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SPORTS
CALENDAR
Thursday
•Clear Lake 10th grade football
home vs. Forest City, 6 p.m.
•Clear Lake 9th/JV/V volleyball
home vs. Humboldt, 6 p.m.
•GHV 7th & 8th grade volleyball at
Lake Mills, 4:15 p.m.
Friday
•Clear Lake 9th grade football at
Forest City, 4:45 p.m.
•Clear Lake V football at Forest
City, 7:30 p.m.
•GHV V football home vs. Ester-
ville Lincoln Central, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday
•Clear Lake V volleyball tourna-
ment at Mason City, 8:30 a.m.
Monday
•Clear Lake 8th grade volleyball at
Iowa Falls-Alden, 4:15 p.m.
•Clear Lake 7th grade volleyball
home vs. Iowa Falls-Alden, 4:15
p.m.
•GHV MS/JV/V cross country at
Forest City, 4:30 p.m.
•GHV JV football at Central
Springs, 6 p.m.
Tuesday
•Clear Lake MS/JV/V cross coun-
try at Fort Dodge, 4 p.m.
•Clear Lake 9th/JV/V volleyball at
Webster City, 6 p.m.
•GHV 7th & 8th grade volleyball at
West Hancock, 4:15 p.m.
•GHV JJV/JV/V volleyball at
Rockford, 6 p.m.
•Football: Sat., Oct. 10, home vs.
Illinois, 11 a.m.
•Football: Sat., Oct. 10, at Texas
Tech, 2:30 p.m.
•Football: Sat., Oct. 10, at North
Dakota State, 1 p.m.
•Volleyball: Fri., Oct. 9, home vs.
Wartburg JV, 7 p.m.
•Baseball: Sat., Oct. 10, at DCTC
Scout Weekend, Rosemount,
Minn.
•Volleyball: Sat., Oct. 10, home
vs. Dakota County Tech. College,
1 p.m.
•Men’s Soccer: Sat., Oct. 10, at
Iowa Western CC, 4 p.m.
•Men’s Golf: Sun.-Mon., Oct. 11-
12, at NJCAA Region XI Preview
Tournament, Panora, Iowa
•Football, Sat., Oct. 10, home vs.
Mayville State University, 1 p.m.
•Football: Sat., Oct. 10, home vs.
South Dakota, 3 p.m.
Mount Mercy
University
•Women’s Golf: Sun.-Mon., Oct.
11-12, at William Penn Invitation-
al, Oskaloosa, Iowa
•Volleyball: Mon., Oct. 12, home
vs. Martin Luther, TBA
•Men’s Soccer: Sat., Oct. 10,
home vs. Monmouth College,
1:30 p.m.
MORE CALENDAR
on Page 10
Class 2A, District 2 Football
Results
Page 11 Scores From 10-2 Games for 10-9
W-SR 21, Clear Lake 14 Clear Lake @ Forest City
GHV 31, Osage 13 Estherville @ GHV
Forest City 41, C-G-D 20 H-D @ C-G-D
H-D 20, Estherville 7 N. Fayette @ Osage
Oct. 7, 2015 • Page 9
GoHawks top
the Lions, 21-14
A pair of football power- end zone from the 12 to put the
houses squared off for a non- Lions in the lead. Another suc- Clear Lake’s Ryan Atkinson brings down WSR’s ball carrier during Friday night’s game. Also visible for Clear Lake is Thomas Storbeck (5), Justin
district battle Friday night. Class cessful PAT made the score 14-7. Sholly (66) and Ace Walton (75). -Reporter photos by Chris Barragy
3A Waverly-Shell Rock (4-3) The GoHawks finally picked
pulled off a 21-14 victory. The up their first, first down midway Justin Sholly had a team- Parker Pitzen makes his way through a big hole created by Ace Walton and Carter Garrington.
loss puts the Lions at 3-3 over- through the second quarter. On high seven solo tackles and six
all, but they remain unbeaten in fourth and eight from the Lions’ assists. Pitzen made five solo
Class 2A, District 2 at 3-0 with 43, WSR fooled the Lions, as and two assisted tackles to go
three district games remaining. their punter turned passer and with his solo sack. Two of Pit-
“Hat’s off to Waverly-Shell made the first down. Another zen’s tackles were solo tackles for
Rock. They are a great program pass provided a touchdown and a loss. Thomas Storbeck also
and a great coached team,” said the score was tied at halftime. recorded a solo sack, along with
Lions Coach Jared DeVries after The Lions maintained a long three solo tackles, one of them
the game. “I take responsibility drive to start the second half, for a loss. One of Joey Monson’s
for the loss. I messed that one up but came up empty handed after three solo tackles went for a loss
with bad calls on my part.” reaching the GoHawk 20. and he made three more assisted
The coach was referring to WSR finally took the lead in tackles. Tatum also helped the
calls made late in the game as the final quarter on a seven play, defense with four solo and two
WSR fooled the Lion defense on 76-yard drive. assisted tackles. Ryan Atkinson
a fake punt. They pulled out a Again, the Lions responded was also credited with a solo
long pass play to set up the win- with determination and took the tackle for a loss, one of three
ning score. ball from their own 27 to the solo takedowns he made on the
Good defensive plays by the WSR 14, but turned the ball over night. Atkinson also made a
Lions held the visitor in check on downs. fumble recovery for the Lions.
the majority of the game. How- With their backs against This week the Lions will be
ever, an 89-yard kickoff return the wall the Lion defense held at Forest City (2-4, 2-2). Coach
and fourth quarter drive pro- the GoHawks and forced a punt DeVries said his team will need
duced touchdowns. from the Lion end zone. The to be ready for a Forest City team
After a scoreless first quarter, kick was fielded at the 45 and which appears to be finding its
Zach Tatum put the Lions on the returned to the 37 with under stride after dealing with injuries
scoreboard with a 29-yard touch- one-minute to work with. This early in the season.
down run. The score capped an time the GoHawk defense rose
eight-play, 51-yard drive that up and held the Lions. Quarter-
used the last three minutes of the back Zach Lester was intercepted
first quarter and gave the Lions on a long third-down try to end
points on their first play in the the game.
second. Jarod Anderson’s kick Lester completed 11
made the score 7-0. of 16 pass attempts for 90
For the second week in a row yards through the air. Cody
an opponent returned a kickoff Matz caught two passes for
to quickly silence the Lion faith- 38-yards. Tatum had four for
ful. “Kick-off returns are becom- 27-yards and Anderson made
ing an Achilles heel for us,” said three receptions for 22-yards.
DeVries. “We’re working on it.” The Lion ground game was
Clear Lake players kept balanced, as Tatum led the way
their heads up and fought back with 67-yards on 14 carries and
with another score on their next Lester ran 12 times for 47. Cart-
possession. The team covered er Garrington ran nine times for
80-yards in eight plays. Parker 33 and Pitzen rushed eight times
Pitzen carried the ball into the for 32-yards.
CL cross country boys win Algona Invitational
The Algona invitational turned out to be a special night for the seconds off of his personal best and finished 21st in a time of 17:56. said Coach DiMarco.
Clear Lake cross country team. Individual personal bests and team Rounding out the scoring for the Lions was Spencer Orr, who ran a Jake Wessels finished fifth in 19:26. Josh Howard was next in
success was the order of the night. season best 18:28 and finished 38th. 12th place, running his best time of the year and finishing in 19:53.
The varsity boys were the best of an 18-team field Monday, Kaleb Froiland broke the 19-minute barrier for the first time Lewis Callaway finished 19th, inching closer to that 20-minute
Sept. 28, which was full of programs that have successful traditions. this year with a time of 18:54, finishing 57th. Not far behind him barrier with a time of 20:07. Dylan Schuchard was the fifth scorer,
Clear Lake’s 81 points was 18 better than Class 4A Fort Dodge was Sam Jones in 65th place with a time of 19:03. finishing 34th in 20:57.
Public and 22 better than 4A Mason City. “The boys ran with a focus and determination as a team that Also for the Lions: Jonah Pedelty, 45th, 21:14; Gage Bendick-
The Clear Lake boys saw four of their runners break the 18-min- I have not seen in the past four years,” said Coach Nick DiMarco. son, 71st, 21:59; Jackson Hamlin, 103rd, 22:47; Zeke Branstad,
ute barrier, which is the first time in recent memory. “This is the biggest meet we have won in a long time and it is sure 118th, 23:13; Bryan Hillyer, 136th, 23:42; Carson Meyer, 144th,
Clear Lake was led by the Faught brothers, Eric and Ryan, who to give the boys confidence going forward.” 24:01; Noah Copney, 147th, 24:13; Joel Groeneweg, 148th,
ran shoulder to shoulder most of the race and finished seventh and The JV boys finished third close behind Webster City and 24:16; Nick Currier, 149th, 24:18; Shane Furhman, 150th, 24:20;
eighth. Eric finished seventh in a time of 17:15 and brother Ryan Humboldt. The Lions were led by Grant Dieken who finished sec- Hunter Gerhardt, 154th, 24:25; Daniel Tank, 155th, 24:28; Da
finished eighth in 17:16. Not far behind was Sam Pedelty, who ond in a time of 18:47.
ran a career best at 17:33, finishing 12th. Ike Branstad shaved :30 “Grant works extremely hard and his success is much deserved,” See CL CROSS COUNTRY on page 10
Lions fall to tough Regional
competition volleyball
pairings set
Algona 3, CL 0 13. Clear Lake’s Vivian Benjegerdes tries to get a spike past an Algona defender in Tuesday night’s match-up.
Fourteenth ranked Algona (3A) We were fortunate to play two The Bulldogs topped the Lions in three games with scores of 25-14, 25-13 and 25-12. Clear Lake had The Iowa High
swept the Lions, 3-0, in a North excellent teams this week that con- their hads full with the 14th ranked Algona team. -Reporter photo by Chris Barragy School Girls Athletic
Central Conference match played stantly tested us. We improved on Union has announced
Tuesday, Sept 29. Game scores were a number of things, but passing was pairings for Regional
25-14, 25-13, 25-12. our Achilles heel this game,” said volleyball play.
“We hung in throughout the Coach Sears. “It was tough to get Clear Lake and
match, and our defense played ex- a rhythm going with our new rota- Garner-Hayfield-Ven-
tremely well, but silly mistakes came tion.” tura have both been as-
back to bite us in the end,” said On the positive side, Sears said signed to Class 3A, Re-
Coach Keith Sears. “I was happy practices since the non-conference gion 4. Both teams will
to see girls stepping up and taking a Forest City match have been valu- open post-season play
positive move forward when we got able. Monday, Oct. 26, at
down on the scoreboard.” “Practice has had a renewed 7 p.m. The Lions will
Marne Euken and Emily Snel- sense intensity and higher level of face Algona, at Algona,
ling each had four kills to lead the focus, which has been great to see,” while the Cardinals
Lions. The power plays were set up added the coach. are slated to meet For-
by assists from Carson Frahm, who Jessica Faber had a perfect night est City at Forest City.
had six on the night. Chloe Mueller serving, going seven-for-seven. Winners will advance
kept the ball in play with 32 digs. Chloe Mueller again led the team in to play at 7 p.m. Thurs-
Jessica Faber led the team at the digs with 23. Marne Euken topped day, Oct. 29, at Forest
service line, going 6/7. the Lions in kills with three and City.
Defensively, Kayla Ritter and blocks, with two. Emily Snelling The other side of
Snelling each had two blocks. was credited with three assists. the Region 4 bracket
Forest City 3, CL 0 The Lions’ next home match is includes Humboldt,
The competition only got Thursday, Oct. 8, against NCC foe Clarion-Goldfield-
tougher for the Lions on Thursday, Humboldt, rated 11th in 3A. It will Dows, Gilbert and Ro-
as they hosted seventh ranked (3A) also be Parents and Senior Night for land-Story.
Forest City. The Indians were 3-0 the Lions. Everyone is also encour- The Iowa State Vol-
winners by scores of 25-8, 25-9, 25- aged to wear pink in honor of Breast leyball Tournament will
Cancer Awareness Night. be held Nov. 10-13 at
the US Cellular Center
in Cedar Rapids.