Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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For The Record- Chuck Uzzle There are very few things in this world that are as beautiful to watch as a well trained dog, no matter what breed or what task they are bred to accomplish I love watching all of them. As a wide eyed 8 year old with shotgun in hand I watched a pair of exceptional English Pointers scour the east Texas and southwest Louisiana landscape in search of quail and woodcock on a routine basis. The pointers were the pride and joy of my grandfather, Olin...
For the Record The Bridge City Cardinals will realize a dream for every high school football player Thursday – to still be practicing on Thanksgiving Day. Of course, this year that means they’ve played themselves into the third round of the post-season, something the Cardinals hadn’t done since 2005. “I was excited for the kids,” coach Dwayne DuBois said of his team’s 39-19 win over Bay City last week. Friday, the 9-2 Cardinals take on Stafford at 7 p.m. at Channelview...
For The Record-Colburn I hate cell phones and computers.My phone invariably rings at the most inopportune time or makes that little dinging noise which occasionally necessitates another painful attempt at trying to return the text.And, our computer never seems to work correctly unless my wife is at home at the time! Now, that was a therapeutic rant.Social media was more bearable this past week as the majority of my incoming texts and emails featured pictures of big flounder...
For The Record- Meri Elen The third phase of the season for the West Orange-Stark Mustangs began like the other two did. With a stand full of fans…a lot of cheering…excited Mustangs….lots of points to no points. The Mustangs faced the Tarkington Longhorns for the first time ever and left a brand to the tune of 73-0.The victory advances WO-S to the second round to take on the Waco Robinson Rockets Friday night at 7:30 at Woodforest Bank Stadium in Shenandoah. “Congrats to the...
Staff Report-For The Record Mr. Lou Garriga of Bridge City was the winner of the Dallas Cowboy raffle sponsored by St. Mary Catholic School. He received a $300 Visa Card, a night stay in Dallas, two tickets to the Dallas football game this Sunday and two $25 gift certificates for purchases at the stadium. Mr. Garriga’s winning ticket was drawn by Father Daleo last week. Congratulations to Mr. Garriga!!...
Chuck Uzzle For The Record Saturday morning will officially usher in the 2016-2017 waterfowl season for all our local hunters and expectations run the gamut from cautiously optimistic to gung ho. Texas duck and goose hunters cranked up last weekend and the initial reports were mixed at best. Many local marshes that are historically proven early season producers had half limits on average which is a far cry from the norm. High water during the late summer stunted vegetation growth in many areas so the food sources have...
For the Record The 2016 volleyball playoffs ended for two Orange County teams last week with losses to “ton” teams. First, Huntington knocked out Bridge City 3 sets to 2 in bidistrict Nov. 1 and Tarkington was a four-set winner over Little Cypress-Mauriceville in the area round on Nov. 3. LC-M, 29-15 overall, tied Silsbee for the District 12-4A title at 9-1. “We had a great season working as a team and accomplishing goals all the while being heavily supported by some great...
Meri Elen Jacobs - For The Record The District Championship was on the line Friday night when the Mustangs took the field at F.L. McLain Stadium. A loss to the Bobcats would give both teams the “Co-Championship” title. WO-S put on a show and showed just how stingy they can be. They weren’t willing to give up their title, or many yards and certainly not any points as they beat Orangefield, 60-0 for the outright District title. “We got after them pretty good,” Head Coach Cor...
Daver Rogers - For The Record Bridge City High grad Matt Bryant became the Atlanta Falcons’ all-time kick scorer in last Sunday’s National Football League game against Green Bay. With 4:28 left in the first quarter of Sunday’s contest against Green Bay, Matt Bryantlink broke Morten Andersen’s franchise record in points by notching his 807th point as a Falcon. It took Bryant 103 games to reach that mark; Andersen gained 806 points in 124 contests. “It’d be awesome,” B...
Dave Rogers - For the Record A .500 or better record and improved playoff seeding will be at stake Friday when Little Cypress-Mauriceville travels to play Navasota. The two squads are currently tied for third in District 10-4A Division I with league marks of 2-2. Overall, LC-M is at 4-5 while Navasota’s Rattlers, state champions in 2012 and 2014, are 2-7. “It’ll be a tough test,” Bears coach Randy Crouch said. “Their record is very deceiving. Early in the season they played se...
Capt. Dickie Colburn For The Record “We had a really good year two years ago fishing right here around the camp with a Catch 2000 and a MirrOdine when no one else could make the school bass bite,” said Warren Evans.“I think the one with the silver sides and green back worked the best, but we didn’t experiment much with other colors after it worked so well!” “The 2000 fishes much like the old Near Nuthins which you can’t find anymore,” added his fishing buddy, Len Peavey.“You...
Meri Elen Jacobs - For The Record The Liberty Panthers planned an ambush on the Mustangs last week, by completely changing their offense to a “scrum/rugby-style.” Although the Mustangs didn’t score as many points as they have been, they were able to walk away with a 32-7 victory. The Panthers put together a great game plan to try to slow down the Mustangs and keep them off of the field. The Mustangs had 28 offensive plays to Liberty’s 63 and the Chain Gang defense spent a...
The Bridge City Middle School 7th grade volleyball red team was defeated by Orangefield last night 22-25, 25-21 and 3-15. Caryss Carpenter was perfect from the service line with 18 super serves. Hannah Murchison, Kaylyn Dosch and Emma Gaspard all did a great job serving. Lauren Richter, Reesie Ryder and Kember Ess had pretty passes up to the setter while Hallie Boswell had some great digs. Mallory Silva and Ressie Ryder did a awesome job setting the ball up to their...
Youth Weekend important for many reasons Chuck Uzzle For The Record One of perhaps the most anticipated hunting days of the year is upon us; Saturday morning starts off the annual youth hunting weekend in Texas. Young hunters and adults alike look forward to this very special weekend for a variety of reasons. For many young hunters this is their opportunity to take center stage and reap the benefits of all the practice and preparation they have been through during the off season. The trips to the range, the work at the...
IT CAN ALWAYS GET WORSE Capt. Dickie Colburn For The Record Unfortunately, the longer I fish the longer my “It can’t get any worse than this...” list grows.Easily one of the most annoying and potentially dangerous mishaps involves wrapping a ghost crab trap around your prop.Colder weather only magnifies the problem as it invariably requires climbing out of the boat to solve the problem. A ghost trap, by frustrated angler definition, is one of the countless wire traps lying on the bottom of the lake with no visible float...
Games This Week WEST ORANGE-STARK over LIBERTY-- The luster came off of the hype for this game when the Hardin-Jefferson Hawks upset the Panthers Friday night erasing the advance stories about two undefeated teams clashing for the sole possession of first place in District 12-4A II. Instead, the Mustangs will come off their bye week ready to crush Liberty and probably will do it!!! BRIDGE CITY over NAVASOTA—Since last season when the Rattlers changed their head coach and district in which to play they’ve transformed from a s...
TV RATINGS REVEAL NFL LOSING POPULARITY Joe Kazmar For The Record As the National Football League’s 2016 season begins its eighth week this week several websites, newspapers and radio and television sports talk shows are indicating that the ratings have plunged downward somewhat so far this season. There are scores of reasons and explanations for the drop in the football fans’ interest, some which make perfect sense to me and others that seem a bit far out. We first must explain that the attendance at the games in the sta...
For The Record The end of the regular season spells the start of another postseason for the Little Cypress-Mauriceville volleyball squad. The Lady Bears were playing at Silsbee Tuesday night, seeking to avenge their only District 22-4A loss. They improved to 8-1 in district with a 3 sets to 1 win over Orangefield Oct. 21. Ally White put away 13 kills, Madison Taggart 12 and Berkley Dobranski added 10 in the 25-14, 15-25, 25-18, 25-14 win. Kayla Dominguez lofted 25 set-assists...
For The Record Ninth-grader Maddison Helm of Orangefield and sophomore Eli Peveto of Little Cypress-Mauriceville will lead three Orange County cross country teams into Saturday’s Region III Class 4A meet in Huntsville. Both Peveto and Helm were individual winners in last week’s District 22-4A meet at Claiborne West Park. While Peveto is seeking to qualify for his second straight state meet, Helm is a newcomer to the regional meet. But her coach, Stephanie Williams, was not...
BEAUMONT, Texas – The Lamar University men’s basketball coaching staff held the player draft for its annual Red and White Scrimmage Monday in anticipation of theTuesday scrimmage. The No. 1 overall selection was awarded to the Red team and they selected junior college transfer Colton Weisbrod with the pick. Weisbrod is in his first season with the Cardinals after spending the 2015-16 campaign at Lamar State College Port Arthur. During his lone season with the Seahawks, Weisbrod set a program career scoring record on his way...
They ended Bridge City’s Decade of Domination. Little Cypress-Mauriceville teammates stuck close to super sophomore Eli Peveto Tuesday morning at Claiborne West Park and together, the Bears won the District 22-4A cross country title. Bridge City had won nine straight district titles, though not all came in the same district as LC-M. With Ruben Valencia’s sixth-place finish their best, Bridge City’s boys placed third this time. Silsbee was second to LC-M in the hot and humid...
Its biggest scoring outburst since Labor Day carried Bridge City’s football team into Friday night’s District 10-4A Division I showdown with Silsbee. Meanwhile, Little Cypress-Mauriceville tries to shake off being on the wrong end of that 54-28 outcome last week to ready for Friday’s trip to play Huffman Hargrave. “People try to make this out as a showdown because they’re 2-0 in district and we’re 2-0,” BC coach Dwayne DuBois said of his team’s home game against Silsbee...
MUSTANG INSIDER - Meri Elen Jacobs The Mustangs stormed into Sour Lake Friday night and beat Hardin Jefferson, 62-0, in Hawk Stadium, upping their shutout number to six for the season. The offense finished the game with 389 total yards and the defense held the Hawks to 16 total yards and six first downs. “I thought that our guys played as hard as we asked them to,” Head Coach Cornel Thompson said. “We executed on offense and defense had a pretty dang good night. We made plays...
Capt. Chuck Uzzle For the Record I have no idea why we as anglers are constantly trying to complicate things, always re-inventing the wheel and adding corners. In our never ending quest to catch more and bigger fish we often stray down the path which we think leads to discovery only to find that out that if we had just read the street signs we’d be in much better shape. Over the years it seems like we have become so detailed and specific that the average fisherman suffers from “paralysis by analysis”. Fishing reports have...
By: Meri Elen Jacobs October 7 was a big day for KJ Miller. It wasn’t the senior’s 18th birthday. It wasn’t the day he got an offer to play at the next level. But it was a day he probably won’t forget. Not only was he crowned Homecoming King earlier in the day at the pep rally, he scored on not one but two punt returns in the 68-0 whipping of the Hamshire-Fannett Longhorns. Miller also scored on a 26 yard pass from Chaka Watson. But Miller wasn’t the only Mustang who had a...
