Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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A big fourth quarter rally helped Bridge City win the Bayou Bowl in Week 1. The Cardinals will try to make it two wins in a row when they play their first road game of the season on Friday. Bridge City trailed Orangefield 9-6 after three quarters in the Bayou Bowl. The Cardinals scored three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to win the game 26-9 and gain possession of the Buzzie Gunn Trophy. Bridge City Head Coach Chad Landry said he had never even held the trophy until after F...
Week 1 did not start well for West Orange-Stark, but in the end the Mustangs won on the road. This week the Mustangs return home to play their crosstown rival in the Orange Bowl. Nederland is always a tough place to play and that was true last Friday for the Mustangs who trailed the Bulldogs at halftime. Adjustments were made and West Orange-Stark completed the come from behind game with a 40-34 win. Coach Hiawatha Hickman summarized the comeback victory for the Mustangs....
For three quarters the Orangefield Bobcats were leading their opening game of the season, but a decisive fourth quarter resulted in a loss. This week the Bobcats play a very talented private school out of the greater Houston area in Orangefield. The Bobcats led the Bayou Bowl against their big Orange County rival the Bridge City Cardinals 9-6 going into the fourth quarter. Bridge City scored 20 unanswered points in the final period to hand Orangefield their first loss in the...
It was an impressive Week 1 for Little Cypress Mauriceville with a win to start the season. This week would be even bigger for the Bears if they can come home with a victory in the annual Orange Bowl. The season opened at Sour Lake for LCM against the Hardin-Jefferson Hawks. The Bears rolled to a 42-7 victory in the game. Head Coach Eric Peevey said Little Cypress Mauriceville actually started off a little slow in the first quarter. "With the number of young players we have I...
This is the third year at Little Cypress Mauriceville for Head Coach Eric Peevey to guide the football team. The Bears are young but hopeful for their third straight trip to the post season and a possible run in the playoffs. Little Cypress Mauriceville split its two preseason scrimmages in August. The Bears outscored the Orangefield Bobcats in the opening scrimmage and lost 20-14 to the big and physical Port Neches-Groves Indians who played in the Class 5A Division II...
Last football season is one Bridge City would like to forget. The Cardinals are looking to match their lone win of last year in Week 1 of this season. The final preparations for the regular season were the two scrimmages that Bridge City played. The Cardinals faced the Vidor Pirates and the Woodville Eagles in good scrimmages that fortunately left Bridge City with no major injuries getting set for the first game of the regular season. The Cardinals' new Head Coach Chad Landry...
West Orange-Stark is looking to rebound from a disappointing rare losing season last year. The Mustangs made the post season but were eliminated in the first round of the state playoffs to finish the year with an overall 5-6 record. The Mustangs performed well in their two scrimmages earlier this month. They scored four times while the WOS defense shut out Woodville in the first scrimmage and then rallied after a quick score by Vidor to beat the Pirates 14-7 in the final...
Summer workouts have concluded and scrimmages have been played leading to this Week 1 of the Texas high school football season. The Orangefield Bobcats open their season against the Bridge City Cardinals on Friday night. Orangefield faced two teams from higher classifications in its scrimmages. First was the Little Cypress Mauriceville Bears from Class 4A Division I followed last week with the final scrimmage against the Silsbee Tigers a top team in Class 4A Division II in...
The district schedule for the Bridge City Lady Cardinals volleyball team starts in less than two weeks. The Lady Cardinals open district action at Silsbee on Tuesday, September 5. Bridge City has been busy before the district begins. The Lady Cardinals played a great Baytown Sterling team on Friday, August 18, dropping a four-set match. The first set went extra time as Sterling pulled out the 29-27 win over the Lady Cardinals. Bridge City won the second set 25-20 before...
The West Orange-Stark Lady Mustangs will be playing for a new head coach this volleyball season. Aaliyah Griggs has been promoted from the assistant volleyball coach to the head position this season. Coach Griggs recapped last volleyball season for the Lady Mustangs. "We had a very young team. We only had four seniors, and last year we were actually trying to get ourselves together to improve on this year. We actually did that. We didn't have too great of a season, but this...
The queens of the volleyball courts in Orange County the last three years are the Bridge City Lady Cardinals. This season they will be attempting to win their fourth straight district title. Coach Savanah DeLuna helped her Lady Cardinals win their third straight district championship last season. "The Lady Cardinals went undefeated again and we got to the third round of the playoffs, so it was a great year last year. We've gone three rounds the past two years and they went...
Little Cypress Mauriceville has a new volleyball coach this year. Jonathan Snipes comes to LCM with lots of experience coaching at other area schools before moving here. Snipes spent ten years at Hamshire-Fannett as an assistant coach, transferred to East Chambers where he was the head track coach for seven years, and moved his family to the Little Cypress Mauriceville school district in 2021. When the volleyball coaching position became open Snipes applied for it and got the...
The high school volleyball season began this month for Orangefield. The Lady Bobcats will be playing in tournaments for the most part until the district games start in early September. Head Coach Ashlee Peevey of Orangefield said the Lady Bobcats had a successful season last year. "We played in a pretty tough district with Hardin and East Chambers which accounted for our three losses in district action. The Lady Bobcats made it to the second round of the playoffs before being...
The weather was good and the wind picked up to make the temperatures feel a little cooler during the first Friday and Saturday in August. The result was another great OCARC fishing tournament in Orange. OCARC Director John Thomas was thrilled with the 246 entrees in the 35th Annual OCARC Fishing Tournament and of those participants who weighed in a fish 73 of them were under the age of 16 years old. "The tournament had a great turn out. The weigh-in at the Riverside Pavilion...
After its strong run in the playoffs two years ago, last season was a little disappointing for Little Cypress Mauriceville in football. The Bears finished third in their competitive district and were eliminated in the first round of the state playoffs by Kilgore. Head Coach Eric Peevey of LCM called last year a positive season. "We had a winning record at 6-5 which was only the third time in school history the Bears have had back-to-back winning seasons. I think our...
There is a new head football coach in Bridge City with a familiar name. Chad Landry has been with the baseball program at Bridge City for 15 years and was named the top man for the Cardinals in football during this past off season. Landry steps into the Cardinals' head coaching position a season after they went 1-9 without a win in district. "We're kind of in a building phase coming off of last year when we were riddled with injuries. It was a tough spot for our guys, but we...
Last year was not a typical season in football for West Orange-Stark. The Mustangs made the playoffs but were eliminated in the first round of the post season by the Bellville Brahmas. West Orange-Stark was led by Hiawatha Hickman who was promoted to be the athletic director and the new head football coach with the retirement of longtime Mustang coach Cornel Thompson. The season had its ups and downs as WOS finished at 5-6 for a rare losing record by the winningest team in...
The Orangefield Bobcats are three weeks away from kicking off a new football season and are hoping for a repeat of last year for themselves. The Bobcats were district champions for the first time in over three decades and won a playoff game. Head Coach Josh Smalley was obviously pleased with his 9-3 Bobcats in 2022. "It was a good season for us. We had a running back that set the single season rushing record with 2400 yards, we had a lot of positives, and we had a couple kids...
Hopefully, the fish will be biting when the 35th annual OCARC Fishing Tournament is held the first weekend of August in Orange County. The tournament will give 32 fishermen cash prizes while also helping the clients of the OCARC. The tournament will include door prizes for participants and cash awards for those anglers catching the largest fish in twelve different types. The OCARC Fishing Tournament starts Friday, August 4, with the weigh in at 5:00 PM on Saturday, August 5,...
Local high school athletes started their summer workouts for football with their coaches on Monday, July 31. The first games for most schools during the 2023 high school football season will be the week of Friday, August 25. During the last week of July the coaches at Little Cypress Mauriceville and Orangefield held their summer football camps for their younger student athletes. Both camps had great turnouts for pre-high school aged students. The future is bright for the LCM...
The first day of preseason practices for high school football teams was Monday, July 31, in Orange County. The summer heat was intense with the temperature around one hundred degrees in the late afternoon. The Little Cypress Mauriceville Bears practiced in the morning and then again in the late afternoon into the evening. The workouts were regulated to insure the players and coaches did not get overheated and experience any trauma because of the hot weather. The head trainer...
A select team of twelve girls from the local area played during the third week of July as the GT Shockers in the FASA (Fastpitch America Softball Association) World Series held at Branson, Missouri. The GT Shockers took home the championship trophy on Saturday, July 22, rallying after dropping into the losers bracket and advancing all the way to win the tournament. The opposing teams were all elite competition of select teams from around the nation for the girls from...
The Parks brothers of last year's outstanding Orangefield High School golf team received further honors in July. Xander and Lincoln Parks were both named to the Class 3A 2023 Texas High School All-State Boys Golf Team. Xander and Lincoln were chosen as part of the ten-member select statewide golf team for Class 3A. Topping the list of ten golfers was Xander with Lincoln in the eighth position. Xander graduated from Orangefield at the end of May. Lincoln will be a junior this...
The fire that started on June 29 outside the newly constructed press box at Dan R. Hooks Stadium caused significant damage to the stadium and the neighboring West Orange-Cove Event Center. The damage will cause the event center to be closed for at least four months according to a press release from the West Orange-Cove Consolidated Independent School District (WOCCISD). The press release stated the cause of the fire has been investigated thoroughly. It was determined that the...
A special challenge chess tournament was held in Orange on Saturday, July 15, between clubs from Beaumont and Sulphur. The tournament at the First Presbyterian Church of Orange was very close and came down to the last couple of games to determine which team was the winner. The Casa de Ajedrez, Spanish for House of Chess, from Sulphur played the Beaumont Chess Club in four rounds with eight games in each round format. Eight club members represented their respective club in the...
