Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Less than three months before the start of the high school football season the Bridge City Cardinals had their athletic director and head football coach resign. Cody McGuire’s resignation was accepted by Bridge City School Superintendent Dr. Mike Kelly the last week of May. Filling the vacancy of head football coach will be longtime Bridge City High School coach and the head baseball coach Chad Landry on an interim basis. Dr. Kelly will serve as the interim athletic d...
The second annual "500 For Life" motorcycle rally was held Saturday, May 20, for local motorcycle enthusiasts. Over fifty motorcyclists rode together from Beaumont to Orange to promote safety and to make drivers of other vehicles more aware of motorcycles on the road. The rally started at the Cowboy Harley Davidson dealership on Interstate 10 in Beaumont escorted by motorcycle riding police officers. All together 55 motorcycles arrived at the Columbanus Motor Sports center in...
Another successful baseball season came to an end for the Orangefield Bobcats on Saturday, May 20. The Bobcats lost their second game to the Central Heights Blue Devils and were eliminated from the Class 3A state baseball playoffs. Orangefield won the district championship going undefeated in fourteen games. The Bobcats advanced to the third round of the post season with impressive series sweeps over Pollok Central and Wallis Brazos in the bi-district and area rounds of the...
The Orangefield School Trustees introduced the new high school boys basketball coach during their meeting on Monday, May 22, at the high school. Bryan Whitmire was approved to take the position as the boys basketball coach by the school board earlier in May. Whitmire comes to Orangefield from The Woodlands High School in Class 6A. He was an assistant coach on the varsity last season and the head coach of the freshman team which won the district championship with a 25-2...
The Orangefield Lady Bobcats had their outstanding season come to an end Friday, May 19, in Navasota. The Lady Bobcats lost in a one game playoff with the Class 3A top ranked Grandview Lady Zebras to be eliminated from the state UIL playoffs after reaching the fourth round of the post season for the first time in the school's softball history. Orangefield played even with Grandview for four innings during a scoreless tie. The Lady Zebras got two late homeruns in the fifth and...
The Orangefield Bobcats continued to roll in the post season and moved into the third round of the Class 3A state baseball playoffs. The Bobcats swept Wallis Brazos in two games outscoring the Cougars 27-0 in the series. The series was played at Crosby a neutral site for the two teams. The first game was Thursday, May 11, which Orangefield won 10-0 giving Coach Tim Erickson his 200th career win. Pitcher Jason Bodin was masterful in the game. Bodin got credit for a complete...
Orangefield High School held its Athletic Banquet on Monday, May 15. Harleigh Rawls was the Girl Athlete of the Year and Cameron Dischler was the Boy Athlete of the Year. The following student athletes were also honored during the ceremony. Boys Cross Country Bobcat Heart Award Leyton Loft Newcomer of the Year Carson Worthy Most Valuable Player Tanner Sullivan Girls Cross Country Bobcat Heart Award Kadee English Newcomer of the Year Aubree Beck Most Valuable Player Kendall...
May is National Motorcycle Awareness Month. Local motorcyclists from Orange and Jefferson Counties will be staging a rally this month to help drive home how important motorcycle safety is and to help make motorists more aware of motorcycles on the roadways. The second annual '500 For Life' event will be held on Saturday, May 20. The motorcycle rally will start at the Cowboy Harley Davidson dealership in Beaumont and conclude at the Columbanus Motor Sports center in Orange. Las...
Pitching was the name of the game during the three game series in the area round of the state Class 4A baseball playoffs between the Bridge City Cardinals and the Lufkin Hudson Hornets. All three games were shutouts with the Hornets winning games one and three to take the playoff two games to one over the Cardinals with the complete series held in Jasper. The deciding game was played on Saturday, May 13. Bridge City was the designated home team for game three, and the home...
The Little Cypress Mauriceville Lady Bears battled the defending state champion Liberty Lady Panthers in the third round of the Class 4A softball playoffs. The Lady Bears lost two games and were eliminated from the post season. Liberty came into the best of three series with LCM having won their four previous playoff games by a lopsided combined score of 51-2. Little Cypress Mauriceville won four of five playoff games in order to advance to the third round. The first game of...
The young Orangefield Lady Bobcats have advanced to the fourth round of the Class 3A state softball playoffs. Orangefield started four freshmen and a sophomore as it swept the Pollok Central Lady Dogs in two games to move on in the post season. The two games were played in Jasper a neutral site. The Lady Bobcats pulled out an exciting win in the opener 7-6 in walk-off fashion. Central showed why it was undefeated in its district scoring four runs in the first inning of the...
Orangefield High School has its first student athlete in the school's history to sign a college scholarship to play golf at the next level. Xander Park signed with Jacksonville College on Monday, May 15, to play golf while attending the school in Jacksonville, Texas, beginning in the fall. Orangefield golf coach Todd Trawhon is proud of Xander and his brother Lincoln. "We knew having Xander and his younger brother Lincoln in our program it was really going to help us out....
Little Cypress Mauriceville has advanced to the third round of the Class 4A state softball playoffs. The Lady Bears swept two games from the Carthage Lady Dawgs over the weekend in the area round. Friday's game was played in Lufkin. The Lady Bears won 18-4 in a game shortened to six innings because of the 10-run rule. All nine starters for LCM recorded a hit in the blowout. Jillian Brown went four for four with three runs driven in. Ansley Moore had three hits and three rbis....
Orangefield won its third straight playoff game without a loss and advanced to the third round of the state softball playoffs in Class 3A. The Lady Bobcats completed their sweep of the Coldspring Lady Trojans at Cleveland's Hal McClelland Sports Complex softball field on Friday. After winning a one game playoff with Central Heights in bi-district Orangefield opened its best of three area round playoff with Coldspring in Anahuac on Thursday. The Lady Bobcats defeated the Lady...
Orangefield opened its run in the post season with two impressive wins over the Pollok Central Bulldogs. The Bobcats won both games by scores of 13-3 at the Hal McClelland Sports Complex in Cleveland. The first game on Friday night saw the Bulldogs actually jump out to the initial lead. Three base hits resulted in Central taking a 1-0 lead after the top of the first inning. Leadoff batter Kane Smith singled to spark a seven-run outburst for the Bobcats in the bottom half of...
The Bridge City Cardinals have advanced to the second round of the state baseball playoffs in Class 4A. The Cardinals made short work of the Splendora Wildcats sweeping them in two games. The best of three series was played at a neutral site in Anahuac which has an all synthetic baseball field. Bridge City was the second seed from District 19-4A and Splendora was the third seed in District 20-4A. The first game was played on Friday evening. The Cardinals had solid hitting and...
An outstanding student athlete at Little Cypress Mauriceville will be changing colors from green to blue beginning later this year. Senior Dean Reynolds signed his scholarship on Wednesday, May 3, to attend and play baseball at Columbia University in the city of New York. Reynolds is a four-year letterman in baseball at Little Cypress Mauriceville. As a junior Dean was the starting tight end and punter on the varsity football team and became the quarterback for the Bears...
Little Cypress Mauriceville advanced to the next round of the Class 4A state softball playoffs on Monday. The Lady Bears won the deciding third game 9-2 in their bi-district series with the Hardin Jefferson Lady Hawks. It was a joint pitching effort that got the important victory for LCM. Ella Stephenson started in the circle going four and two third innings with eight strikeouts allowing two runs only one of which was earned. Tessa Erickson pitched the final two and a third i...
A replica of the most famous ship in the history of the United States Navy is now located in Orange. The three-foot long ship model of the USS Constitution was built by long-time Orange resident Dean Sechler and was donated to the Orange Public Library by his daughter Joan Tharp on Friday, April 28. Sechler moved to Orange from Pennsylvania and worked on Chemical Row for decades. In his spare time Dean built close to thirty ship models, all in great detail. Sechler passed...
The Orangefield Lady Bobcats have advanced to the Class 3A Area Round of the state softball playoffs. Orangefield defeated the Central Heights Blue Devils out of Nacogdoches 5-0 on Saturday night, April 29, in Jasper. It was the twenty-third win for the Lady Bobcats. Orangefield pitcher Abigail Curphey threw her fifth shutout of the season. Curphey allowed only two hits and struck out seven Blue Devils in the complete game victory. The Lady Bobcats rapped out ten hits in the...
The Orangefield Bobcats finished their regular season as the undefeated champions of District 22-3A. It is the Bobcats' third straight district championship in baseball. The final game in district was played Tuesday, April 25, at Orangefield's Paul Cormier Field against the Anahuac Panthers. The Bobcats won 12-4 for their fourteenth victory without a loss in district play and improved their record to 23-3 on the season. Anahuac took the early advantage before Orangefield ralli...
The Bridge City Cardinals closed their regular season on a five-game winning streak and finished in second place in District 19-4A to make the post season. The Cardinals were 9-3 one game behind the district champion Vidor Pirates. The last week of the regular season had two games between Bridge City and the West Orange Stark Mustangs. The Cardinals won both games. On Tuesday the Cardinals scored six runs in the fifth inning to beat the Mustangs 8-1 at Ronnie Anderson Park....
Little Cypress Mauriceville won this season's District 19-4A softball championship. The Lady Bears completed their district schedule with a record of 11-1 finishing one game ahead of their cross-county rivals the Bridge City Lady Cardinals. A discouraging report came from doctors early last week concerning Bridge City's number one pitcher Carson Fall. The doctors indicated Fall has an injury to her right arm which is her pitching arm and the injury will keep Carson from throwi...
The Orangefield Lady Bobcats won the softball district championship on Tuesday. The Lady Bobcats defeated the Hardin Lady Hornets in three innings 15-0 at Paul Cormier Field to clinch first place in District 22-3A. Orangefield Coach Rebekah Ragsdale was excited for her Lady Bobcats to be district champions. "It's awesome! Considering we missed the playoffs a year ago and then to be able to turn it around and do this it's something super special especially with the group that w...
Two more Bridge City seniors have signed scholarships to play their sports at the college level. Kaydence Corkran will play softball at John Melvin University and Amaris Larkin is going to Lamar University to do track and field. Corkran signed on Wednesday at the Bridge City High School gymnasium to attend John Melvin University in Crowley, Louisiana. Kaydence earned three letters for playing softball for the Lady Cardinals primarily as a pitcher. Bridge City softball coach...
