Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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The Orangefield tennis team ended their season this week by competing in the district tournament. Mixed Doubles’ team, Megan Ibeck and Chase Furlough, placed third in their division. Also earning a third place medal was the Girls Doubles team of Abby Green and Ashlyn Turley. The duo played a tough playback match against Silsbee for a bid to the regional tournament. They suffered a loss with a score of 7-5, 1-6, 6-4. Boys Doubles, Slade Granger and Dakota Harrison as well as T...
Sophomore golfer Wenny Chang seems to be peaking at just the right time. The Hsinchu, Taiwan native has been named Southland Conference Golfer of the Month announced league officials Wednesday afternoon. It marks the first monthly superlative for Lamar this season, and it is the final award before the Lady Cardinals open Southland Conference play next week. Chang posted back-to-back runner-up finishes in Lamar’s previous two tournaments. Chang carded a three-round 218 to e...
The WOS Softball game scheduled for April 10 vs. Hardin-Jefferson will only be a varsity game beginning at 5:00pm....
During this year’s National Park Week, April 18-26, the National Park Service at Big Thicket National Preserve invites the public to find their national parks across the country, and those here locally in southeast Texas. The national park system has been described as “America’s best idea”. National parks preserve majestic natural wonders. They keep watch over valued sites and artifacts of our American culture. National park sites offer recreational opportunities and insight i...
While local youngsters were forced to hunt Easter eggs in soggier conditions than they would have liked and thunderstorms idled across east Texas, the SRA was finally able to squeeze back the discharge rate up on Toledo Bend. For the past three weeks the majority of the Sabine Lake fishermen have been forced to either make the run to Big Lake or ply the waters south of the Causeway due to the massive amount of fresh water runoff. And, while they paid both fresh and saltwater...
Just about any Texas fisherman who ever wet a line knows that the spring is full of many things, most of which fall into the category of uncertainty and unpredictability. The all time #1 villain is the weather man and his friend the marine forecast, aka “that #$%@ wind”! For plenty of us who take advantage of every season the waders that were used during duck hunts have become your best friend as the gears switch in favor of chasing trophy trout in 60 plus degree water. All but the most hard core of anglers routinely shu...
A full moon rose over centerfield in Orangefield Thursday night as the Lady Bobcats hosted their cross-community rivals, the Bridge City Lady Cardinals, in a critical district match-up between last season's district champion and this season's undefeated leader. One doesn't need to be an avid sports fan to appreciate the dynamics of this duel. Earlier in the season the Lady Bobcats had lost to the Lady Cardinals 2-1 in extra innings. Then Orangefield fell to the Little...
Alicia Smith, Bridge City High School Senior, was the 1st place medalist qualifier for the Regional Golf Tournament to represent District 24 AAAA that will be held in Huntsville Monday, April 13 and Tuesday April 14. Alicia has been a four year Varsity Golfer for Bridge City High School. Alicia is the daughter of Linda Richardson. Congratulations, Alicia and Good Golfing in Huntsville....
Final Four Features Three No. 1 Seeds, One Darkhorse This weekend the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament goes into its final stages with the Final Four semifinals tipping off Saturday at Indianapolis. There have not been many surprises leading up to this big weekend as three of the four No.1 seeds came out unscathed from the first four rounds of competition and are ready to put their name on the championship trophy after Monday night’s title contest. Kentucky, the overall top seed of the tourney, leads the way to the Final Fou...
The Triangle Tail Chasers kicked off their 2015 tournament year out of Ancelet’s Marina Saturday morning and set the bar pretty high for the remainder of the year.In spite of the absolutely horrid water conditions in both the rivers and the lake, the top four teams still put together three fish stringers in excess of 21 pounds! The finish was so tight In fact, that there is no way the fourth place team of Joe Strahan and Colt Westbrook could have just eye-balled the three catches that beat them and not felt like their 2...
The 15th Annual Kiwanis Golf Tournament was held at the Sunset Grove Country Club, Saturday, March 28. For the second year in a row, the First Financial Bank team placed first in the tournament. Team members included Curt Leger, Steve Williams, Dale Dugas, and Jerrod Dugas. According to Shane Johns, Tournament Committee Chair and Kiwanis Board Member, “My fellow Kiwanians and I are grateful for all of the team and tee sign sponsorships this year. These funds allow our club t...
When Chase Rutledge first started playing basketball in the 7th Grade he would play against older kids and he would tie his right hand to shoot lay-ups with his left, all in an effort to become a better player. It appears that hard work and hitting a growth spurt has paid off for the West Orange-Stark Mustang senior point guard as he finished the season as the Co-MVP of District 24-4A. Matthew Kress of Orangefield shared the MVP award. Coach Tremaine Hancock said Rutledge...
Most any fisherman who spends time on our local waters has a theory about how the tides work and where they need to be to catch fish during those tides. Suprisingly enough there are plenty of people who don’t understand how important the tides really are, or for that matter what a tide is. According to Webster’s dictionary, tide is the periodic variation in the surface level of the oceans, bays, gulfs, inlets, and estuaries caused by gravitational attraction of the moon and sun. The influence the moon has over the tides is...
The 6th Annual Golf Tournament will be May 4, at Sunset Country Club. Registration for morning golf will be from 7:00 am with tee time at 8:00 am and registration for afternoon golf will be at 12:00 pm, with tee time at 1:00 pm. There are still sponsorships available....
Trey Lee, Senior and Randy Underwood, Junior from the Bridge City High School Bass Fishing Team won big at the SETX High School Fishing Tournament this weekend held at Umphrey Pavilion on Lake Sam Rayburn. Trey and Randy brought four keepers to the scales weighing in at 16.96 pounds. They knew this was a good bag of fish. They had that one kicker fish that everyone needs, it was a lunker going 7.55 lbs but would it be enough? The boys were competing against over 350 teams...
The Orangefield track team did well in the freshmen district tournament Thursday, March 26. Luke Truncale won the Boys’ Singles division with a win over Bridge City in the finals. Doubles team, Zach Dischler and Dylan Williams placed second losing to Hardin-Jefferson. In the JV tournament, Justin Dupuis advanced to the semifinals in Boys’ Singles....
I ducked under an abandoned vendor tent to dig out my cell phone and check on the time.It was 1:45 and the ankle deep water covering most of the park was rushing into the streets on its way into a muddy and steadily rising Sabine River. Police officers and local volunteers sloshed their way through the driving rain helping hard core spectators navigate the flooded streets and avoid ever widening mud holes in the parking lot. In a word, the Saturday edition of the prestigious B...
Jeff Fults Sports Commentary For The Record As the weather has heated-up, so has our area’s Dist. 24-4A baseball and softball action lighting up diamonds all over Orange County. Coach Dena Adkins’ Little Cypress-Mauriceville Lady Bears played three games in three days leaving the Bears with a district record of 3-1 at weeks end. The lone-loss came last Thursday at the hands of the Bridge City Lady Cardinals (3-0), with a solid pitching performance by Kellyn Cormier, mak...
Chris Lane, a professional angler from Alabama, may soon change his tune to Sweet Home Orange, Texas after winning the 2015 Bassmaster Elite Series on March 22. “OHH Baby,” were Lane’s first words after winning the competition. Lane started Sunday not far from the launch point because he had caught two fish there the previous day. The event was held March 19-22 at the City of Orange Boat Ramp with a variety of other activities in addition to the fishing in spite of a rain-...
I can’t tell you how many times I have seen this happen, Joe Angler reads the fishing report in the paper or hears about one at a local tackle shop and decides he better get down there because the fish are literally “ jumping in the boat, or so the story goes. Well Joe Angler gathers up all his gear the next morning and at sunrise he is at “the spot”, only problem is he is not alone, not by a long shot. Joe Angler now has dozens of boats all in the same small area all expecting to do a number on the fish; they are all sad...
With thousands of people attending the 2015 Bassmaster Elite series tournament in Orange, it would make sense that some of them would need a place to eat, or sleep, or shop. Many Orange County businesses contacted reported an upturn in traffic last week, even if they didn't have specific numbers. For instance, Bruce Self, owner of Burger Town in Orangefield, said he already noticed a slight increase in traffic on Thursday. He added, though, the foot traffic always depended on...
Chase Angelle pitched a sensational game and the Lamar baseball team backed him with eight runs on 15 hits to give the Cardinals its first Southland Conference win on an 8-1 victory over New Orleans on Wednesday at Maestri Field. Saturday’s game was moved from 2 o’clock to 1 o’clock, and Sunday’s finale remains at its slated time as of Friday night, although the option for a doubleheader will be discussed Saturday morning. Angelle (2-3) pitched a complete game for the Cards (9-12, 1-6 Southland Conference) and allowed...
The first two rounds of this year’s Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament had several games that were decided by the last shot—or in a couple of cases—the referee’s whistle, with five being dubbed “upsets” by the way they were seeded. This year’s Sweet Sixteen bracket doesn’t really show any bona fide Cinderella teams, although No. 11 seed UCLA beat a No. 14, but there are one No. 8 seed, two No.7 seeds and two No. 5 seeds that are still alive because they beat a lower seeded team. The biggest upset of the tournament so far...
West Orange - Stark High School student Ja'Tayjah Vital placed second in her weight class at the state powerlifting meet in Corpus Christi this past weekend. Pictured is Ja'Tayjah Vital and powerlifting coaches Carl Broussard and Ed Dyer. Broussard is the Head Coach for powerlifting....
"President and CEO of the Stark Foundation, Walter G. Riedel III, along with members of the B.A.S.S. Organization, Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce and many other community supporters proudly "made the cut" at the festival opening and ribbon cutting ceremony, which took place at 11:00 am, Thursday, March 19. This ribbon cutting signifies the opening of this year's Orange County River Festival celebrating the Bassmaster Elite Series fishing tournament presented by Stark...
