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Lincoln Parks, Todd Trawhon and Xander Parks

Lincoln Parks, Todd Trawhon and Xander Parks

Sports shorts: Golf

Chad Cooper
Thursday, June 2, 2022
The 12th Annual Babe Zaharias Junior Golf High School Award winners were announced last week at 5 Under Golf Center in Beaumont. Each coach submitted their nominations for the Character Leadership Award and Player of the Year.
Brooklyn Bass (Lumberton), Rylee Miller (PN-G), Lauren Locicero (Lumberton), Loren Rodriguez (LC-M), Karlee Hussey (Lumberton) and coach Jason Hopson (Lumberton) will participate in the Christus/Beaumont Bone and Joint All-Star Classic soccer game June 14.

Brooklyn Bass (Lumberton), Rylee Miller (PN-G), Lauren Locicero (Lumberton), Loren Rodriguez (LC-M), Karlee Hussey (Lumberton) and coach Jason Hopson (Lumberton) will participate in the Christus/Beaumont Bone and Joint All-Star Classic soccer game June 14.

Sports Shorts May 12, 2022: Christus All-Star Classic

Chad Cooper
Thursday, May 12, 2022
The Southeast Texas Coaches Association announced May 9 as the return of the annual Christus/Beaumont Bone and Joint All-Star Classic. Now it its seventh year, the Classic features all-star games featuring graduating high school seniors throughout Southeast Texas.
Image courtesy of Lamar Athletics

Image courtesy of Lamar Athletics

LU men’s basketball reigns in new year with COVID struggles

Tim Cohrs
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Lamar University men’s basketball began the new year with COVID and other illnesses affecting their ability to fairly compete in WAC conference play. In a statement by Lamar Athletics on Jan. 20, the LU men’s basketball program “continues to battle through the WAC.
Stacey Lewis Jr.

Stacey Lewis Jr.

Trustees revisit renaming stadium steeped in dispute

Scott McLendon
Thursday, January 20, 2022
After avoiding the agenda for a full year, the proposition of renaming Beaumont Independent School District’s (BISD) Memorial Stadium – a controversy-conjuring conversation – appeared once again on trustees’ list of action items at the board’s Jan. 20 meeting.
'Definitely not the best photo I've ever shot with my cell phone, this is the bobcat I watched eat a dead duck last Saturday morning' - Robert Sloan

'Definitely not the best photo I've ever shot with my cell phone, this is the bobcat I watched eat a dead duck last Saturday morning' - Robert Sloan

Bobcats and pigs save the day on a slow duck hunt

Robert Sloan
Friday, January 14, 2022
With the closing of the regular gun season on deer, some buds and I shifted gears and opted to go duck and pig hunting last weekend. As expected, the duck hunting didn’t work out too well. We made a hunt on a backwater slough off a creek and three of us got two teal and a spoonbill.
Dak Prescott wearing a Nederland Lady Bulldogs hoodie during a press conference

Dak Prescott wearing a Nederland Lady Bulldogs hoodie during a press conference

Sports Shorts: December 30, 2021

Chad Cooper
Thursday, December 30, 2021
Dak Prescott Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was recently seen during an interview wearing a Nederland Lady Bulldogs’ basketball sweatshirt.
Jaylon Guilbeau has created JG March.

Jaylon Guilbeau has created JG March.

Sports Shorts: December 9, 2021

Chad Cooper
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Racquetball Southeast Texas natives David Malain of Beaumont and Glen Childers Jr. of Orangefield won the 2021 Winter Splat Racquetball Tournament held in McKinney, Texas. Malain and Childers won five matches to earn the first-place medals.

Sports shorts: Golf

Chad Cooper
Friday, November 19, 2021
Kyle Fox joined the local hole-in-one club Nov. 14 at Henry Homberg Golf Course when he aced Hole 17. Measuring 115 yards, he used a 9-iron for his memorable shot. Witnesses were Donald Jackson, Alan Null and Al Dean. 
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