Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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The LCM High School fishing team duo of Jacob Longlois and Tanner Stewart put a stranglehold on Toledo Bend this past weekend as they doubled up for victories on both Saturday and Sunday. The unusual circumstances where tournaments were held on back to back days was a result of rescheduled event from January being fished after the regularly scheduled event on Saturday. Longlois and Stewart posted a winning weight of 20.99 pounds on Saturday for their first win of the weekend....
The Orangefield Boys Varsity golf team competed this past weekend, at the regional preview, being held at Sam Houston State's, Bearkat Golf Course. This was a 2 day tournament where the Bobcats would take home 2nd place ,with a team total of 712. Day one, the Bobcats would shoot a team PB for the course, with a total of 368. On day two the Bobcats would improve ,once again shooting another PB for the course, posting a team total of 344. Both the Parks brothers were involved...
A crowd of around 150 invited guests were on hand Saturday afternoon at West Orange-Stark High School for the dedication of the school's brand-new Strength and Conditioning Center. The modern complex, which would make most college athletic directors and head coaches green with envy, was named in honor of retired head coach Cornel Thompson, who not only coached football at the school for nearly 50 years, but also attended the school when it was known as the West Orange High...
The Bridge City Cardinals should rebound from a frustrating season a year ago. The Cardinals will look to regain their perch atop the district standings that they have achieved 26 times in the school's great history of baseball. A third place finish in the district last year can be traced to Bridge City losing five league games in extra innings. Those close losses were tough mentally for the Cardinals, but they learned from it, grew from it, and they still battled to make the...
Little Cypress-Mauriceville has had a history of consistency of playing well in baseball over the last several decades. The Bears are confident that tradition will continue again in the new high school baseball season. The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears hope to improve this season on their performance of last year. The Bears finished fourth in the district and made the post season before being eliminated in the bi-district round of the playoffs. "The outcome wasn't...
If you happen to be one of those people who live their life according to the weatherman you have had a great month so far, especially for February. All things considered the temperatures have been reasonably mild except for a few frosty mornings and we have been noticeably dry for weeks now. Anyone who has spent even a little time on Sabine knows that rain and run off from Toledo Bend are the arch nemesis to the local fishing community. Most of the time the water clarity in Fe...
The Bobcat Tennis team competed in the Vidor Invitational recently. Overall, it was a good showing with four players placing, and 1 medalist. Alayna Dodd finished 2nd in the girls singles division, and took home silver....
Sunday's 23-20 Super Bowl victory by the Los Angeles Rams was a complete reversal of how every playoff game ended for the Cincinnati Bengals. For the last six weeks it was the Bengals that came from behind in the game's closing minutes to win, usually on a clutch field goal by their rookie kicker Evan McPherson at the end of the game or in an overtime period. But on Sunday, it was the Rams who came up with what will be identified as "The Drive" --replacing John Elway's drive i...
The West Orange-Stark Lady Mustangs basketball team season came to a close Wednesday against Silsbee. Afterward, they celebrated the 2022 Seniors pregame. Above are the departing Lady Mustangs basketball seniors; Tashianna Williams, Sidnye Antoine, Aniah Henderson, Naudia Watson, Keyshawn Gray, and Coach Jimmesha Proctor behind them....
Winning is a tradition in girls softball at Little Cypress-Mauriceville. The Lady Bears are expected to be a strong contender for a district championship again this year and to advance in the post season. Last year was another good one for the Lady Bears and Coach Dena Adkins. It was a season Adkins said goodbye to a few girls she had been coaching since they were eight-years-old including her own daughter Lakin. Little Cypress-Mauriceville performed well as a team making it...
The West Orange-Stark Lady Mustangs have a new head coach and are adopting a more positive attitude for the new season. Matt Robertson has been in the West Orange-Cove School District for eight years and also serves as the head coach of the ninth grade football team for West Orange-Stark. In this his first year to lead the Lady Mustangs, Robertson is pumped up. Robertson was excited when he got the news of his new job. "I know this group, this is a special group. We're super...
This year is already being labeled as a rebuilding year for the Orangefield softball program. The Lady Bobcats do have some very talented girls to fill the lineup in their effort to claim another district championship. Last season was probably the most successful in school history for softball at Orangefield. The Lady Bobcats went 22-7 and 11-1 in their district to capture first place against some great district opponents. The playoffs unfortunately led to an early exit for th...
A new season has begun for the Bridge City Lady Cardinals softball team. The outlook is positive with a good group of young ladies returning this year at Bridge City. Last year was a very good one for Bridge City. The Lady Cardinals did not really finish the district where they wanted to, but they did make the playoffs. An early exit was no fault of the Lady Cardinals as they played eventual state champion Liberty in the first round and gave the Lady Panthers as close a...
The West Orange-Stark athletic boosters held their annual Alumni Baseball Game on Saturday, February 12, at Ronnie Anderson Park on the high school campus. The game marked the official unveiling of the wall of baseball legends for the West Orange-Stark Mustangs. The wall honoring 17 Mustangs who were drafted by major league baseball teams is located underneath the stands of Ronnie Anderson Park. All 30 major league baseball teams have their logo painted on baseballs with the...
Every two years the University Interscholastic League conducts a reclassification and realignment event for school districts across the state of Texas, and Thursday's event unveiled what districts our local schools will be designated in for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years. In football, the Orangefield Bobcats return to Class 3A, Division I after spending the previous two years in Class 4, Division II. The remaining Orange County schools will continue to be in Class...
For as long as I can remember the first few weeks of every New Year have been an exciting transitional period for a myriad of reasons. The most obvious is the hope and high expectations that come from turning the calendar page and staring a brand new season in the face and liking what you see. For those of us enamored with the outdoors January and February are a fantastic buffet with endless options from one end of the spectrum to the other. Many of us have just put away our...
If you were a diehard Cincinnati Bengals fan and slipped a ten-dollar bill to one of the Las Vegas sports books back in August to make a preseason bet on your team to win the AFC Conference Championship, today you would be $750 richer. Vegas had the line set at 75-1 on the Bengals winning the right to play in Super Bowl 56. And if you were a real Bengals fan and bet another $10 that your team would win Sunday's Super Bowl, the payout would swell to $1,500 if your team beats...
If a person got to watch only the first halves of Sunday's two NFL Conference Championship games, he would swear the Kansas City Chiefs would be playing the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVI on Feb.13 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. However, both the Chiefs and the 49ers stumbled and lost their respective halftime leads and will now be at home watching the upstart Cincinnati Bengals meet the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl. The Bengals stunned the Chiefs 27-24...
"If you're not cheating you're not trying" is a popular line used by many to describe the overwhelming desire to win at all costs which basically sums up a large portion of the population. Cheating permeates just about every facet of our lives in one way or another. Millions of people right now are trying to figure out how to "legally cheat" on their income taxes so they can balance out their debt with the government. Athletes in all the major sports and beyond are looking...
If the nation's cardiologists knew ahead of time how the four National Football League Divisional Playoff games would be played, they would have instructed all of their patients to watch the Disney Channel or something much less exciting than any of those four games. Three of the four games were decided by field goals as time expired, and the other went into overtime on a Kansas City field goal after Buffalo went ahead 36-33 with a mere 13 seconds left in regulation time....
NFL Conference Championship Games This Weekend AFC KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (14-5) over CINCINNATI BENGALS (12-7) 2:05 P.M. Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. (CBS)-The Chiefs pulled out a 42-36 overtime victory over the Never Say Die Buffalo Bills Sunday night and face the Cinderella Cincinnati Bengals for the right to go to Super Bowl LV. The Chiefs are an early touchdown favorite and should win by at least that. MY PROJECTED SCORE-Kansas City 38-Cincinnati 24. NFC...
Now for most people the thought of chasing fish in the months of January and February seems a little on the foreign side, even crazy at times. The cold water and dreary days don't really motivate the casual angler like bright skies and springtime conditions when everybody wants get on the water. Well the calendar has now become our friend and the good days are outnumbering the bad. If you are thinking about tackling trout or redfish any time soon you need to be properly armed...
NFL Division Playoff Games This Weekend AFC CINCINNATI BENGALS (11-7) over TENNESSEE TITANS (12-5) 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tn. (CBS)—MY PROJECTED SCORE—Cincinnati 26-Tennessee 24 (Upset Special). KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (13-5) over BUFFALO BILLS (12-6) 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. (CBS)—MY PROJECTED SCORE—Kansas City 34-Buffalo 30. NFC GREEN BAY PACKERS (13-4) over SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS (11-7) 7:15 p.m. Saturday at Lambeau...
On Friday I peered at the six "Wild Card" playoff games that were set for last weekend and tried to figure out which home team would be upset. After some research and calculations my answer kept coming up the Dallas Cowboys and perhaps the Los Angeles Rams, too. After all, it was apparent that the Buffalo Bills shouldn't have much trouble subduing the Cinderella New England Patriots, defending world champion Tampa Bay should waltz past the Philadelphia Eagles and their worst...
ATHENS – It didn't take long for the first pair of Legacy Class largemouth bass of the 2022 Toyota ShareLunker season to find their way into angler's boats. It was more than fitting that Tyler Anderson from Austin and Wendell Ramsey, Sr. of San Angelo, landed 14.48 and 14.92 – pounders respectively during week one of the season at O.H. Ivie. Last year, the fishery produced 12 of the 23 Legacy Lunkers during a remarkable 2021 season. Anderson hooked his personal record Legacy L...
