Sports

By Capt. Bill Watkins

Two weeks ago, my son William, called me and invited me to go on a one morning bass fishing trip on San Rayburn. When the call came, I was on Sabine lake with three guests catching speckled trout, red fish, and a few flounders. I hardily accepted the invite as I do not get a lot of time to bass fish anymore, especially around spawning time. That day was raw, with a stiff east by northeast wind blowing but the catching was pretty good anyway. By the time, we left the bay at 2:00 pm the wind had switched to the southeast and warmed considerably.

The next morning at dawn, we launched my son’s bass boat at Caney Creek Park on Sam Rayburn. As we idled away from the ramp the thought came to me about how really great it is to be able to fish such a great fishery as Sabine Lake one day and then be able to fish one of our great inland reservoirs the next. You have got to love Southeast Texas.

Coach Corey Parson announced that seven Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School tennis players advanced to the quarterfinal round Friday, following the recent Vidor Invitational Tournament. 

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Little Cypress-Mauriceville Boys Powerlifting took First Place with a total of 60 points at the Bear Invitational Meet on Thursday, February 9. This was their third meet of the season and third time to claim the top spot. The Girls placed Fourth in team standings with 21 points. Individual standings for the boys include first place winners Hunter Angelo - 148 weight class, 1145 lb. total; Victor Davila - 165 weight class, 1120 total; Ethan McKay - 181 weight class, 1165 total; Alex Reed - 198 weight class 1275 total; Trent Brown - 220 weight class 1115 total; Colt LeBleu – 275 weight class, 1430 total; and Jeremiah Armstrong – super heavy weight, 1775 total.

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By Randall Luker

The Vidor Pirate basketball team claimed their third win in four outings and third district win Tuesday, topping Lumberton 54-42.

Coach Nate Smith said, ”We came out on fire and jumped out to a 10-0 lead and never looked back. We led 20-5 after one quarter and led by 19 going to the fourth.”

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By Capt. Bill Watkins 

Our outfitter left in a hurry and his taillights disappeared quickly in the falling snow. Why not? He had already been paid and there were other hunters to pull out of the blizzard. We were now on our own. My friend Howard Simon had hunted in the high Rockies a couple of times and was an incredibly accomplished outdoorsman so I wasn’t too concerned about getting back out of the mountains. What did bother me was that we were in a two wheel drive van with no snow tires and no chains. I had been around some in ice and snow driving conditions and knew that the forestry road would present some challenges. We were soon to find out that we were totally unprepared for what we had to face. Being snowed in in the mountains in a drop camp was tame in comparison to what was coming next.

After three meets, several Pirate powerlifters have already qualified to compete in the Girls Regional Championship meet to be held February 23 at Beaumont West Brook and Boys Regional will be at Katy Taylor on March 4th.

Based on their performance in the three meets held so far, VHS Powerlifting coach Rodney Burks said Lady Pirates Taylor Killgo, Jenna Hoffmann, Hope Pridgen, and Hayley Kinard had qualified.

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The Golden Triangle Seminoles, our local semipro football team will open their 2017 season this Saturday at the Vidor Junior High School stadium as they take on the North Houston Titans at 7 p.m.

The Texas United Football Association (TUFA) is a minor professional football league whose stated purpose is to enhance the sport by returning football to its roots, including fostering a wide-open style of play and faster-paced action while encouraging player individuality to emerge.

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While flipping the pages of the current issue of the American Hunter magazine I came across a good article about hiring hunting guides/outfitters. As I read I was translated in my mind back to 1983 when I and two of my friends hired an outfitter to take us to a drop camp near the east fork of the San Juan River in southern Colorado. I had no idea of what to expect and would not have ventured on such a trip but one of my friends, Howard Simon, had been the previous year with the same outfitter. The trip that year had been successful and Howard had taken a nice bull elk. He invited me to go along and on the strength of Howard’s word I signed on for the trip and put in my deposit.

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Bear Iron lifters brought home six First Place competitors from the Hamshire-Fannett meet on Thursday, February 2. Little Cypress- Mauriceville senior, Jeremiah Armstrong squatted an impressive 720 lbs. in the super heavy weight class, with a combined total of 1675 pounds for the event.

The Boys Team again took First Place in the meet. Other boys team members who placed were Hunter Angelo – First with a total of 1120 lbs. in the 148 Class, Colt LeBleu – First with 1375 lbs. in the 275 Class, Victor Davila – Second with 1155 lbs.

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By Randall Luker

Hard play and improved shooting helped the varsity Pirates tame the Livingston Lions at home Friday by a score of 60- 50.“

Our kids played extremely hard and left it all on the court. We shot 50 percent from the field and scored 42 points in the paint, which was huge,” said Coach Nate Smith.

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