Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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It doesn’t make any difference if you’re a hunter or a fisherman because this time of the year has something for everyone and it’s all good. The brief cool down from near triple digit heat has both hunters and fishermen alike thinking of what’s in store for the coming weeks. The very first hint of hunting season starts with teal and dove season in September and if you look at the calendar that’s not too far off. Hunters of all shapes and sizes flock to the field to take advant...
It's been a long time since the Los Angeles Rams won the Super Bowl, but tomorrow marks the start of "real games" in the National Football League. Nine teams will be starting new quarterbacks this weekend when the 2022 NFL launches its new season. Longtime starters Russell Wilson (Seattle), Matt Ryan (Atlanta) and Ben Roethlisberger (Pittsburgh) won't be with the same team they quarterbacked with Wilson traded to the Denver Broncos, Ryan to the Indianapolis Colts and...
Games This Weekend WEST ORANGE-STARK over LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE—Both the Mustangs and the Battlin’ Bears are coming off impressive opening season wins last week and are chomping at the bit for this annual grudge match which will be played tomorrow at Bridge City High School’s gridiron because LCM’s new field isn’t quite ready yet. Both teams got to the fourth-round of the playoffs last year, so things look pretty equal. But I like defense again this week and am going...
The Orangefield Lady Bobcats hosted bracket play in their Lady Bobcat Volleyball Tournament this past weekend Thursday and Saturday. The Lady Bobcats won the Orange Bracket of the tournament while the Orangefield Junior Varsity grabbed second place in the White Bracket of the tournament. From Thursday's pool play advancing to the Orange Bracket was Hamshire-Fannett, Buna, Anahuac, and Orangefield. The following teams Evadale, Deweyville, Orangefield JV, and West Orange-Stark...
Tell the truth, you know that at the end of last hunting season you cleaned up your favorite bird gun, stored it away and haven't touched it since. Don't be embarrassed because you are not alone, as a matter of fact you are in the great majority of hunters. Year in and year out all too many hunters never practice near enough to keep their shooting skills sharp, as a matter most never practice. Every year you get a big push of hunters shooting rifles before deer season,...
I’ve been following high school football for a newspaper since my days of wearing a crew cut at McNeese State in Lake Charles. And that’s a LONG time ago. But the start of another season is as exciting to me as it was back in 1960 when I was working weekends at the Lake Charles American Press, mainly taking results of the many high school games and writing a couple of paragraphs about each one. I can even remember my first week of covering high school football for the Orange L...
This is Week One of the Texas high school football season. Two local teams kick off the year with a great rivalry game between the Orangefield Bobcats and the Bridge City Cardinals. Orangefield completed its last week of preparation before the start of the season with a scrimmage against the Silsbee Tigers. The Bobcats had a tough battle going against the Tigers who come into the new season ranked in the top ten of a higher classification than Orangefield. Coach Josh Smalley...
KOUNTZE, Texas, August 23,2022 – Big Thicket National Preserve Superintendent Wayne Prokopetz announced today that the preserve will start issuing this season’s free hunting permits on Thursday, September 1, 2022. Available 2022/2023 permits will be issued until February 27,2023 . Permits will be issued at the preserve visitor center from 9 am until 5 pm daily. The visitor center is located 8 miles north of Kountze at the intersection of US 69 and FM 420 at 6102 FM 420 Roa...
Games This Weekend WEST ORANGE-STARK over NEDERLAND—I missed this pick last year when I didn’t figure in the monsoon that canceled the game in the second half with the Mustangs slightly behind on the scoreboard. This is always a tough game for WO-S, but I’m picking the Mustangs for two reasons: 1. Their rock-ribbed defense 2. Their homefield advantage. ‘Nuff said!! LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE over HARDIN-JEFFERSON—The Battlin’ Bears had a better season than predicted i...
The second season for Coach Cody McGuire at Bridge City has entered Week One of the football season. McGuire and his Cardinals play their cross-county rival the Orangefield Bobcats in the first game of the season. A final preparation for the opening of the season was to be a scrimmage with the Woodville Eagles last week. The weather was rainy and postponed the start of the scrimmage for two hours, and the Cardinals did not handle the delay as well as the Eagles when it...
The 2022 season marks the beginning of a new era in West Orange-Stark football. Hiawatha Hickman will have his first game as the head coach of the Mustangs this Friday night. Hickman led the Mustangs through their final preparations for the upcoming season with a scrimmage last week against the Vidor Pirates. This has been a longtime rivalry for the two teams which have been district opponents in their past histories. West Orange-Stark played very well with the Mustang...
The expectations are high for the start of the football season at Little Cypress-Mauriceville. The Bears are the defending co-district champions, and they are getting a new football field to play on this year. The installation of the artificial turf at Battlin' Bear Stadium is still in progress but the season does kick off on Thursday for Little Cypress-Mauriceville. Coach Eric Peevey is excited about the start of a new season for his Bears. A final preparation for the Bears...
The easy north wind has already begun to work magic on local hunters as they eagerly await the September 1 opener of dove season here in Texas. North Zone hunters will enjoy a few weeks of hunting before those of us south of IH-10 get into the mix of things. In years past the days leading up to the opener have been filled with some goofy weather that always seems to make an appearance before the season starts. For the past several seasons there have been some heavy rains wash...
The regular season for high school football begins in another week. The Orangefield Bobcats have their final tune up with their second scrimmage to be played on Thursday. In their first scrimmage last week Orangefield played the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears a team which is two classifications higher than the Bobcats. Coach Josh Smalley of Orangefield said it was a good controlled scrimmage for his Bobcats. Overall, Smalley thought the Bobcats performed well with some...
Another season for the winningest high school football team in Texas is a little more than a week away. Final preparations by the West Orange-Stark Mustangs for the new season will continue this week to be ready for the season opener on August 26. Coach Hiawatha Hickman was pleased with the hustle and the running to the ball by the Mustangs in their scrimmage last week against the Woodville Eagles. The game plan was very simple for West Orange-Stark, very vanilla in the words...
The high school football season is just two weeks away, and Little Cypress-Mauriceville is predicted to have a good year. The Bears are picked fifteenth in the state in Class 4-A, Division I and near the top of their district standings. The Bears had a great scrimmage last week to prepare them for the upcoming regular season. LCM played the Orangefield Bobcats in a controlled scrimmage that was very physical. Bears' Coach Eric Peevey thought his team played well in the...
This is the time of the year that I dislike the most. First of all, the middle of August has always been referred to as “The Dog Days of Summer.” But more importantly, this is the time that the National Football League stages its exhibition football season. Fans fill the stadiums eager to see a football game, even if it’s not what you paid a premium price to see. Many exhibition game tickets are included in the season ticket packet. I used to use these preseason games to fo...
The Bridge City Cardinals have a final scrimmage in preparation for the start of the new football season. The Cardinals will scrimmage the Woodville Eagles this week. Bridge City had its first scrimmage last week against the Vidor Pirates. This scrimmage was actually a mock four quarter simulated game. Coach Cody McGuire was pleased overall with the job done by the Cardinals in the scrimmage. There were 75 plays on defense so it gave Bridge City a good work out against the...
The Orangefield Lady Bobcats won a thrilling five set match with Hamshire-Fannett last Friday on the road. The Lady Bobcats won the first two games before dropping the next two to the Lady Longhorns and having to clinch the victory by winning the fifth set. Orangefield won 26-24 and 25-17 and needed just one more win to sow-up the match. Hamshire-Fannett rallied taking game three 25-21 and the fourth game 26-24. The Lady Bobcats played a solid deciding game winning 15-5 for...
A week of practices has gone well for the Orangefield Bobcats in preparation for the new football season. This is the start of the eleventh year under Josh Smalley as the head football coach at Orangefield and the kids are buying into the system established by Smalley at the school. The effort by the players has been great and they have been very coachable, but there is still a lot of learning to be done especially by the younger Bobcats. "A lot of young kids especially up...
The winningest program in Texas high school football begins another season this month. The West Orange-Stark Mustangs have won over eighty percent of their games since the school was created in the late 1970s, and there is no plan to stop winning in the near future. Hiawatha Hickman is the new head football coach at West Orange-Stark after serving since 2016 as the defensive line coach and the defensive coordinator under longtime Mustang coach Cornel Thompson. Hickman...
Build it and they will come is a familiar saying that could be adopted by the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears football team. A new artificial turf field is being installed at Battlin' Bear Stadium but will not be completed in time for the start of the Bears' football season at the end of August. The field of green being under construction has forced the Bears and Coach Eric Peevey to work out on the practice field located behind the Don Gibbens baseball field. It was a good...
The Bridge City Cardinals came to the first week of practices for the football season ready to work and improve themselves. The Cardinals will strive to be their best as the season progresses. Coach Cody McGuire said after a slow start on the first day the kids rocked and rolled during the rest of the week's practices. "They came out and were physical and were aggressive and worked real hard the first week," McGuire reported. Although the weather may not have been ideal,...
For the majority of upper coast anglers the thought of actually seeing a fish before you cast to it is more of a foreign concept than going to a restaurant that doesn't serve sweet tea, it's just not natural. In the minds of most anglers who fish with me the thought of water with clarity good enough to see fish in is usually reserved for venues farther south or some Carribean island where the white sand is nearly blinding, not the upper coast of Texas or Louisiana. Now don't g...
The Houston Astros and New York Yankees have had the best win-loss percentage in major league baseball since April, especially in the American League, where they both made trades last week that would improve their chances of playing in the World Series when October rolls around. The Astros have been doing most of their winning in the first four months with their pitching—both starting and relieving—while the Yankees have been outscoring their opponents with their big bat...
