Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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From my perch on the poling platform I often have plenty of time to think while I push my little boat around the marsh. The standard stuff that goes through every fisherman’s mind usually dominates my thoughts. “Where are the fish?” “Should I change locations?” “Is this the right bait?” Nothing out of the ordinary, just everyday fishing thoughts that happen to come to mind. Plenty of those moments routinely get interrupted by my fishing partner for that day and I snap back t...
The Bridge City girls' golf team has won the District 19-4A championship in back to back years. The Bridge City girls with a team score of 430 captured first place in this year's district tournament on Tuesday, March 26, at the Henry Homberg Municipal Golf Course in Beaumont after the competition was reduced to a one day event because of rain on Monday. The five girls that competed for Bridge City were Ashley Hale, Heidi Broussard, Reece Molina, Kamryn Lumpkin, and Aubrey...
The second half of district softball games for District 19-4A began on Thursday, March 28. The Bridge City Cardinals remain undefeated in district going into their games this week. The Cardinals got two more shutouts from pitcher Carson Fall to improve to 7-0 in their district games. Bridge City has a one game lead over the second place Lumberton Lady Raiders and over two games ahead of the third place Little Cypress Mauriceville Lady Bears who have only played six games....
The second half of the district schedule begins this week for District 21-3A. The Orangefield Bobcats solidified its position at the top of the district standings with two decisive wins at Paul Cormier Field last week. Orangefield clobbered the Kountze Lions 11-1 in five innings on the final Tuesday of March. Kaleb Menard pitched four innings for the win allowing just one hit and striking out five Lions. Colton Myers threw the final inning to close out the Bobcat victory. Cale...
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...
This begins the third week of district action for the teams in District 19-4A. The Bridge City Cardinals have won their first four games to claim first place in the standings. Bridge City has swept its first two district opponents starting with taking two from the Silsbee Tigers on March 12 and March 16. Last week the Cardinals grabbed two from their cross-county rivals the Little Cypress Mauriceville Bears. The Cardinals and the Bears faced off on Tuesday, March 19, at Chuck...
The first half of district games concluded on Tuesday, March 26, in District 19-4A, and the Bridge City Cardinals are in first place winning all their games played so far in district. The battle of unbeaten teams played out at the Bridge City softball field on Tuesday, March 19, only the hometown Cardinals were undefeated when the contest was over. The Bridge City Cardinals improved to 4-0 in district with the 3-0 win over the Lumberton Lady Raiders. The loss was the first in...
Baseball action in District 19-4A started Tuesday, March 12. The Bridge City Cardinals got a good jump in the district winning both games with the Silsbee Tigers. On Tuesday the Cardinals rallied for a 4-3 win scoring two runs in the sixth inning at Silsbee. The pair of runs came home on back to back base on balls with the bases loaded. Bridge City got good pitching from four Cardinal hurlers who allowed just one earned run. Max Pachar threw three solid innings, Owen Tucker we...
A huge congratulations going out to D'Ziya Evans for her 3rd place finish at the THSWPA State Championship today. She Personal Recorded all three lifts with Squat 365 lbs, Bench Press 185l bs and Dead Lift 370 lbs. This is our best Mustang finish since 2016, congratulations D'Ziya, way to represent....
Texas saltwater anglers will once again see the limits change on speckled trout starting March 23rd after the Texas Parks and Wildlife commission passed the new proposal. In what has been described as an attempt to help the dwindling population of specks after the last 2 major freezes the commission approved a 3 fish limit with a 15” to 20” slot. The commission also approved keeping one fish over 30” as part of the daily limit. The new limit takes the place of the curre...
Two weeks into the district softball schedule the Bridge City Cardinals have moved to the top of the District 19-4A standings. The Cardinals were undefeated in their first three district games. Bridge City opened with shutouts by pitcher Carson Fall against Silsbee and Little Cypress Mauriceville during the first week of the district schedule. The only district game scheduled for last week was actually played on Monday, March 18, because of rain on the previous Friday....
Bridge City had a defending state champion in girls powerlifting competing for back to back titles on Friday, March 15. Hallie Bearden actually lifted the same amount of weight as her closest competitor in the event, but Hallie had to settle for second place because she had a body weight one pound heavier than her opponent. Bearden a junior at Bridge City High School competed in the 123-pound weight class at the competition on Friday. Last year she won the 114-pound weight...
Next week marks the annual hiatus from school that kids of all ages look for once the Christmas holidays are over, spring break is here! During this week off from the rigorous demands of reading, writing, and arithmetic you can rest assured that a cry will rise up from the masses that there is nothing “fun” to do. Video games have long been mastered and challenges are getting more difficult to come by every day, give your student a first hand look at some real life they may...
All-District selections have been released by the District 19-4A basketball coaches. The Bridge City Cardinals, the Little Cypress Mauriceville Bears, and the West Orange-Stark Mustangs all had players honored by being chosen All-District. Two of the Bridge City Cardinals received special recognition. Aiden Gutierrez was named co-Offensive MVP and Lincoln Breaux was selected as co-Defensive MVP. Alantheon Winn of the Little Cypress Mauriceville Bears was the other...
The Orange County Classic baseball tournament was held at Little Cypress Mauriceville High School's Don Gibbens Field on March 7-9. Five teams competed including the Little Cypress Mauriceville Bears, the West Orange-Stark Mustangs, and the Vidor Pirates from Orange County all of which are in District 19-4A. The Mustangs opened the tournament on Thursday against the Liberty Panthers. West Orange-Stark scored two runs in the second getting a bunt single from Cortez Robertson...
Local softball teams have entered district action and one of the first games pitted two of the favorites in the local Class 4A district the Bridge City Cardinals against the Little Cypress Mauriceville Lady Bears. The Cardinals got the victory at home 4-0 behind the no hit pitching of ace Carson Fall on Friday, March 8. Fall was fantastic in the circle yielding only one walk to Tessa Erickson in the second inning while striking out 18 Lady Bears. In the fourth inning Fall stru...
Local high school boy golfers competed last week at the Sunset Grove Country Club in Orange during the Bridge City Invitational. Two teams from Bridge City competed, as did one from Little Cypress Mauriceville, and the team from Orangefield did quite well. The boys from Orangefield finished in third place behind the Port Neches-Groves and the Beaumont Kelly teams. Winning his second gold medal of the season for shooting the low score of 71 was Lincoln Parks of Orangefield. Par...
You ever wonder what a 64 pack of Crayola crayons, 31 flavors of ice cream at Baskin Robbins, or bags of assorted candy have in common? The answer is they offer something for everyone because we all don’t have the same taste. If everyone did things exactly like everyone else then life would be ridiculously boring and mundane. It’s choices and options that give each individual the opportunity to succeed and sometimes those options and choices are a little different than wha...
The Orangefield Bobcats completed a great basketball season with a 33-6 record and reaching the third round of the state playoffs. Orangefield was eliminated by Hitchcock which has advanced to the final four in Austin this weekend. Seven Bobcats were honored as All-District selections for District 21-3A. Jaden Scales was named the Offensive Player of the Year, and Zane Wrinkle was selected the Defensive Player of the Year. Chosen to the First Team was Kane Smith. Kadyn Rucker...
The annual Certa-Bearden WOS Classic was held February 29 through March 2 at West Orange-Stark. This year the baseball tournament was held in conjunction with a tournament by Kelly Catholic High School in Beaumont with several of the 12 teams involved playing at both schools over the weekend. Three local teams played four games over the three days. Little Cypress Mauriceville, Orangefield, and West Orange-Stark took part in the combined tournaments. The Little Cypress Mauricev...
Girl softball tournaments are leading up to the start of district action for the local high school teams. Orangefield actually played its first district game already last week. The Orangefield Lady Bobcats fell to the Kountze Lionettes 3-1 in the District 22-3A opener on Tuesday night, February 27. Pitcher Abigail Curphey took the loss for Orangefield despite giving up just 2 earned runs on 5 hits and 2 walks. Haylee Spears had the lone rbi and Abby Broussard scored the only...
Little Cypress Mauriceville participated in the Kountze Tennis Tournament on Friday, March 1. Two of the LCM team members brought home medals from the tournament. Carson Forester won the first place gold medal in the boys singles division. In the girls singles division Lucia Montoto won the third place bronze medal. Local high school boys golf teams traveled to the Babe Zaharias Golf Course in Port Arthur on Wednesday, February 28, to compete in the Nederland Invitational....
Steady progress is being made in the rebuilding of the West Orange-Stark baseball program back to what it was less than a decade ago. More improvement is expected this year from the Mustang diamond devotees. Last year in preseason West Orange-Stark won several games in tournament action. The Mustangs were winless though in the very competitive District 19-4A against teams filled with players that participate in select baseball leagues throughout the year. "We're making...
The Little Cypress Mauriceville Bears were young in 2023 and just missed making the playoffs. With another year under their belts the Bears are prepared to make a run at the post season this campaign. The opportunity to make the playoffs last year for LCM came down to the last week of district action as the Bears needed to sweep their two games with the Silsbee Tigers. That did not happen so Little Cypress Mauriceville stayed home when the post season began. Bears' Coach...
Baseball has been very good at Orangefield the last several years. The prospects are high for another banner year on the diamond for the Bobcats this season. In 2023 Orangefield played a tough non-district schedule that got the Bobcats ready for district which carried over into the playoffs. At one stretch the Bobcats won a remarkable 23 games in a row. Coach Tim Erickson reflected on the performance of his Bobcats last year. "That win streak was big for our program. We made...
