Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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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...
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...
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 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...
West Orange-Stark enjoyed a big win last week. It is imperative the Mustangs follow up that game with a victory this week against one of the favorites in the district. The Mustangs defeated the Bridge City Cardinals 47-0 to even their record on the season at 4-4 and in district at 2-2. WOS dominated that game taking advantage of turnovers to build an insurmountable lead by halftime. Coach Hiawatha Hickman was happy with the points put up by the offense and was pleased with...
Little Cypress-Mauriceville has a winning record entering Week 9 of the high school football season. The Bears though will be looking for their first back-to-back wins this Friday night. Last Friday LCM travelled to Livingston to play the Lions who had won three straight games including a rout of district opponent Huffman. The Bears snapped the Lions winning streak to even both teams record to 1-1 in district. Coach Eric Peevey felt Little Cypress-Mauriceville played overall...
Injuries have taken their toll on the Bridge City Cardinals this season. The Cardinals will be looking for their first district win this Friday night. Last week Bridge City played West Orange-Stark close until late in the second quarter. Two late touchdowns just before half time by the Mustangs blew the game open resulting in another defeat for the Cardinals. Coach Cody McGuire of Bridge City observed the Cardinals played hard in the game at West Orange-Stark. "Our kids came...
The Orangefield Bobcats have their bye this week. The Bobcats are undefeated in their four district games sitting in first place. Last week was another blowout win for Orangefield. The Bobcats clawed the Hardin Hornets 61-7 after rolling up a forty point-lead in the first half for the second game in a row. Running backs Cameron Dischler and Gavin Perry-Koci had big nights again for Orangefield. With such a big lead both Dischler and Perry-Koci got few carries in the second...
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...
The district schedule has entered the midway point for the Bridge City Cardinals. They will be looking for their first win in district on Friday. Last week Bridge City played hard but lost to the Jasper Bulldogs. This week the Cardinals will play cross-county opponent the West Orange-Stark Mustangs. Cardinal Coach Cody McGuire analyzed his team's play through three games in the district. "Our defensive line is playing real well. Bryce Linder, a sophomore, was our defensive...
The Orangefield Bobcats won big on their homecoming last week. This Friday the Bobcats travel to the Hornets' nest in Hardin to play a very good team. The coaches at Orangefield were concerned about the Bobcats focusing on the game against the Tarkington Longhorns and not on homecoming activities, but the players responded well rolling up a 40-0 lead by halftime. The big advantage allowed many of the Bobcat backups to get some playing time and a running clock the whole second...
The district schedule did not start the way Little Cypress-Mauriceville wanted it to last week. The Bears must go on the road this week to play at Livingston against the Lions who have improved as the season moved into district. Little Cypress-Mauriceville played cross-county rival the Vidor Pirates to start the district. The Bears fell behind the Pirates early, came back to tie the game at the half, before being out played in the second half, and losing by a touchdown. Coach...
Seven games into the season West Orange-Stark is under .500 overall in the middle of district for the first time in many years. The Mustang will try to even their record in district and for the year when they play on Friday at home. The Mustangs opened the scoring last week on their first drive against the Hamshire-Fannett Longhorns. Turnovers, missed tackles on the Longhorns' elusive quarterback, and other missed opportunities allowed Hamshire-Fannett to comeback and beat...
The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears and the Vidor Pirates played their opening district game on Friday night in Vidor. The Pirates played a near flawless second half to beat the Bears 36-29 at Ivan Croak Field. Little Cypress-Mauriceville (3-3, 0-1) used a late rally in the second quarter to tie the game. Vidor (3-3, 1-0) scored its first three possessions of the second half to take a two score lead from which the Bears could not comeback. The Pirates jumped to a 15-0 lead...
The Orangefield Lady Bobcats started the second half of their district volleyball schedule with two wins last week. The victories were against the Kirbyville Lady Wildcats and the Warren Lady Warriors. On Friday the Lady Bobcats won a tight match in four sets over Warren. Orangefield won the opening set 25-20 before dropping the second set 23-25. Two close sets followed with the Lady Bobcats taking both of them 25-22 and 26-24 to capture the match. Mackenzie Haley was a star...
The Bridge City Lady Cardinals continue to rule the roost in district volleyball action. The Lady Cardinals remained undefeated through their first eight matches. Last week Bridge City swept both the Silsbee Lady Tigers on Tuesday and the second place Little Cypress-Mauriceville Lady Bears on Friday. Coach Savanah DeLuna of the Lady Cardinals was surprised by her assistant coaches and the players with a special banner recognizing her more than one hundred wins as a volleyball...
Last night was Homecoming for the Junior High, as the Bobcats took on the Tarkington Longhorns for a three-game battle royale. First to take the field was the 7th and 8th grade combined team, and they were looking to get their first win of the year. Coach Coulter took over the reins of the offense, calling plays for the first time. Lynkon Delcambre was under center for the Bobcats. He led his troops up and down the field, picking up chunks of yardage on the ground, and...
