Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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The LCM Lady bears golf team are headed to state for the second year in a row. Senior, Lauren Cox, was the regional Champion for the second year in a row....
Kaz's Korner Joe Kazmar - For The Record Late Sunday afternoon 22-year-old pro golfing phenom Jordan Spieth was cruising to become the first golfer on the Pro Tour to win the prestigious Masters Tournament for the second straight year since Tiger Woods did it in 2002 and to become the first to win back-to-back titles while holding the lead after every round. Perhaps what Spieth was not aware of is the old cliché at Augusta National that the Masters Tournament really...
The Orangefield tennis team wrapped up its regular season of play at the district tournament this past week. Doubles team, Abby Green and Ashlyn Turley will advance to the regional tournament in Bryan, on April 18. The girls earned this bid by placing second in the tournament. They defeated Hamshire-Fannett’s Garcia and Mcmillian and Silsbee’s Arriaga and Daniel before losing in the finals 6-4, 6-3 to the Starnes sisters from Hamshire-Fannett. Placing third was boys dou...
Spring time is upon us, and every April the National Park Service kicks off the start of the visitor season with a series of events. National Park Week, April 16-24, is America's largest celebration of national heritage. It's about making great connections, exploring amazing places, discovering open spaces, enjoying affordable vacations, and enhancing America’s best idea—the national parks! It's all happening in your national parks. All national park units around the cou...
The Little Cypress Jr. High 7th and 8th grade girls track team participated in the District track meet recently. Pictured left to right are Melanie Cupp, Amber Lester, Avery Holland and Chelsea Perry. The Little Cypress Junior High 7th and 8th grade girls competed in their District track meet last night in Bridge City. Seventh Grade girls placed 7th. Makenzie Holland was district champ in the 800 meter run with a time of 2:47.5. Aidan Watson placed 6th in the 2400 meter run...
Girls on the Lady Bear golf team are, from left, Marlee Bird, Jessica McLain, Lauren Cox, Theresa Beckett and Kacie Nichols. Both Little Cypress-Mauriceville Golf Teams brought home District titles for the Bears last week. The Boys best four scores were the same 336 as Bridge City, but the tie-breaker was the fifth team member had a better score. The girls team won easily with Hardin Jefferson finishing second. The team shot 415 and 389 for a total of 804, followed by Hardin...
Austin Moore competed at the THSPA State Championship on Saturday in Abilene. Moore placed second in the 198 pound classification. He totaled 1605 pounds, with a squat of 610 pounds, bench 405 pounds and dead lift of 590 pounds. Congratulations to Moore on a fine power lifiting career....
Two highly successful Bassmaster Elite Series events are paving the way for future events, including the most recent high profile tournament. The Elite Redfish Series Classic Kick Off, the championship event of the Elite Redfish Series trail, will take place Friday, April 8 through Sunday, April 10 at the City of Orange Boat Ramp, which is located off Simmons Drive in Orange. The event will feature the 35 anglers who qualified during the 2015 season. The Elite Redfish Series...
Captain Dickie Colburn - For The Record While I prefer to believe that no one needs this reminder, there are still a lot of folks in Orange and Newton County that need help getting back into their homes following the flood.It is far from over for them! At least one trio of working women, all of whom assured me that they would have to kill me if I mentioned their names, have been using their noon breaks to unexpectedly provide lunch for random families burdened with the chore of cleaning up. “It makes you feel so good as they...
Pictured are Aston Reynolds, Madison Greenway, Gracie Elkins, Joli Ponfick, Stormi Lorenzo, Lilly Peltier, Coree Guerra, Harleigh Rawls, Jacelyn Martin, Kenadie Dubois, Brooklyn Sprayberry and Jaylynn Alfaro. The Orangefield Little Dribblers Major Division, ages 11-12 year old girls recently won first place in the Regional Tournament in Warren. They advance to Mexia April 12-16 for Nationals....
Some Texas hunters are already taking advantage of the Spring Turkey season. Captain Chuck Uzzle - For The Record As this years spring turkey season is set to get underway in a few days here in the piney woods portion of the state, local hunters will be treated to plenty of opportunities in the east Texas counties in which they may hunt. This years crop of gobblers appears to be strong and numbers of birds surveyed are up as well are the numbers of hunters. Many folks overlook the opportunity to chase these ultra wary birds r...
Kaz's Korner Joe Kazmar - For The Record When the National Football League owners held their annual spring meetings last week, one of the most essential topics on their agenda pertained to the conduct of the players on the field during games. According to an article in one of last week’s editions of the Houston Chronicle, one of the most controversial changes involved automatic player ejection for two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties in a game. “Specifically, if a player is...
Spencer Johns won the Warren JV tournament with an 88. Little Cypress-Mauriceville sophomore Spencer Johns won the Warren JV boys golf tournament on Tuesday with an 88. Jack Tindel shot a 105 and Matthew Halliburton shot 137. The Lady Bear Golf Team finished second at the Ozen girls golf tournament on Wednesday. Lauren Cox led the Lady Bears with a school record 69 to finish second individually. The previous record was held by Lauren Cox and Angela Wray with a 70. Teresa...
Cameron Choate and Paris Fregia captured gold in JV girls doubles in a recent tennis tournament. Orangefield hosted the JV/freshman district tournament on Tuesday, March 22. Several Bobcats experienced success with five of those individuals bringing home medals. Freshmen girls, Emily Havens won first in singles and teammate, Jennifer Swift placed second. The dynamic duo, Cameron Choate and Paris Fregia captured the gold in JV girls doubles by defeating LCM and two Hamshire...
Captain Dickie Colburn - For The Record It wasn’t until we unpacked the computer that I realized that I had failed to send in my column last week.It got packed up and moved to higher ground along with other items that my wife deemed irreplaceable when the emergency center declared a mandatory evacuation for our area. When I hooked it back up, the amount of unread emails was endless. Many of them were from folks asking why my column wasn’t in the paper, but the majority of the...
Kaz's Korner Joe Kazmar - For The Record College basketball fans were treated to some entertaining contests during last week’s first and second rounds of the 2016 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, better known as March Madness. And topping that list of games with exciting finishes were three of the Lone Star State’ five teams that qualified for this year’s 68-team field—the Texas Longhorns, Texas Aggies and the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks. Unfortunately, whenever the dust se...
Mike Moore’s and Chris Baggett show off their winning stringer from the GetDaNet Fishing Club's March tournament at Toledo Bend. Staff Report - For The Record Unprecedentedly high lake levels and rain were not enough to deter GetDaNet’s anglers from going after some Toledo Bend lunkers on Saturday, March 12. The muddy waters were not as bad an omen as would have been thought as several teams brought excellent stringers to the weigh-in at Fin & Feather Resort. In fact, new clu...
“Howdy Tex” was a common greeting from other anglers as Bink Grimes and I strode down the sidewalk towards our waiting boat. “I wonder how they know we’re from Texas” I thought to myself, then I looked down at my rods and it hit me as gazed at the fist full of baitcasters. We were in Florida and baitcasters are a dead giveaway that you are from the Lone Star State, down in the Sunshine State spinning tackle rules the angling world. Now before you go get in a fired up huff and quit reading this article because you think it...
The 3rd Annual Kiwanis “Glow” Golf Tournament has been rescheduled for Saturday, April 23, at Sunset Grove Country Club. For information on team registration, tee sign sponsorship, and/or donations, please call 886-4411 or visit the Kiwanis Club of Orange, TX Facebook Page....
While fishing at Toledo Bend this past Monday with his grandfather, Seth Chataignier, a fifth grader at Bridge City Intermediate, caught a 7 lb. 4 oz. largemouth bass. His grandfather, Mike Chataignier, asked Seth if he wanted to keep the bass to have it mounted by a taxidermist. Being a true conservationist, Seth insisted on releasing the large female bass so she could spawn and possibly grow into a bigger trophy for some other fisherman. Since the bass was released, Seth's...
The WOS Baseball games for this week, today and Thursday, have been cancelled due to the impending weather issues....
Spring is right around the corner and one of the most popular annual spring fundraisers has been scheduled. The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce has announced its 14th Annual Golf Tournament for Saturday, May 14 at Babe Zaharias Golf Course, which is located at 3500 Jimmy Johnson Blvd. in Port Arthur, Texas. The deadline to register for the event is Saturday, May 7. The cost is $60 per player and the registration fee includes golf, green fee, cart, beverages, food and door prizes. Mulligans are available for $5 each with a lim...
More than once it has happened, you and your best fishing buddy are standing side by side using the same lure but only one of you is really catching fish. The next time this happens you need to examine you partners lure a little more closely, especially when it comes to topwater plugs. There are plenty of serious fishermen out there who just take a plug out of the package and start using it without any thought of checking several key components. Hooks are the main thing, inferior hooks cost fishermen more fish than anything....
The WOS Softball games for this week have been cancelled due to the impending weather issues. They are: The Home WOS Softball game vs Hamshire-Fannett on Tuesday, March 15 The WOS Softball game at Silsbee on Wednesday, March 16...
The WOS Home Varsity Softball game that was scheduled for March 8, has been rescheduled to Saturday, March 12 at 10:00 am....
