Now, school district officials are planning the stadium’s $1.7 million renovation featuring an $840,000 scoreboard boasting a 74-foot-wide by 34-foot-wide digital screen.

“It’s going to be very big — the biggest in the Valley,” Superintendent Fred Perez said.

In December, officials are planning to begin installing the scoreboard’s big screen, expected to be ready to light up i

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