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Cats, Cards Both Fight For Key District Win Gabriel Pruett and Van Wade The Orange Leader ORANGEFIELD — There will be a sea of both orange and red tonight at Orangefield’s F.L. McLain Stadium when the Orangefield Bobcats play host to the Bridge City Cardinals in the seventh rendition of the Bayou Bowl. The two close-together communities will be there hooping and hollering for their boys in a game that will have significant consequences in the hotly-contested District 21-3A race. The Cardinals (4-2, 2-1) enter the game tied with Kirbyville (4-2, 2-1) for third place while the Bobcats (3-3, 1-2) sit just one game back with four regular season games left on the schedule. Bridge City leads the series 5-1 with Orangefield’s last victory coming in 2003, 15-14. The Cardinals have claimed the last two games, winning 48-0 in 2004 and 28-0 last year. The winner will receive the Buzzie Gunn Trophy, a trophy that will remain with the winner for the whole school year. The trophy will be presented by the Bridge City-Orangefield Rotary Club immediately after the game. The trophy honors legendary Orange County photographer Buzzie Gunn. Gunn and his father T.L. Gunn were certainly pioneers as far as shooting football action in Orange County for generations. Gunn’s Studio is owned by third generation photographer Chris Gunn, son of Buzzie Gunn. “It’s a great rivalry game,†said BC head coach Claude Tarver. “The communities are so close together and the kids all know one another. Heck, I live in the Bridge City school district but live closer to the Orangefield school. A lot of people in both areas could probably say that. There is so much anticipation for this game every year.†Morrisson knows how much the game means to both communities but a Bobcats’ victory will mean even more to their playoff chances. “To us as a team it is another game and another week,†said Morrison. “The game keeps getting blown up more and more and that is fine for the communities and the media. As a team we have to get back on the winning side of the football and get another district win because you never know what is going to happen down the road.†The Cardinals are coming off an impressive fourth-quarter comeback to topple Jasper 22-14 last week while the Bobcats absorbed a tough 40-26 defeat at the hands of Kirbyville. The Cardinals enter the game averaging 276.3 yards a game on offense while the defense allows 279.5. The Bobcats are piling up 275.2 yards per outing and are allowing 318.5. The game will feature two of the better senior quarterbacks in Southeast Texas in the Cardinals’ Johnny Dishon and the Bobcats’ Brett Ramsey. Dishon, despite battling a nagging ankle injury for much of the season, has darted around for 780 yards and five touchdowns on 125 carries and has completed 19-of-54 passes for 357 yards and two TDs. “Johnny Dishon is an excellent athlete,†said Orangefield coach Blake Morrison. “He has great speed and vision and then has a great supporting cast around him in Cody Mills and Troy Both along with the rest of that offense.†Ramsey, a three-year starter, has completed 40-of-82 passes for 699 yards and eight TDs and leads the squad in rushing with 488 yards and 11 TDs on 97 totes. “The Ramsey kid is having an excellent year and has shown what a tremendous athlete he is,†said Tarver. “He’s played so smart and his decision-making has been superb. The whole Orangefield offense has played well all season. They just don’t turn the ball over much at all and they’ve moved the ball consistently.†Cody Mills also aids the vaunted Cardinal rushing attack with his 415 yards and six TDs on 72 carries. Senior lightning bolt Troy Bolton leads all BC receivers with 13 catches for 197 yards and two TDs. Ramsey has two excellent receivers that he likes to turn to. Corey Sheppard leads all Bobcat receivers with 16 grabs for 299 yards and three TDs while Jared Helton has 12 catches for 211 yards and two TDs. The game certainly has playoff implications. A Bobcat win would draw them even with the Cardinals but a third 21-3A loss would be detrimental to Orangefield’s playoff chances. “Orangefield will certainly be fired up for us, not just because its a rivalry game but it has playoff hopes riding on it, really for both teams,†explained Tarver. “Three losses in this district will be tough to overcome and it may not get you in. The next couple weeks will tell the tale, especially for us with Orangefield this week and Kirbyville next week.†Besides the players on the Bridge City sideline, Morrison has a lot of respect for Tarver and what the fifth-year head Cardinal has done for the red and white. “When you talk about about the Bridge City program and Coach Tarver, that is something you try to model,†said Morrison. “That team has gone through a lot of adversities and him and his staff have done a tremendous job this season.â€

Well, this thread seems to have been hijacked by all the talk about Barbers Hill, but here are my thoughts on Liberty-Cleveland... This year's Panther squad is as weak as I've ever seen Liberty put on the field. Anyone who played the quality Liberty teams of the past few years knew that you'd best have it strapped on tight when you played them. This year, not so much. That being said...Liberty still gets healthy tonight by pounding what evidently is a God-awful Cleveland outfit. It looks like once again Cleveland's best athletes are too busy bouncing a roundball to mess around with a pigskin. Liberty 34 Cleveland 3

and you was just on another thread dogging us about talking trash..grow up man..if you are going to talk the noise then dont cry about when people do it to you

check out the boards dude, its more than one person... And I would love to know how you figured that Nederland fans trash talk more than Vidor fans... There is a difference in having an opinion and trash talking... Opinions are ok, everyone has them. Trash talking, however, makes you look immature and ignorant. I am not singleing out Vidor, you guys do that to yourself by your remarks...I am just sick of Vidor fans being immature and acting like theyve never won a game before, I mean I know it doesnt happen often, but at least act like it does...And by the way, if Nederland sucks so bad this year, then why is it such a big deal for Vidor to beat us????

I hate to tell you this but Nederland isn't much better, next time you lose act like you've lost before, don't make excuses. Not everyone from Vidor is like the people on this board. I have never said anything negative about another team on here unless someone says something about our team first. Your statements prove that you think just because your a MC team everything should go your way, well it doesn't work like that. Fans from Nederland are just as bad, or even worse, than Vidor fans. Every town has good fans and bad fans who like to trash talk so stop singling Vidor out. Learn how to support your team and not run down others or make excuses because one fan from Vidor trash talks. Good luck to all teams tonight. GoDogs you are the worst about being hypocritical. Grow up just a little bit and remember that two wrongs don't make a right but it sure does make both of you look like two incompetant clowns. I have no problem with any fans on here, you take things too personal. Get over it.

I love the fact that the PNGPURPLE and NEDBULLDOG still want to talk about the past!! The past is great and your two teams have been Good teams in the past. But talk about that at your coffe shops or reunions. THIS YEAR TALK ABOUT THIS YEAR!!! Lets face facts both of yall have a loss already and you still have to play three of the better teams in this district. Both of yall could easly end the season with 4 loses!! my advice to all the png fans and the young men coming to LUMBERTON Friday night is BRING IT, BRING IT FAST, BRING IT HARD AND BRING IT FOR FOUR QUARTERS. Because if you dont you will go home and talk about the one that got away. I can promise the Young Men under the Raider Helments will BRING IT ALL NIGHT LONG!!!! Just ask the JV they just lost after being up by two scores in the fourth. Your team will walk off the field win or lose and say that isn't the same old RAIDERS that used to lay down in the past. We may not be the best team in this district but we have played them already and everyone else just gets smaller and slower. We have better Kids and better Coaches than ever before so come watch the show but what ever you do dont leave IT at home BRING IT!!!!!!!!

BH, didnt lumberton beat ya'll in a scrimmage...?and you wanna talk about teams that are always horrible...thats the only 4a school in state that has never made the playoffs...IN SCHOOL HISTORY...never thought i would say it but im with kvilleballa..yalls schedule is weak, lumberton prolly wont make it out of their district which is down this year...and they stomped yall... ya might want to think things through before you go off talkin cash sh**...enjoy your winning...you'll get stomped first round...

yall over there on the reservation bickering wanting a new chief.. Sounds like to me too many indians and not enough chiefs.. go win a game and then come back and talk..Run,run,pass,punt.. run,run pass,punt.. run,run,pass ,punt.. 42-0 whippin by LCM...wait till yall play Dayton or Central

Just forget about it guys. "SilsbeeD" I did not say anyone was talking smack,i said i wish they would talk smack instead of everyone trying so hard not to hurt feelings.. Bottom line they should have picked someone else for such a festive night!!!! I figure if we can handle these offensive and defensive lines with such a size difference......then that will be the last time we hear about someone lining up and running over us. Good luck Silsbee.....it will be entertaining to say the least!!

Is it LOGICAL to go through your schedule and pick the BEST(by far) team on your schedule for your homecoming game? I was trying to find out if it was done on purpose as motivation or something,or if they just drew it out of a hat or whatever. Is it logical for a Silsbee fan to talk noise after seeing what WO-S has done to their other opponents? NO! But yet and still they do it on a daily basis. Regardless of what anyone says most teams do not pick their toughest opponent for hc. Oh and BH89 i liked that response. Talk a little noise....im tired of the logical babble.

Never heard of a Donkey stomp.....but i would sure like to see it!! In past years WO-S has played down to the level of some opponents,and made some games closer than they should be. This year WO-S is doing what a great team does to inferior opponents. I mean no one wants to compare common opponents, but 6 yards of offense speaks for itself. I have no ill will toward Silsbee,and i wish them the best..........just not this week. Lets pray for no injuries,no fan altercations and a good clean...win! P.S. Silsbee in the words of the great T.O."Bring ya popcorn" and get ready for the greatest show on earth!! (i had to talk a little smack)

lol......im thinkin nederland just beter get past ozen....and face dayton before they talk some trash......but i think we match up with central pretty well....they have more speed...we have more size.....and our offense should do good against this deffence...they have a hard time stoppin the run attack up the middle...so it should be a good game

He's scared of Silsbee. He tries to bring everybody down just to make him fill better, because Kville has not beaten Silsbee yet and they have had better teams in the past than they do this year. He's scared of everybody. Do you think he ever played ball before. He gets on here and tyies to talk football, trying to make up for not playing.

I don't think so,either.... Come on, let's all be nice here. We can talk and even disagree with each other, but lets be nice.

I don't remember Kirbyville blowing Newton out at all!!!!! That was a scrimmage anyway and you only beat us by one touchdown!!!!! We would whoop Kirbyville all ove the field in a real game and you know it Kvillballa..... When yall can win a district title or get past the third round of the playoffs then you can talk to me or anyway else on this topic!!! Kirbyville sucks!!!!!!

There has been alot of talk on this board and others (cough coughNEDboardcough) about how Vidor has no chance and this will be a blowout. I'm glad everyone is counting us out of this game. I hope Central is overlooking us the way many of you are. I'm sure there is some leftover crow from a few weeks back. :oops: :oops:

I am guessing that I am the "fan" your were refering too earlier from OF. Here is the deal. Some people on here think you are anoying, well alot of people do. I don't because I do not take you seriously. I meant what I said earlier about being pround of you for not talking smack after the OF game. See, smack is well, just talk. That means nothing to me. Its what you do in the arena. Yes ya'll did beat us this time. Kirbyville deserve to win. They out played us, but there will be another day and another and so on. So I have learned as a young man till now that talk is cheap. Sometimes you are right but there will be time when you are wrong. I perfer to not talk smack that way I don't owe anybody anything. It is kind of like borrowing money from someone.

Horrible teams?? Look its a proven fact Kirbyville ended BH season two years straight. Don't talk big crap because BH is in a cupcake district. I'll bet you and rest that Kirbyville will still whoop BH easily.

Well lets see now, we got this thread back on topic and then another Nederland fan comes in and begins trash talking again. Is it still our fault this time Ned. fans?? One last time, if you want to trash talk about Ned. and Vidor start a different thread and stay OUT of this one. This is a Central vs. Vidor thread. Worry about your game this week and stay out of ours if you are going to trash talk.

Lets talk about LC-M and Dayton :shock:

Does anyone else want to talk about what this thread is suppose to be about..? Central/Vidor. we already had a Ned/Vidor thread Vidor 28 Nerd 24 (oops! Ned.) Lets get off the old subject and start on the topic this thread is suppose to be about. Is Central looking ahead? How bad does Vidor want it??

Well said piratefan. If you want to talk about Ned. and Vidor start a thread with that name. Stay off of the Vidor/Central thread if you want to talk about that. We have Central this week and are looking to pull off another upset. Good luck to all.

Prediction on this weeks game Central 45 Vidor 10 Now onto other topics at the discussion plate here... Congratulations to Vidor on the fluke win in week 1 of district... We are now in week 4... I know you guys like to ride on this magic carpet when you beat Nederland, and if you want to do so then fine, but to me it just doesnt make sense...If you ask me, we beat ourselves that game, but at any rate, you guys did win. But like I said before the Ned/Vidor game... IF YOU SAY EVERY YEAR THAT YOU ARE GOING TO UPSET NEDERLAND, THEN ITS GOING TO HAPPEN... its just the way football is... i can walk up and down the street everyday and say its about to rain, and one day itll happen.... For what ever reason, we seem to be the bad guys here?? We lost to you, ok big deal, it means the same thing as the loss to Central, we dont have a rivalry with you. I'll be the first to say that I hate PN-G with a passion, its just how I was raised, but from the way you Vidor people talk on here, I would give anything to have a MC team go to the playoffs whether it be us or PNG over you guys. And I still think that will happen..

thanks coach.... your opinion means the world to me!!! i dont know what i would do if i didnt have your approval, i think i might cry :cry: . i just want to say that is an absolute ignorant post being you dont know me outside of this site let alone ever spoke a word to or around me. very ignorant statement coach, very ignorant.... im gonna have to talk to the powers that be and find out when you were voted in as thread police or the website "class" evaluator. i thought that was the point of the site was to voice your OPINION, but i guess only when its the popular opinion, and heaven forbid coach doesnt agree with it... can i pre-order the new hit list shirt???? :wink:

someone please tell Big dog that there is a history section on this forum about all there victories..Not this section though..Go over there Big dog and talk all you want..NO ONE CARES what yalls record was 40 years ago..