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“Looking at their recent games, we knew
they (Clear Lake) would be scrappy, and
that’s exactly who they were.”
GHV Head
Softball Coach
Christi Weiser
Clear Lake Mirror-Reporter
Clear Lake Reporter
SPORTS
CALENDAR
Wednesday
•Clear Lake JV/V baseball home
vs. Algona, 5:30 p.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V softball home vs.
Algona, 5:30 p.m.
•GHV JJV baseball home vs. Eagle
Grove, 11 a.m.
•GHV JJV softball home vs. Eagle
Grove, 11 a.m.
•GHV JV/V baseball at Eagle
Grove, 5:30 p.m.
•GHV V/JV softball at Eagle Grove,
6 p.m.
Thursday
•Clear Lake 9th grade baseball at
Newman, 11 a.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V softball at Bishop play a lot of tournaments with
Garrigan, 5:30 p.m.
Friday
•Clear Lake 9th grade baseball
home vs. Mason City, 11 a.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V baseball home
vs. Webster City, 5:30 p.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V softball home vs.
St. Ansgar, 5:30 p.m.
•GHV JJV baseball at Lake Mills,
11 a.m.
•GHV JJV softball at Lake Mills, 11
a.m.
•GHV JV/V baseball home vs. Lake
Mills, 5:30 p.m.
•GHV V/JV softball home vs. Lake
Mills, 6 p.m.
Monday
•Clear Lake JV/V baseball at
Hampton-Dumont, 5:30 p.m.
•GHV JJV baseball home vs. Clari-
on-Goldfield, 11 a.m.
•GHV JJV softball home vs. Clari-
on-Goldfield, 11 a.m.
•GHV V/JV softball home vs.
Hampton-Dumont, 6 p.m.
Tuesday
•GHV JV/V baseball home vs. Cen-
tral Springs, 5:30 p.m.
Struggles continue for Clear Lake softball team
The Clear Lake girls soft-
ball team slid to 0-18 with five
losses last week. The Lions fell to ence for our girls. If we continue
GHV (see separate article below)
and Forest City in non-confer-
ence action. They were topped
by Clarion-Goldfield-Dows and
Webster City in North Central
Conference action.
Clarion-Goldfield 13, CL 2
Ten errors doomed the Lions
in a game with Clarion-Gold-
Clear Lake’s Lexi Jones slides into base, causing GHV’s Tiara Van Gerpen to drop the ball. The Cardinals won the game our kids stepped up to each challenge.”
10-3 on Tuesday, June 23. -Reporter photo by Chris Barragy
1112 Hwy. 18 E.
Clear Lake
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Baseball &
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Results
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Lions dominate in NIC; struggle at tournament
Clear Lake dominated North the mound and the defense was Mitch Keeran, Truesdell and er and that allows his defense to Prange Classic played in the Des daunting task as a team than to
Iowa competition last week, but solid behind him. The Saints Zach Lester each had two hits stay in a rhythm and in the game Moines metro area. beat West Des Moines Dowling
ran into trouble against larger didn’t put their run on the score- and two RBIs. One of Keeran’s and every time he pitches we see Keeran got his team on the Catholic, a perennial 4A power
schools playing in the Brent board until the sixth inning. blasts was a double. our defense make amazing plays board with a three-run home run and fifth rated team currently,
Prange Classic hosted by Saydel Rowdy Yates swung a hot bat The win gave Clear Lake a behind him as a result.” in the first inning. In the sec- on their home field, but we got
High School and played in the with two doubles to lead the of- one game lead over Humboldt in Peterson threw a one-hitter. ond, Truesdell reached base on the opportunity to do that and
Des Moines metro area. fense. Ethan McHenry had two the NCC He struck out one and walked a double and scored on a single I thought our kids, despite the
The Lions started the week hits, as well. Ben Mason picked CL 10, Lake Mills 0 (5) none. by Brock Adams to make the loss, showed a lot of heart to play
with four wins, but then dropped up two RBIs with a single. The Lions were sharp in ev- The Lions led 4-0 after two score 4-1. Dowling scored single toe-to-toe with one of the best
three straight games to go to 18-9 Tofte allowed six hits, struck ery facet of the game on their way innings and added five more runs runs in the first, second, fourth 4A teams in the state on their
overall and 7-1 in North Central out two and walked two in six to a five-inning, 10-run shutout in the fourth and one in the fifth and fifth innings to tie the score. home field.”
Conference play. They are cur- innings of work. Jacob Peterson win for the second straight night. to end the game. They scored 10 With two outs in the bottom of Ben Mason battled a potent
rently ranked fifth in Class 2A. pitched the final inning, giving Jacob Peterson pitched the win. runs on seven singles. Keeran the ninth, Cooper Merrill walked offense very admirably for seven
“I told the kids after the up two hits. “To call Jacob efficient to- and Truesdell each had a pair of a batter. A ground ball up the and one-third innings. He al-
(Saturday) game that we didn’t In the second game, the night would be a dramatic un- hits. middle put runners and first lowed 10 hits, struck out three
set up our schedule the way we Lion offense was strong from derstatement, as he managed to Dowling 5, CL 4 (9) and second. Truesdell fielded a and walked five. Merrill gave up
did, including being the only 2A the start. They scored 10 runs cut through their lineup in only On Friday, the Lions jumped ground ball to the left side, but two hits and walked two. He was
team in two different tourna- through three innings, led by Ja- 37 pitches in five innings of out to a 3-0 lead but could not was not able to get the runner tagged with the loss.
ments of all 4A teams, because cob Hogan with two home runs. work,” said Coach Thompson. hold on and lost 5-4 in nine in- at first. Meanwhile a pinch run- “Unfortunately the nine-
we were concerned about wins Mason and McHenry had three “He does a really nice job of at- nings at Dowling. The game was ner scored from second, giving inning contest came down to a
and losses. If we were worried hits and two RBIs apiece. Coo- tacking the strike zone as a pitch- the first for the Lions in the Brent Dowling the win. couple breaks and we did not get
about wins and losses we could per Merrill, Parker Truesdell and “It is hard to think of a more them,” said Coach Thompson.
Jacob Hogan each had two hits.
worse teams and pad our win col- McHenry was the winning Clear Lake’s Mitch Keeran is one of the leading batters for the Lions. Against Clarion-Goldfield-Dows he Marshalltown 5, CL 3
umn. But you never get stronger pitcher, allowing just six hits in picked up two hits and later in the week recorded a three-run homer. -Reporter photo by Chris Barragy Clear Lake lost 5-3 to Mar-
as an athlete unless you eventu- five innings. He struck out three shalltown on Saturday in a game
ally add some weight to your and walked one. played at Saydel. The Lions
barbell, and we feel competing CL 11, C-G-D 0 (5) trailed 3-1 after four innings, but
against the very best teams in the The Lions posted a lopsided tied the score in the fifth with
state will make us a better team 11-0 victory over Clarion-Gold- two runs. Marshalltown plated
when district play begins in a few field-Dows Wednesday, June 24. runs in the sixth and seven for
weeks. “We love to give kids oppor- the win.
tunities to be amazing and it was “We definitely did not play
CL 7, St. Ansgar 1 awesome to see Brad Burns, in
CL 10, St. Ansgar 0 (5) his first start at the varsity level, See LIONS on page 18
The Lions earned a couple of come out and completely domi-
non-conference wins against St. nate the game from the mound,” CL baseball
Ansgar Tuesday, June 23. They said Coach Thompson. Burns team to honor
took the first game, 7-1, then recorded eight strikeouts in five veterans at
shut out the Saints in five in- innings and issued no walks and July 1 game
nings, 10-0. only gave up two hits. “Our
“St. Ansgar is a good team offense did a nice job of taking The Clear Lake baseball
with a 14-4 record before the day advantage of the opportunities team will be honoring all vet-
started, so to pick up two wins at we got in the first inning to score erans during its July 1 game
their place and outscoring them and was able to put up eight against Algona.
17-1 on the day was nice to see,” runs.” The junior varsity game
said Coach Thompson. Hogan was still a leader at starts at 5:30 p.m., with the var-
It took a while to get the of- the plate with three hits, includ- sity game starting at 7:30 p.m.
fense going in the first game, but ing a double, and three RBIs. Veterans attending “The Vets
Brandon Tofte was in control on Game” will be admitted free of
charge and will be honored dur-
field-Dows Wednesday, June 24. ing the player introductions be-
“This was a learning experi- Forest City 4, CL 2 through five innings, but the Webster City 15, CL 3 losing effort. fore the varsity game.
The Lions played a much Indians evened the score in the The Lions played a pair of In the second game Brackey All fans are encouraged to
to allow teams to capitalize on better game against Forest City sixth and scored two runs in the games with Webster City Friday, showed great command in the wear red, white and blue and/
our errors, it becomes a struggle on Thursday. seventh for the 4-2 win. June 26. circle, but didn’t get the calls, ac- or Clear Lake Lions baseball ap-
to win,” said Coach Young. “We were able to take a The Lions had four hits in The first was a makeup from cording to her coach. parel to the game to honor the
The Lions also struggled on quick lead and started the game the game provided by Jones, a June 11 game. Again the Lions “The girls showed great rev- veterans as the teams kick off
offense, collecting just two hits. impeccably,” said Coach Young. Niles, Tori Fyfe and Sara Buehler. played a close contest, but errors erence by coming back and fight- the July 4th weekend.
Lexi Jones had a hit and RBI, “There seems to be a ‘one in- Jones and Niles got the RBIs. were costly. ing the second game. The girls Donations will be accepted
and Carney Frahm connected for ning upset’ that takes over. This Baalson was the losing “This game was a tough one really showed what they are ca- during the game, with the pro-
a double and scored a run. happened on a few errors and pitcher. She went the distance, for us coaches to watch. We had pable of during this game. We ceeds going to the local Veterans
Baalson took the loss on the allowed Forest City to gain the allowing eight hits, striking out a lot of unnecessary errors, but are excited to go into next week Fund.
mound. She gave up seven hits, lead, but not until the seventh one and walking three. we continue to play and learn and tournament play.” Rain date is the July 3 game
walked two and struck out one. inning.” Webster City 5, CL 1 from them,” said Young. Individual statistics were not versus Webster City.
The Lions held a 2-1 lead Baalson pitched well in a available for the WC games. For more information con-
tact Dale Ludwig at 357-5235
or Dave Theiss at 357-3616.
GHV steps up to challenge and defeats Lions
Clear Lake and Garner-Hayfield/ some solid hits, but we still need to strive Mackenzie VanGerpen and Payton
Ventura teams played a close game to win. We kept it a close game and kept Bamrick each had four hits, including a
through five innings, but GHV closed our errors low, but we need to keep work- double, for the Cardinals and Mallory
out the game with four runs on their ing through them,” she said. Van Oort had three hits. The Cards
way to a 10-3 victory Tuesday, June The Cards knocked out 15 hits were fast on the basepaths, recording
23. against Clear Lake’s Kiersten Baalson six steals. Jayden Hughes had three of
“Coming into out game against and Reagan Brackey. Baalson took the them.
Clear Lake we knew that they had loss, allowing 13 hits in five innings. She The Lions had seven hits scattered
struggled some during the season, but walked four and struck out two. among six players. Michaela Niles
in looking at their recent games, we reached base twice on hits.
knew they would be scrappy, and that’s
exactly who they were,” said GHV Class 3A Region 2
Coach Christi Weiser. “Clear Lake post season to begin July 8
made it feel closer than the score, but
Clear Lake and Garner-Hayfield/ 10, at Cresco.
The Cards made big plays and Ventura softball teams will begin Class GHV (15-12) will host Algona
came up with clutch hits to support 3A Region 2 post-season play Wednes- (11-11) in their first round game on
the pitching effort of both Bailee Pit- day, July 8. Wednesday, July 8. Game time is 7
zenberger and Brooklyn Ossman. Pit- The Lions (0-18) will travel to p.m. The winner will meet Esther-
zenberger got the win, giving up six Cresco to take on Crestwood (19-3) in ville-Lincoln Central (16-5) or Forest
hits, striking out three and walking a 7 p.m. game. The winner will advance City (7-23) in the second round. That
four. Ossman threw the final inning to play either Osage (14-6) or New game will be played at 7 p.m. Friday,
and allowed one hit. Hampton (10-18) Friday night, July July 10, at E-LC.
Clear Lake Coach Megan Young
was proud of her team.
“We are connecting and getting
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