Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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“You remember when….” is a question that I am hearing all too often these days, especially when I am talking to water fowlers. Less than a decade ago our area marshes were a haven for all types of migratory birds, world class wing shooting at its best. The skies were filled with ducks and geese and the local hospitality and great Cajun cuisine made this part of the world a magnet for hunters from all around the globe. Well the food and hospitality are still here but the birds...
Games This Weekend WEST ORANGE-STARK over HARDIN-JEFFERSON—It’s always good when you start district play with the area’s strongest team and end it with the district’s weakest team, especially when it means a trip to the state playoffs. LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE over HUFFMAN-HARGRAVE—The Battlin’ Bears need a solid victory in the final game of the regular season and head into the playoffs on a winning note. That should happen Friday night at Battlin’ Bear Stadium. BRIDGE CITY...
The first two games of the 2022 World Series went the opposite way of what was supposed to happen in a two-game series. Ordinarily, it is the visiting team that hopes to leave town with a 50-50 split. But in last weekend’s two games it was the Houston Astros who hoped to win Game Two, so they could split the series. The Phillies returned home invigorated with the split. The three-game series that ends tonight in Philadelphia could very well spell the end of the 2022 World S...
The district schedule comes to a conclusion on Friday for the West Orange-Stark Mustangs. This will be a final preparation for the post season during which the Mustangs hope to make a run. Last week was the bye for West Orange-Stark. It gave the Mustangs the opportunity to get back to the basics and the fundamentals of the game of football. Coach Hiawatha Hickman provided the details of the Mustangs’ workouts during the bye week. “We worked on some stuff that we normally wor...
The opportunity to repeat as district champions is gone for the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears after last week’s loss. The Bears are now playing to secure third place in their district and gain some momentum heading into the post season. The Bears were hoping for a win last week at Lumberton that would have moved them into a three-way tie for first place with the Raiders and the Vidor Pirates. The Raiders dominated LCM to remain undefeated and in sole possession of first p...
The Orangefield Bobcats remain undefeated in district with one game to play in the regular season. A Bobcat win on Friday will clinch the district championship for them. Last Thursday Orangefield played at home and clobbered the Kirbyville Wildcats 58-0 for the Bobcats fifth straight win. The Orangefield defense held the Wildcats to just over one hundred total yards while the Bobcats rolled up 451 yards of offense all on the ground thanks to a great job by the offensive line....
The Bridge City Cardinals play their final game of the football season on Friday. The Cardinals would love to finish their year on a winning note. It has been a difficult year for the football team in Bridge City. After a win in Week 2 of the season the Cardinals have lost seven straight games including a shutout last week to the state ranked Silsbee Tigers. Bridge City coach Cody McGuire was proud of his Cardinals who played hard against an excellent Silsbee team. "They're...
One of perhaps the most anticipated hunting days of the year is upon us; Saturday morning starts off the annual youth hunting weekend in Texas. Young hunters and adults alike look forward to this very special weekend for a variety of reasons. For many young hunters this is their opportunity to take center stage and reap the benefits of all the practice and preparation they have been through during the off season. The trips to the range, the work at the hunting lease, or...
Games This Weekend LUMBERTON over LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE —The Battlin’ Bears are coming down to the nitty-gritty of the 2022 regular season and will position themselves for the state playoffs that begin in two weeks. The Raiders have been the surprise team of the area, like LCM was last season. The momentum for the post-season could begin Friday with an upset victory at Lumberton. SILSBEE over BRIDGE CITY—This will be Silsbee’s final home game this season and the Tigers w...
When I was growing up in Schenectady, New York, the Philadelphia Phillies were my favorite major league baseball team. I didn't like the three teams in New York State-those high-strung New York Yankees, the Brooklyn Dodgers or the New York Giants. The reason I liked the Phillies was because the minor league team in my hometown-the Schenectady Blue Jays-was a farm team (that's what the minor league teams were called then) of the Philadelphia Phillies. Several former Blue Jays...
Bridge City celebrated homecoming on Friday night. The visiting Hardin-Jefferson Hawks celebrated their 21-7 victory which was their first win of the season by defeating the Cardinals at Larry Ward Stadium. In a special pregame ceremony Bridge City Cardinal football legend the late Steve Worster was honored. Worster's two children Scott Worster and Erin Worster Stephens were honored with framed Cardinal jerseys with the number 30 on them. That was Worster's number when he play...
The bye week for a football team is always useful to rest and re-cooperate from injuries. The timing of a bye can be inconvenient at times when it breaks a team's momentum created by consecutive victories. That is the concern for the Orangefield Bobcats who won four straight games to start their district schedule before their bye last week. The Bobcats won their last two games by a combined 107 to 7 margin. Coach Josh Smalley is hopeful Orangefield will continue to perform...
To say this has not been a typical football season for West Orange-Stark would be stating the obvious. The Mustangs have their bye this week in preparation for the regular season finale in two weeks. West Orange-Stark entered this year with the highest winning percentage of any program in Texas high school football. The Mustangs have won over eighty percent of their games since the school began in the late 1970s and annually go several rounds deep into the post season. Last...
The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Lady Bears celebrated Senior Night on Tuesday, October 18, with another volleyball win. Senior Lady Bears Kenna Peveto, Alyssa Brown, Savannah Crabtree, Chrissy Joseph, Mariah Ammons, Hallie Maddox, and Paola Robles who was injured early in the season were honored in their last home game at the Dr. Pauline Colburn Hargrove Gymnasium. The Lady Bears defeated the Jasper Lady Bulldogs in straight sets. LCM dominated Jasper in all three sets. The...
The Bridge City Lady Cardinals continued to fly high atop the district volleyball standings. The Lady Cardinals are undefeated in district play 11-0 through last week. On Tuesday, October 18, Bridge City defeated the Lumberton Lady Raiders in three sets and led practically from start to finish in all three sets. The scores reflected the dominance of the Lady Cardinals 25-18, 25-18, and 25-17 in the match. Demi Carter and Cambree LaComb provided strong serving in the first...
The Orangefield Lady Bobcats battled the Buna Lady Cougars on Tuesday, October 18, in an exciting five-set volleyball contest. Orangefield won the match to improve its record to 9-3 in district play. The Lady Cougars playing at home won the opening set 25-18 before Orangefield took the next two sets 25-23 and 25-18 to take the lead in the match. Buna rebounded to grab the fourth set 25-20 forcing a fifth set. The Lady Bobcats captured the deciding set 15-10 to gain the...
Bridge City has had a difficult football season. The Cardinals have lost a lot of their starters to injury, and they have lost all but one game this year with two more still to play. Last week was the district game the Cardinals hoped to win against Hardin-Jefferson which had not won a district game in two seasons. The Hawks broke three medium length passes into long touchdowns to gain their first win of this season 21-7 spoiling the homecoming for Bridge City. A couple of...
The two preseason favorites in District 10-4A Division I play on Friday night. The winner of the game between the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears and the Lumberton Raiders will take a big step to winning the district championship. Little Cypress-Mauriceville is playing their best football the last two weeks with impressive district wins over Livingston and Splendora. The Bears blasted Splendora last Friday night 55-9 at Battlin' Bear Stadium. Within a couple of days of that...
The sun has just broken the horizon to illuminate a relatively smooth lake surface, the temperatures are mild and the forecast is in the anglers favor. A short boat ride into the wide open expanse of Sabine is stopped so one of the anglers in the boat can glass the area with a pair of binoculars in hopes of finding a set of working birds. The glassing pays off and the boat of hopeful anglers speed off in the direction of the birds with visions of speckled trout busting shrimp...
Yordan Alvarez carried the Houston Astros on his back for the three-game sweep over the pesky Seattle Mariners in the ALDS last week. Or did he??? No one will deny that the two mammoth home runs Alvarez hit in Games One and Two carried to Astros to 9-8 and 4-2 triumphs after they were trailing late in both games. But there is a player who wasn’t even around during last year’s trip to the World Series—rookie shortstop Jeremy Pena. Pena was rushed into service at the major leagu...
Games This Weekend JASPER over WEST ORANGE-STARK—The Bulldogs have an unblemished record in District 9-4A while the Mustangs are struggling just to have a possible shot at the state playoffs as the No. 4 seed. This situation will probably be intact when this contest concludes in the Piney Woods Friday night. LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE over SPLENDORA—The Battlin’ Bears faced a high-scoring Livingston Lions team last week and shut them down methodically. They had better not l...
West Orange-Stark needed a win to even its record on the season and in district. The Mustangs won big 47-0 over the Bridge City Cardinals at Dan R. Hooks Stadium on Friday night. It has been rare indeed for the Mustangs (4-4, 2-2) to be playing only .500 this late in the season and in the district. Bridge City (1-6, 0-3) hung close for a quarter before two touchdowns in the last minute of the first half blew the game open for West Orange-Stark. The Mustangs scored on their...
The Bridge City Cardinals stayed unbeaten in district action but they had a tough match on Friday, October 14. The Lady Cardinals defeated the Vidor Lady Pirates in five sets at Vidor. The Lady Pirates won the first set 25-19 to grab the early lead. The Lady Cardinals rebounded and won the next two sets 25-17 and 25-18. Vidor forced a fifth set with a 25-23 win in the fourth set. Bridge City played a solid final set winning it 15-7 to capture the match. Coach Savanah DeLuna ad...
The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Lady Bears defeated the Vidor Lady Pirates in four sets on Tuesday, October 11, at the Dr. Pauline Colburn Hargrove Gymnasium. The win raised the Lady Bears record to 6-2 in district. LCM won the first two sets 25-21 and 25-19. The Lady Pirates played a very strong third set and won 25-8 over the Lady Bears. The fourth set was the tightest of the match with the Lady Bears taking it 25-22 for the win. Leaders for the Lady Bears were Hallie Maddox...
The Orangefield Lady Bobcats avenged an earlier loss to the East Chambers Lady Bucs with a four set win on Tuesday, October 11. The Lady Bobcats have won their last six straight matches. East Chambers won the opening set taking the early momentum taking an 11-5 lead. The Lady Bucs closed out the set 25-15 over Orangefield. The second set was knotted at 6-6 before Orangefield took a 9-7 lead. The Lady Bobcats stretched their advantage to 15-9 before the Lady Bucs pulled to with...
