Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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This is the time of the year when the big-time football programs get their seasons started on the right foot by playing some lower echelon Division I teams, generally resulting in some real lop-sided scores. And for these smaller schools, it is a chance to fatten their coffers with big paydays at the expense of their football players. These are the games I refer to as “sacrificial lamb” contests. But for most college football fans this is a busy week as they scramble to get domestic things in order so they can watch the...
Games This Week WEST ORANGE-STARK over NEDERLAND –This could very well bE the Mustangs toughest game until they reach the latter stages of the state playoffs. The Bulldogs finished the 2017 season with a 9-3 mark. Starting off the season with an upset victory would be a feather in Nederland’s cap. But it’s unfortunate the bird they choose is bald. BRIDGE CITY over DIBOLL—The Cardinals will find out real fast whether they can win on the road or not. An opening-season win would be great for new head coach Allen DeShazo...
If you are lucky enough in your lifetime to spend any amount of time with a good dog you should count yourself fortunate because they are rare and very special. Every “dog person” I know would agree that the unconditional love of a good dog is a wonderful thing and should be experienced by every person at least once. I read a quote once that said “If you ever want to see who really loves you lock your wife and your dog in the trunk of your car for an hour and see who is happi...
“I hope we can get our last keeper redfish before that storm hits us,” said Rud Jenkins while launching another cast toward the small drain.”“You are so pessimistic,” chided his lifelong fishing buddy, Walt Fulmer.“Put your cell phone up and keep casting!” “My cell phone is in the truck,” responded Rud, “just look behind you.”The incessant taunting never ends with these two Houston anglers.I was convinced that Bob Crew and Gene Locke owned the top spot for incessant picking, but that was prior to fishing with Rud and...
KAZ’S KORNER There’s not much disagreement that the 2018 edition of the Houston Astros has the strongest starting pitchers in the major leagues. Their defense is more than adequate, but their hitting and ability to score runs is suspect. Houston started the season strong and maintained first place in the American League West throughout the first half of the schedule. The starting pitching staff led the league in most categories—combined wins, earned run average and strikeouts—just to name a few. The team continued to drive i...
Photo: Will Jenkins and his son, Gator won 1st place in redfish stringer category with 3 reds that weighed a total of 19.84 lbs. Best of all they were all 3 caught on a Fly rod from a Sabine Skiff boat. “I think Jeremy and I are in a good position,” said Tony Viator while standing in the broiling heat watching the final teams weigh in at Saturday’s IFA Elite Redfish Tournament.” His casual assessment was somewhat conservative as he and his partner, Jeremy Reeves, were current...
The life of a head football coach at a Division I college or university begins with a man walking around campus with a big target on his back. The reason for this must be because so many folks have too much time on their hands and practice their genealogy by digging into the private lives of these football coach. The poor coach who stole the fat kid’s lunch in the seventh grade could be charged with grand larceny 30 years later. In a more serious vein, just in the last few days two major college head football coaches have b...
Due only to the relatively small number of local anglers competing in the SETX Series twice a month, their afternoon tournaments are more akin to a “poker night out” than a fishing competition.The two fish limit (1 trout-1 redfish) format is just perfect for a short afternoon event, but thus far it appears that the entry fees ($200 per team for two tournaments} are a little steep for anglers hoping to learn as well as compete. Everything is relative, however, as the winners cash some very respectable checks for a few hou...
It was a nice Saturday afternoon on July 28 when I called my golfing buddy Craig Couvillion to give him my “pre-weenie” warning that I would not be playing golf on the next day. The reason I was “weenieing out” was because my head was stopped up, my sinuses were draining and my throat was getting raw. It appeared I was getting a dreaded summer cold just as wife Susan and I were packing for our trip to Las Vegas on Monday, July 30. We closed up the house that Sunday afternoon and drove to Houston where we would spend the night...
Connie Dyson was serious, but all smiles as she passed along her own eye-opening experience several years back.“The girls were planning a 50^th anniversary get together for some dear friends and as usual I had already taken the bull by the horns before we even met,” she recalled in great detail. “I had conservatively estimated the number of friends and relatives that would attend, reserved a meeting place and ordered five hundred pounds of crawfish in advance.Several of us had already agreed to the proposed date and I knew...
One of the longest held and most successful area fishing tournament is about to cast off. The OCARC Annual Fishing Tournament and Fundraiser will be held Aug. 3-4 with certifications starting at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4 at the city of Orange Boat Ramp. Weigh-in starts at 5 p.m. on Aug. 4. John Thomas has been the OCARC director for 44 years. He said the tournament got its start when they made fishing lures under the name Sabine River Tackle. "We got famous doing them," Thomas...
Attention all interested WOS High School Volleyball players: Please meet at the WOSHS Activity gym on Wednesday, August 1 at 8:30am - Noon. You must have a completed physical for your participation in practice. Physical papers can be picked up in the Athletic Office from the Trainer....
Not surprisingly, the field continues to grow in the SETX Series fishing tournaments, but at least thus far, Brian Quebedeaux and Michael Fesco have proven to be tough to beat.The local duo has taken home the first place check in two of the first three events. The accommodating series, much like the popular Sabine River bass tournaments, take place after work on weekday afternoons.The SETX event kicks off at 5:00 pm every other Thursday evening. A new high of thirteen teams competed in last week’s tournament and they o...
If there’s one thing that happens in Major League Baseball today it’s that if Justin Verlander speaks, everybody listens. The Houston Astros’ ace right-hander is three victories shy of the 200-win benchmark which generally is the stepping stone in being nominated for future entry to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Verlander figured he would have 200 wins by the All-Star break early last month but has been unable to even get one more win since June 14. Verlander’s problem is the same thing happens quite often to former...
Cutline: Bridge City's Matt Bryant checks out the armament on a Blackhawk helicopter during a USO trip to Iraq with fellow Atlanta Falcons players and staff in June Dave Rogers For The Record As the United States of America celebrates its 242nd birthday, Bridge City native Matt Bryant and a handful of his Atlanta Falcons teammates have a deeper appreciation of the expression “Freedom isn’t free.” Bryant, teammates Alex Mack and Ben Garland, head coach Dan Quinn, team CEO K...
For years the only bump in the road that I had to navigate during the scorching summer months was keeping the kids hydrated and lathered up with a quality sunscreen.The catching part of fishing was a given as the bite could not be more fisherman-friendly. The daily program ranged from cruising the lake to stay cool while harassing small flocks of gulls and terns working over school trout to drifting or bottom fishing with live bait.The vacationing youngsters were into either pattern as long as there were more cold drinks in...
When I first arrived to the Orange Area back in 1966, I brought my old set of golf clubs that I hadn’t used much in almost a decade while I was attending McNeese State and then playing pro baseball in the Chicago Cubs organization. Between settling into my new job as assistant sports editor and outdoor editor of the Orange Leader and my new home town, dust continued to grow on those golf clubs. At some social function during my first couple of years in Orange I ran into who turned out to be my best buddy Dr. Jack C...
The origins of disc golf started in the 1960s in California, according to the Professional Disc Golf Association website. In Southeast Texas, disc golfers have been playing for several years. Even Orange has its own course for two years named The Nazz behind the Church of the Nazarene on Martin Luther King Drive. Consequently, the second annual Battle on the Border tournament was held June 30 there, consisting on different divisions of skill sets playing two rounds of 18 holes...
RECORD PHOTOS: David Ball For the Record: David Ball Workers were completing the cleanup on Tuesday after the Bridge City High School softball stadium was demolished on Monday. A portion of the baseball field will be demolished next. The old fields are making way for new ones after the Bridge City Independent School District Board of Trustees approved building them at their June meeting. The baseball field will have a synthetic turf infield and a natural grass outfield. The...
Your first real look at how badly last week’s unexpected flooding set back the “catching” on Sabine Lake could come as early as Thursday afternoon. The SETX Series will host their second of six afternoon events out of Ancelet’s and both redfish and specks are part of the winning catch.The first event showed just how tough the trout fishing has been lately, but it was still a very successful opening tournament for the group. Aside from the competition aspect, the tournaments are designed to accommodate folks that have to work...
I planned on spending Father’s Day weekend like I usually do by playing golf on Saturday and Sunday with whatever relatives come to town, opening gifts and eating a big meal. But our illustrious local weathermen earlier last week predicted a tropical disturbance would be in our area by the weekend where we could expect anywhere from eight to 12 inches of rain from the disturbance. So, the out of towners decided not to even show up early enough to play golf. And as usual, the weather geniuses got caught causing an early panic...
The morning could not have started out any better. Jim Franklin and I stood at the end of the dock watching the first light of the day creep over the stately pines lining the Louisiana side of Toledo Bend while finishing off a cup of coffee. “It doesn’t get any better than this,”said Franklin. “Good friends, a beautiful lake and we are going to put it on the crappie!”It should be noted that Jim Franklin has never pulled away from any dock not believing that he was going to...
Cutline: Finding fish by understanding the variables keeps every fisherman interested. Capt. Chuck Uzzle For the Record One of the biggest and most intriguing factors that keep fishermen coming back day after day is the process of discovery, figuring out the puzzle so to speak. The task of sifting through all the variables and making sense out of all the factors in order to establish a pattern is what drives many anglers. Unknowingly we all go through the same process every...
I guess it’s lucky that I’m not an alumnus of Lamar University, because whatever annual donation I give to my alma mater (McNeese University) would be stopped cold until the new athletic director (Marco Born) turns around and goes back where he came from (Louisiana Tech). Born is like the new sheriff in town who walks down the middle of the street with both guns a-blazing hollering “Thar’s a new sheriff in town and I’m gonna change things so that we’re better than most places around here.” Born’s bags were still unpacked...
Schuyler Thibodaux, Bridge City baseball standout, isn't the only Cardinal named as a state all star. Joining him is recent graduate, Kassidy Wilbur, a Bridge City standout in softball. Wilbur said she discovered she made the Texas Girls Coach Association as an all star last Saturday. She found out she earned the honor after a team mate's father told her. "I was excited," she said. "I knew my coach (Kayla Gallardo) nominated me the last two years." Gallardo said over Wilbur's...
