Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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The Bridge City Lady Cardinals softball season came to a screeching halt this weekend courtesy of the Caldwell Lady Hornets. The Lady Hornets defeated the Bridge City Lady Cardinals twice this past weekend to claim the best of three series and will now advance to the Region III Area round of the Class 4A playoffs. The Lady Cardinals season ends with a 29-4 record. Caldwell, the runner-up team from District 21-4A, defeated the Lady Cardinals in game 1 on Friday (May 6) in Livingston by a score of 3-2 in an eight inning matchup...
WOS Baseball will play Giddings in a best of three series at Porter High School in the Area Round, beginning Thursday May 12, at 7 pm and then Friday, May 13, beginning at 5 pm. If needed a third game will start 30 minutes after completion of the second game Friday....
The West Orange-Stark High School Athletic Banquet, which is catered by Moncla’s, will be at 6:30 pm Tuesday, May 17, at the West Orange-Stark High School Cafeteria. Male and female athletes from the current school year 2015-2016 will be honored. Each athlete will receive one free ticket. Parents and other family members may purchase tickets for $7.00 at the West Orange-Stark Athletic office by May 13. If you need additional information please contact the Athletic Department at 882-5530....
West Orange - Stark High School's Taylor Colbert signed a track and field scholarship with Lamar University Friday. She is pictured with WOS High School Assistant Girls Track Coach Gwen Kelly-Hall. Head Girls Coach Desiree Boxie is not pictured....
Little Cypress-Mauriceville High SchoolBaseball team vs Huffman is Saturday, May 7, at 2 p.m. at LCM High School. Due to this high school baseball playoff game date and time, and the Texas STAAR tests for 6th graders Monday May 9, the 12U Beast Team will be taking this weekend off....
WOS Baseball will have a single playoff game against Splendora at Jasper High School on Friday, May 6, at 7:00pm....
The regular season is over and, for three local baseball teams, the road to Austin begins this weekend. The Class 4A high school baseball playoffs get underway for the District 24-4A Bridge City Cardinals, West Orange-Stark Mustangs and Little Cypress Mauriceville Battlin' Bears this Friday and Saturday as each team will face an opponent from District 23-4A. The Bridge City Cardinals are the runner-up in District 24-4A and will take on the Liberty Panthers, the third place team from District 23-4A, in a best of three-game...
Capt. Dickie Colburn For The Record Surrounded by lightning and miserably engulfed by a driving rain, Redfish Elite officials and the seven finalists patiently sought cover while hoping to out wait the storm and get Day 3 of the tournament under way.To avoid having to cross the open lake, the anglers had trailered around the lake to a more protected launch in the back of Johnson’s Bayou. If anything, the conditions the prior day had proven even more precarious as a full field of anglers found themselves struggling to s...
Kaz's Korner Joe Kazmar - ForThe Record The merry month of May has sloshed into Southeast Texas and Southwestern Louisiana with hopes that things will get better for our Houston Astros, Houston Texans, Dallas Cowboys and Kentucky Derby fans wanting another Triple Crown winner. As far as the Astros are concerned, their month of April went almost exactly opposite as it did last year, with Houston finishing the month with a mere seven wins and a whopping 17 losses. The Astros...
Bret Johns, Matt Purgahn, Shane Johns and Brad Rutledge of Team Mann Insurance placed first in the four-person scramble of the Kiwanis "Glow" Golf Tournament. An exciting night of golf took place on the greens of Sunset Grove Country Club for the 3rd Annual Kiwanis “Glow” Golf Tournament on Saturday, April 23. Bret Johns, Matt Purgahn, Shane Johns and Brad Rutledge of Team Mann Insurance placed first in the four-person scramble with an overall score of 61. Two-time rei...
District champs pictured are, front row- Lacie Cochran, Jacie Miller, Jon’ee Villanueva, Justice Butler and Alicia Merritt; back row- Emily Landry, Caitlyn Robson, JoAnna Henry, Jayce Perry, Kaitlyn Huff and Shelby Smith. Not Pictured- Kaitlyn Avery. The Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School JV Softball Team recently claimed the District title. They were 22-1 for the year and 10-0 in district. According to Coach Melissa Brewer, “I am so proud of these young ladies, not onl...
Captain Dickie Colburn - For The Record The pro anglers fishing the first qualifying tournament of the year on the Elite Redfish Circuit are back on Sabine. The Pt. Arthur Convention Center will host this event, but the anglers will be plying the same waters they fished in the Classic hosted out of Orange only two weeks ago. The tournament kicks off Friday morning. Even with the benefit of having fished the area so recently, I don’t see the winner posting a heavier winning weight than Clark Jordan brought to the scales.I d...
Kaz's Korner Joe Kazmar - For The Record I remember when I was a little kid growing up in Upstate New York and my father would come home from work at exactly 3:50 p.m. every day like clockwork. Before he sat down to drink the fresh cup of coffee my mother had perked and poured for him, he’d ask me if I wanted to throw some when he finished his traditional cup of coffee. What he meant was that he was asking me if I wanted to pitch to his catcher’s mitt-- something I never rem...
The WOS Softball game at Hamshire Fannett is cancelled for today. It has been rescheduled for Saturday, April 23, at 4:00 pm. The WOS Baseball game at Hamshire Fannett is cancelled for today. It has been rescheduled for Saturday, April 23 at 5:00 pm....
How big will they be? See for yourself Saturday, April 30, at the Yellowfin Elite Redfish Tournament Series tournament weigh in. What began the week as 35 of the top pros in the nation battling it out, head to head with no team mates and no draw partners, will have been trimmed to just the Super 7 by Saturday’s weigh in. These pros will battle the fish, each other and the elements to see who will take home the $50,000 top prize. Bring the family to Pleasure Island for the S...
Cameron Nance, Orangefield Sophomore, placed 2nd in the Biggest Fish Award with a 9.12 pound lunker at Saturday’s SETX High School Fishing Association Tournament on Lake Sam Rayburn. Other Bobcats that caught nice fish are, Hunter Evans, with a 7 pounder and Kathleen Lozano who a caught a 6.68 pound bass. "OHS had 16 teams compete in the tournament, and most teams weighed in quality sacks of fish," said Adam Brown, Head Fishing Team Coach....
The WOS softball game at Hamshire-Fannett today has been cancelled. Weather permitting it will be rescheduled to tomorrow, Wednesday, April 20, varsity only beginning at 6:00 pm. The WOS baseball game at Hamshire-Fannett today has been cancelled. Weather permitting it will be rescheduled to tomorrow, Wednesday, April 20, beginning at 4:30 for JV and varsity to follow....
Eric Roark has been named Lamar University defensive line coach announced head coach Ray Woodard Tuesday afternoon. Roark replaces John Blake who left LU to take a similar position with the Buffalo Bills. “I really like the coaching experience that Eric brings to our staff,” said Woodard. “He has done a lot of recruiting in the state of Texas, and has coached with some colleagues of mine who I respect. I really believe he will be a great fit for Lamar University. “The guys on...
Federation Angler TV, the Pursuit Channel & TBF's Student Angler Federation - present the 2015 High School Fishing World Finals. Tune in tonight at 8 pm and 11 pm and Friday, April 22, at 6 am and Saturday, April 23 at 8 am. The program will be broadcast on DIRECTV 604 and DISH 393. The High School Fishing World Finals traveled to Florence, Al. last year to test the skills of our High School Anglers to see who was crowned the 2015 High School Fishing World...
Flounder stealing the show on Sabine. Capt. Dickie Colburn - For The Record “I can’t believe that I let you talk me into this,” mumbled Jim Ray while climbing into the boat with a sack of soggy kolaches, his signature lukewarm diet Dr.Pepper and a pair of really smelly Frogg Toggs.“We darned sure couldn’t have white perch fished at my place today……it was already pouring when I crossed the dam.” “Did you bring that rain suit I gave you just to prove that you haven’t lost it o...
Kaz's Korner Joe Kazmar - For The Record Despite the fact Major League Baseball is still in its first month of the new season, there has been much news the past couple of weeks about the National Football League’s master schedule of the 2016 season, several teams beginning their off-season conditioning program and the annual draft which begins next weekend. As predicted, the Houston Texans cut last year’s starting quarterback Brian Hoyer after obtaining Brock Osweiler fro...
Pictured is the freshman, rookie team of Kaden Duncan and Randy Abate, who earned a third place finish in the weekend tournament on Lake Sam Rayburn. Bridge City had a great weekend on Rayburn in round four of the SETX High School Fishing Tournament series. The rain held out but the wind made fishing tough. The freshman team of Kaden Duncan and Randy Abate earned a third place finish bringing in five fish weighing 21.77 pounds. Other notable Bridge City finishes were: Ty...
Spring and Summer are great times to explore the waterways of Big Thicket National Preserve. Most people experience few problems beyond the occasional sunburn or mosquitoes bites. However, there are several safety and environmental concerns that you should be aware of if you plan to spend time exploring the waterways of the preserve. “Water safety is important to us. We want every visitor to have a safe trip when they visit the preserve.” stated Big Thicket National Pre...
The Bridge City High School boys and girls track team recently participated in the West Orange-Stark 24-4 A District track meet. The results are as follows: Boys 3200 meter run: 1) Eli Peveto, Little Cypress, 10:23.33; 2) Rayce Piper, Little Cypress, 10:42.31; 3) Kyler Morse, Bridge City, 10:57.35; 4) Rob Saunders, Sour Lake, 11:22.58; 5) Ruben Valencia, Bridge City, 11:41.07; 6) Drew Walker, Bridge City, 11:47.58; 7) Brenden Gaffney, Hamshire-Fannett, 11:54.14; 8) Aven...
Elite Redfish pros line up for final live well check. The entire Yellowfin Redfish Elite field had safely returned and Pat Malone was introducing the first angler to weigh in to the crowd of spectators eager to cheer on the visiting pros. A short distance away, John Gothia paused only long enough to exhale, answer his cell phone, glance at his clip board and hand the remainder of his cold drink to anyone that would take it before hurrying off in response to yet another...
