Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Kaz's Korner Joe Kazmar - For The Record I remember arriving in Lake Charles, Louisiana in early September of 1959, a fuzzy-faced 17-year-old from Upstate New York who had a difficult time understanding the Cajuns speaking English and also getting my McNeese State classmates to interpret my Yankee dialect. The more people I met in the Lake Charles area, the more confused I got as to why they were LSU football fans instead of talking much about supporting the McNeese...
The future of the Cardinals looks to be in good hands for the immediate future as Dwayne DuBois was named athletic director on Monday night. The Bridge City Independent School District's Board of Trustees met in a regular scheduled meeting on Monday evening and, following a closed door, executive session to discuss administrative contracts, approved DuBois to officially be the Athletic Director of Bridge City ISD. According to Todd Lintzen, the new Bridge City ISD superintende...
West Orange-Stark made history Wednesday, Feb. 17 when Jack Dallas one the Offensive Willie Ray Smith award and Steven Tims won the Defensive Willie Ray Smith award. Although eight Mustangs have won this award, two have never won in the same year, for any school. Local sportswriters voted both as their top players for the year. Dallas finished the season with 3113 passing yards and 44 touchdowns. Tims finished finished on the defensive side of the ball with 215 total...
The WOS Home Baseball scrimmage vs. Deweyville, on Friday, Feb. 19, will begin at 4:00 pm with varsity and the JV game following....
Both Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School basketball teams will take to the court on Friday, Feb. 19. The boys will play West Orange-Stark for fourth place in district, while the girls will face Houston Wheatley in the Area round of playoffs. The boy’s game will be played at Orangefield High School at 6 p.m. The girls will travel to Huffman for the game against Houston Wheatley, which begins at 7 p.m. Coach Riddick said that tickets for the girls game are $5 and passes will be honored....
Kaz's Korner Joe Kazmar - For The Record The celebrations by Denver Broncos’ fans are just concluding from the 24-10 upset victory that took place last weekend at Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, CA. as the 2016 Major League Baseball season begins in its infancy. In fact our own surprising Houston Astros are scheduled to have their pitchers, catchers and major league staff report to their spring training site a Kissimmee, Fla. tomorrow (Thurs.) and begin workouts on Friday. T...
Two Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School football players took advantage of national signing day to ink with the colleges of their choice last week. Mitchell Lee signed with Southeastern Louisiana University and Stuart Viator with Stephen F. Austin University. Both Lee #81 and Viator #99 played tight end for the Bears....
Capt. Chuck Uzzle - For The Record Any tackle geek knows they are the next great weapon in the angling arsenal, saltwater spinnerbaits have come to the coast and the redfish have a new enemy. They come in array of different colors and each one does a little something different that sets it apart from the competition. Truth be told there are 2 basic styles and they both do a great job catching fish. The most common style is the “safety pin” style, famous in bass fishing cir...
Capt. Dickie Colburn - For The Record If you take folks fishing long enough you will witness any number of things that you would never even imagine happening and something that took place last week ranks well up on that list! I was fishing a middle aged couple, as if age made any difference, and we were catching well enough considering the conditions.The wind was howling out of the southwest and we were catching a redfish or two on virtually every high speed drift across the...
Ashley McDowell’s leadoff HR powers LU Ashley McDowell moved into tie for second place on Lamar University’s all-time home run list as she powered the Cardinals to an 11-7 victory over South Dakota in LU’s final game of the Sportco Kick Off Classic hosted by UNLV. McDowell led off the game with a solo home run for her 16th career HR, putting her in a tie with Beverly Corry. Casey Cromwell holds the LU mark with 19 home runs. McDowell finished the day with three RBIs, as did M...
The WOS Home Baseball scrimmage Vs. Memorial, on Tuesday Feb. 16, will be varsity only, starting at 5:00 pm....
Vivian Luong of Orange plants a longleaf pine seedling as part of the Centennial Forest project. For a generation sometimes seen as preoccupied with instant gratification, it was refreshing to spend a day planting for the future, even if that future is a long way off. “I hope my kids can come see my work in the future. I want to set a good example for them,” said Aleks Allen of Buna, and a member of Lamar University’s Honor’s Student Association (HSA) of the Reaud Honor’s...
Orangefield Lady Bobcats competed at the Silsbee Iron Powerlifting Meet on Thursday and came home with a 1st place team trophy. Placing 1st in their weight class were: Madison Taylor (555 pounds); Krista Wheeler (565 pounds); Brooke Morphew (720 pounds) and Skylar Hamons (710 pounds). Brooke Morphew was named outstanding girl lifter. Other girls placing were: Britton Edgerly, Kayla Gordon, Julia Droll, Bailey Cady and Kaitlin Gordon. The Boy Bobcat Powerlifting team also...
Two Orangefield High School seniors signed scholarships to play football at the college level. Austin Moore signed with Lamar University, Beaumont. Matthew Watkins signed with Southeastern Oklahoma State University....
Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School girls basketball coach, Linda Riddick, says that the LCM Lady Bears will play Splendora in the Bi-District round on Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 7:00 pm, at Warren High School. Ticket prices are adults $5, and students $3....
Captain Chuck Uzzle - For The Record Each and every year I get the opportunity to meet fishermen from all over the state, many of whom have dreams just like all of us about catching a huge fish. Seasoned saltwater veterans know this time of the year is not for the faint of heart and certainly not for the folks looking for instant gratification. Temperatures and foul weather make winter fishing as much of waiting game as anything, waiting on tides and feeding periods to align so the show can begin. Many fishermen new to the...
Staying warm equals more catching! Captain Dickie Colburn - For The Record After carefully shuffling their way across the frost covered dock, my clients hunkered down behind the leaning post in an effort to avoid the dreaded chill of the upcoming frigid boat ride.When I eased under the Adams Bayou Bridge the surface temperature in the bayou was a balmy fifty-one degrees, but we were about to deal with the chill factor of a 15 mile per hour northwest wind in 35 degree weather!...
Kaz's Korner Joe Kazmar - For The Record Sunday night’s Super Bowl may not have been the most exciting or action-packed culmination to another National Football League season, but it did offer a reiteration of something I have been harping on for 50 years—games and division titles are won with good offense, but championships are garnered by teams that play great defense. And for the second straight game, the Denver Broncos defense took away most of the running and passing lan...
As part of the National Football League's celebration of 50 years of the Super Bowl, Bridge City High School recently received two Golden Footballs honoring two of its alums who participated in the championship game. Shane Dronett and Jason Mathews, both 1989 graduates of BCHS, were honored by the NFL with the arrival of the Golden Footballs late last week. Dronett, a dominant defensive lineman, participated in Super Bowl XXXIII as a member of the Atlanta Falcons. Shane...
Little Cypress-Mauriceville boys golf coach, Bart Williams, reports that the LCM team finished Fourth at the Hardin Jefferson tournament. Individual scores were Evan Toohey, 80; Reese Soliz. 83; Tyler Ridgaway, 84; Trey Love, 87 and Hunter Hooks, 90. The team total was 334, the best four out of five scores. This is Toohey's best score in a High School tournament. The team finished ahead of all other contestants in our district this week. Coach Williams is shooting for keeping his team in the lead for district...
The Lady Bear golf team finished second at the Anahuac girls golf tournament, played at Chambers County golf course. Lauren Cox won individual honors with a career low of 71; Kacie Nichols shot 102; Teresa Beckett shot a career best 102; Jessica McLain shot a career best 110 and Marlee Bird shot a 142. Port Neches-Groves girls won the tournament....
The Wilkes had their way with the redfish last week. Dickie Colburn - For The Record When I saw Jim Morrissey’s number pop up on my phone I initially thought that he had yet another stat to report concerning last weekend’s Tailchaser Open Trout Tournament. If it weren’t for Jim, the results of virtually every redfish or trout tournament held on Sabine would never get shared with anyone that wasn’t on hand for the weigh-in. He does a fantastic job of not only updating live weig...
The WOS Baseball scrimmage scheduled for Monday, Feb. 8 at Kirbyville has been moved to the Mustangs field. Game times will be JV at 4:30 and Varsity to follow....
The Bridge City Powerlifting Team recently participated in the Vidor Invitational Meet. Overall the girls placed first and the boys placed second. Individual results are as follows: On the girls' side - Sophomore, Shania Dies placed first in her weight class, by lifting a total weight of 490 pounds. Junior, Tina Radinovic placed 5th in her weight class, by lifting a total weight of 390 pounds. Sophomore, Lauren Groom placed first in her weight class, by lifting a total weight of 755 pounds. Junior, Alyssa Fukuda placed first...
Joe Kazmar - For The Record Seattle’s huge 43-8 upset over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII not only earned respect and popularity for the Seahawks, but it also got the ire and attention of Denver’s general manager John Elway. The feisty Elway, who had led these same Denver Broncos to back-to-back Super Bowls after the 1997 and 1998 seasons went right to work retooling the Broncos’ defense from top to bottom in the two years since that devastating loss to Seatt...
