Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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I really don't like writing about the same subject two columns in a row, but the Houston Astros left me no choice because of a couple of records they set in the last two weeks and the great month they had in June. And with the new and improved (?) Spectrum not able to settle their contractual differences with AT&T, those baseball fans in Southeast Texas and Southwestern Louisiana without a dish were also without the Houston Astros. So that's where I come in. After a very medio...
For many of us the summer months mean different things when it comes to the sport of fishing. There are those who can only dream of clean blue prop wash, flat seas at dawn, and an endless expanse of gulf as far as the eye can see. For others the thought of rushing into the bay amid the sounds of working birds and fleeing bait gets their heart pumping in anticipation of hungry trout and redfish by the bunch. Still others look forward to the quiet solitude of anchoring up on...
When two great major league baseball teams face each other, one leading the majors in pitching and the other MLB's best hitting outfit, I always pick the team with the best pitching. And that's the way the four-game series between New York's Pinstripers and the Houston Astros went last week at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx. The Astros' starting pitching was superlative, completely quieting the mighty bats of the Yankees. Houston's bullpen, which is among the best in the MLB...
The Orangefield Bobcats have been under the leadership of Athletic Director Josh Smalley the last ten years. This upcoming school year will mark the eleventh season for Smalley as their head football coach. For the second time in five years the Bobcats have been lowered in classification because of enrollment numbers in the Orangefield Independent School District. The next two years at least Orangefield will compete in the Class 3A level for all University Interscholastic...
Gulf Coast Region Week of June 15, 2022 Sabine Lake GOOD. 82 degrees. High salinity levels in the lake is bringing in the bait fish. Redfish are in the ICW on rock piles, points and drops 15-25 feet of water biting on live shrimp under a popping cork, and red shad swimbaits with a quarter ounce jigs. Speckled trout are good in ICW and Texaco Islands in 14-25 feet of water using morning glory chartreuse or red shad 4-5 inch swimbaits. Neches river is good for redfish in 25 feet of water. Bessie Heights holding slot redfish...
Very seldom, if ever, will you run into anyone who doesn’t like it when everything happens just right. Fishermen especially love it when they plan for a day on the water and everything from the weather to the fish ends up working in their favor. On occasion those types of trips happen and they help to erase the memory of the bad ones from the past. For many of the folks who fish with me the hope of catching just the right day is a high priority, especially the ones that t...
A new era in West Orange-Stark Mustang football begins this year with Hiawatha Hickman as the athletic director and head football coach. West Orange-Stark has the highest winning percentage in Texas high school football, and Coach Hickman looks to continue the tradition and improve it. Hickman, age 46, grew up in Silsbee where he played and coached football for the Tigers against the Mustangs during three decades. He replaces Cornel Thompson who stepped down as the athletic di...
Now unless you live under a rock in a far dark corner of the planet you probably have some sort of idea about how completely fanatical Texas folks are about football. The summer months in our great state are often looked upon with great enthusiasm as thousands of football players begin their preparations for the fall campaign by first trying to beat the Texas heat. The football term "2 a days" refers to the common practice of working out twice a day, usually once in the...
When I was playing college baseball for McNeese State back in the early 1960's, after the season ended and final exams were over, I would head home to Schenectady, New York and play summer baseball up there. It was a league consisting of college players past and present, some area high school coaches and even some former professional players. It always gave me a good feeling to see some of my old high school teammates. coaches and guys I grew up with. It was something I...
Two more local high school football teams will be playing their home games on artificial turf this upcoming season. The Bridge City Cardinals and the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears will have upgrades to their fields completed before the season starts. H. N. Litton Field at Larry Ward Stadium in Bridge City had its new Matrix Turf with Helix installed near the conclusion of the recent high school baseball season. Workouts for the Cardinals football team and other athletes...
One of the biggest and most intriguing factors that keep fishermen coming back day after day is the process of discovery, figuring out the puzzle so to speak. The task of sifting through all the variables and making sense out of all the factors in order to establish a pattern is what drives many anglers. Unknowingly we all go through the same process every time we fish but without the fanfare. Most of us don't realize we are even doing it, establishing a pattern, but just as...
The Houston Astros have been to three World Series in the last five years, mainly because they had the right players for the job on their rosters. During the entire 2021 season they kept talking to shortstop Carlos Correa trying to find out what it would take for him to sign a contract extension and forget about testing the free-agent marketplace after the season ended. The crafty shortstop dropped a few hints like wanting to be the highest-paid shortstop in the major leagues...
School is out for summer or at least it is for most students. Local high school athletes are working to get in shape for their teams when their seasons start in a couple of months. Coaches and players are working out at high schools in Orange County in preparation for when schools reopen in August. The University Interscholastic League (UIL) which oversees extracurricular activities in the state of Texas allows schools to open their facilities to the athletes during the...
Anybody that thinks pitching isn’t 75 per cent of the game of baseball, needs to re-think their position on the subject—or take a gander at the American League West Division standings where the Houston Astros are leading by 3½ games and sporting a nifty .625 winning percentage with their 30-18 record in games through Sunday. And the ‘Stroes have been doing most of their winning with their mound prowess, because their hitting with runners in scoring position is practi...
Easily one of the most alluring features of Sabine Lake area is the fact that you can catch so many different species of fish in a relatively small area. The brackish water holds both fresh and saltwater fish in good numbers as well as quality. It’s never uncommon to see a stringer of fish include flounder, redfish, speckled trout, and an occasional really nice largemouth bass. The potential for all these fish to be in the same body of water makes each strike that much more e...
The 2022 Babe Didrikson Zaharias Junior Golf Award winners have been announced. Representing Little Cypress-Mauriceville was Montana Dileo as this year's girls 'Player of the Year' and Neely Wozniak as the girls 'Character and Leadership Award' winner. On the boys side, Orangefield's Xander Parks was this year's 'Boys Player of the Year' and younger brother Lincoln Parks was the boy's 'Underclassmen of the Year.' Thie 2022 'Coaches of the Year' were Johnnie Harrell of LCM for...
A successful season came to an end last week for the Orangefield Bobcats baseball team. The China Spring Cougars defeated Orangefield in two games at neutral sites to eliminate the Bobcats from the state baseball playoffs in the Region 3 semifinals. This season was the second in a row for Orangefield to reach the fourth round of the post season. Last year the Bobcats were eliminated by the Rusk Eagles in a one game playoff. The two opponents Orangefield (28-2-1) and China...
Two Bridge City athletes signed on May 18 to play their sports at the college level next season. Deegan King signed to play football at Howard Payne University and Ethan Oceguera signed with Lamar University to play baseball. King was a four-year varsity starter at safety for the Bridge City Cardinals football team and was a starter on the Bridge City baseball team as well. King received recognition to the All-District team for football in both his junior and senior seasons...
"Be careful what you wish for because you just may get it" is what I was often told as a kid. Things that seem like great ideas at the time will often turn out to be unwanted nuisances that are worse than the original option. For months Texas anglers, myself included, cursed the constant high winds and prayed that they would stop in order to make the bay systems mote user friendly. Well, the winds are showing signs of finally slowing down and with that now the temperatures...
Rabid college football fans in the Lone Star State and Alabama are already looking forward to October 8 when Alabama hosts Texas A&M in a Southeastern Conference grudge match at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The Crimson Tide is seeking revenge for 41-38 upset victory by the Aggies last Oct. 9 at Kyle Field in College Station. Although the players on both teams have finished their final exams and are looking forward to some summer fun before the grind begins in two...
The Orangefield Bobcats advanced to the fourth round of the state baseball playoffs last week. The Bobcats used an awesome display of offense to overwhelm the Livingston Lions and sweep their best of three series in two straight games. The series was split between two neutral sites both with artificial turf in case of rain. Game 1 was at Port Neches-Groves with Orangefield serving as the home team and the second game was played in Cleveland with the home team being...
The state playoffs in baseball and softball saw dramatic results for the two remaining Orange County teams last week. Both teams had their playoff series conclude in walk-off fashion. The Orangefield Bobcats advanced to the third round of the baseball post season sweeping the Navasota Rattlers. The Bridge City Lady Cardinals were eliminated in the third round of their softball title chase losing to the defending state champion Liberty Lady Panthers in the third contest of a...
I’m not talking about major league baseball, NFL football, the NBA or NHL playoffs, but there are two events coming up this week that are very significant in their respective sports—the second major golf tournament and the second horse race for the Triple Crown. The PGA Championship begins tomorrow at Southern Hill Country in Tulsa while the Preakness Stakes is set for late Saturday afternoon at Pimlico Race Track in Baltimore. But the major golf tournament will be wit...
Congratulations to Xander & Lincoln Parks on great performances at the state golf tournament this week in Marble Falls, Texas. Xander Parks shot the second lowest round on day 2 (71) to finish the tournament with a two day total of 151, tied for 7th overall. His younger brother Lincoln shot a two day total of 167 as a freshmen to finish the tournament tied for 36th out of the 72 participants....
The slick surface of the lake was disrupted by skipping shrimp and the familiar sound of trout crashing the helpless crustaceans. Each cast with a soft plastic was met the familiar thump of an aggressive fish that thought they were much larger than they really were. One small trout after another continued to hammer the jigs and also continued to be too small. The next logical thought for catching bigger fish was to go to a topwater plug, which usually works well under these...
