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SportsPage 10 • Jan. 27, 2016
Clear Lake Reporter
SPORTS
CALENDAR
Continued from page 9
•V/JV Hockey: Thurs., Jan. 28, at Water-
loo Warrior, 6 p.m.
•JV/V Hockey: Sat., Jan. 30, home vs.
Dubuque Devils, 5:15 p.m.
•JV/V Hockey: Sun., Jan. 31, home vs.
Dubuque Devils, 9 a.m.
•Hockey: Fri., Jan. 29, at Granite City,
7:30 p.m.
•Hockey: Sat., Jan. 30, at Granite City,
7:30 p.m.
Area athletes playing in a college sport in- game.
clude: Trudy Peterson, Clear Lake, Basketball,
NIACC; Chase Lester, Clear Lake, Basketball,
NIACC; Brennan Doebel, Clear Lake, Wres-
tling, NIACC; Jacob Colon, Clear Lake, Wres-
tling, Grand View College. Clear Lake students fidence they needed heading into the
playing on the Mason City Mohawk Hockey
team include: Ethan McHenry, Jacob Peterson,
Nick Piscopo, Noah Stevenson, Wil Cooney,
Ben Blaha and Noah Taylor.
Girls Union
announces
post-season
pairings
The Iowa Girls High
School Athletic Union has re-
leased brackets for Class 1, 2
and 3A Regional Regional bas-
ketball pairings.
Clear Lake will open post-
season competition on Satur-
day, Feb. 13, against Apling-
ton-Parkersburg. The Class 3A
Region 2 game will be played in
Clear Lake at 7 p.m. The win-
ner will advance to play the win-
ner of the Forest City vs. Iowa
Falls-Alden game being played
in Forest City on Feb. 13. That
second round game will be
played Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 7
p.m. in Forest City.
Garner-Hayfield-Ventura
will compete in Class 3A Region
1. The Cards will face Algona
in the first round game set for
7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13. The
winner will advance to take on
the winner of the Spirit Lake
vs. Estherville Lincoln-Central
game at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb.
17, at 7 p.m. in Spirit Lake.
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GHV boys get win over No. 1 West Hancock
The Garner-Hayfield-Ventura
boys proved they deserve to be at the
top of the Top of Iowa Conference
with two big wins last week. The
Cards moved their record to 10-2, 12-
3.
GHV 73, West Hancock 63
The players knew it, the coaches
knew it, and the fans knew that Tues-
day night’s matchup between the Car-
dinals and West Hancock was going
to be huge. The Eagles led the con-
ference with a record of 10-1, 13-1,
and they had beaten GHV earlier in
the season, so a lot was riding on the
The Cardinals had an excellent
first half, outscoring West Hancock,
43-26. A three-point buzzer beater
by Payton James gave GHV the con-
half.
GHV girls pick up win over B-K;
Fall to rival West Hancock
Things are looking up for the
Garner-Hayfield-Ventura girls, as they
picked up a win last week to move
their record in the right direction, 3-9,
4-11.
GHV 55, Belmond-Klemme 54
A never-give-up attitude helped
the GHV girls pick up a one-point
road win on Friday, Jan. 22, at
Belmond-Klemme (2-10, 3-12).
“It was great to see us finally put
it all together and be rewarded with
a victory,” said Coach Matt Erpeld-
ing. “I was proud of the girls in that
they never gave up and played with
great effort in the fourth quarter.”
The Broncos jumped to an early
11-2 lead in the first quarter, before
the Cardinals started to pick it up,
closing the gap to 13-7 at the end
of the first quarter. About half way
through the second quarter, GHV be-
gan to roll and tied it up 25-25 head-
ing into the half. four assists, three steals and one
B-K went on an eight-point un-
answered run in the third quarter and
led, 38-44, at the end of the quarter.
The Cardinals still trailed, 53-
46, with 2:15 remaining in the game
when Taryn Carolus knocked down
a three-point shot. From there, the
Cardinals took advantage of some
turnovers and missed free throws. A
defensive rebound by Carolus with
:31 remaining set up a shot by Han-
nah Lau to tie the game, 54-54, with
14 seconds remaining. Carolus was
then fouled and sent to the line for
a one-and-one. She missed the first
one, but sunk the second to win the
game, 55-54.
“I am extremely proud of Taryn
for stepping up and knocking down
SAM CATALDO
“In the first half I thought the
guys showed good patience on of-
fense. We did a nice job finding their
shooters and protecting the rim,” said
Coach Joe Albertson.
The Eagles made some adjust-
ments at halftime and came back on
TARYN CAROLUS
HANNAH LAU
that free throw, especially after being Carolus made a field goal with 4:14
iced for about three minutes due to an
issue with the clock,” said Erpelding.
Lau had a strong game for the
Cardinals, recording a double-double
with 22 points and 14 rebounds. She
also had three steals, two assists and
one blocked shot.
Jillian Heitland also had a good
game with 15-points, four rebounds,
blocked shot.
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JOHNATHAN O’CONNOR
fire, outscoring the Cardinals 17-9, to
pull the score closer, 52-43.
West Hancock connected on four
three-point shots early in the fourth
quarter to get to within five, 60-55.
Another three-point shot and a field
goal knotted the score at 60-60 with
Maddie Williams added nine
points, while Carolus had six and
Mara Anderson added three.
West Hancock 67, GHV 33
The West Hancock girls (9-2,
13-2) proved to be too much for the
Cardinals on Tuesday night, Jan. 19,
as GHV fell 67-33 to the Top of Iowa
Conference powerhouse.
The Eagles had a nine-point run
in the first quarter to take an early
lead, 16-7. The gap widened in the
second quarter, 22-7, before Taryn
remaining in the half. Maddie Wil-
liams chipped in six-points before
halftime for a score of 31-20.
The Eagles opened the second
half with an 11-point run and they
didn’t look back as they outscored the
Cardinals, 36-13, in the second half
for the final 67-33 victory.
“We couldn’t get anything going
on the offensive end and they pulled
away,” said Coach Matt Erpelding.
“Defensively, I thought we showed
improvement from the first time we
played them in limiting their dribble
penetration.”
Scoring was balanced for the Car-
dinals with four girls, Carolus, Jillian
Heitland, Hannah Lau and Williams,
collecting six points apiece,
Lau and Heitland led under the
boards with nine and six rebounds re-
spectively. Payton Bamrick grabbed
four.
Mara Anderson led the team in
assists with three. Williams grabbed
two steals, while Carolus and Miranda
Jackson had two blocked shots apiece.
The girls travel to Crestwood on
Thursday for a 6 p.m. game.
Clear Lake Mirror-Reporter
2:36 remaining in the game. Johna- ing two three-point shots. That was
than O’Connor stepped it up and about as far as the Broncos went, as
sunk two free throws and a field goal. the Cardinals followed that shot with
He also got a steal and made an assist a 16-point unanswered run, which
to Sam Cataldo to give the Cardinals stretched to a 42-10 lead by halftime.
the lead again, 66-60. Turner Albert- The second quarter was more of
son connected on four free throws to the same, with the Cardinal defense
seal the Cardinal victory, 73-63. holding the Broncos to just nine total
“The guys showed a lot of poise points in the second half.
in the fourth quarter after West Han- “We were able to get the ball in-
cock tied the game. We needed that side and had some great ball move-
kind of game with that kind of result,” ment that led to easy scores,” said
said Albertson. Coach Joe Albertson. “The boys did
Cataldo had a fantastic night, a nice job controlling the boards and
with 27-points, 13 rebounds and two forcing turnovers. We will have to
blocked shots. O’Connor was the continue to move the ball and find the
second leading scorer with 14-points, open shooters and control the glass to
followed by James Betz and Nick win games next week.”
Joynt with seven-points apiece. Pay- Sam Cataldo led the team with
ton James was 2/3 from the three- 18-points. Other scoring leaders
point line for six-points. were James Betz and Alek Goll with
Betz had a good night on defense nine points apiece. Goll was a perfect
with 10 rebounds, one steal and two 3/3 from the beyond the three-point
blocked shots. He also had two as- arc. Nick Joynt and Ryan Meyers had
sists. eight and seven points respectively.
O’Connor led the team in assists Betz led under the boards with
with seven. five rebounds. Meyers grabbed four.
GHV 69, Belmond-Klemme 19 Picking up two steals apiece were
The Cardinals picked up a huge Joynt, Johnathan O’Connor, Payton
road win on Friday, Jan. 22, when James and Trevor Kluver.
they traveled to Belmond-Klemme (2- Ben Baumgard, Harley Forry and
10, 3-13). The Broncos proved to be Holden Hutcheson had three assists
no match for GHV, as the Cardinals apiece.
walked away with a huge 69-19 vic- The team travels to Clarion-
tory. Goldfield-Dows on Friday, Jan. 29.
B-K opened the game by sink- Game time is slated for 7:45 p.m.
Signs with NIACC
Payton Bamrick, a senior at Garner-Hayfield-Ventura High School, signed with
NIACC last week to play softball at North Iowa Area Community College.
Bamrick was a stand-out player on the Cardinal team last season.-Reporter
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