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Basketball Dec. 23, 2015 • Page 15
Bart Smith
Clear Lake Mirror-Reporter

Clear Lake’s Dalton Grell picks up some back points on his way to defeating Algona’s Calvin Kruse by a 9-6 decision at 170 Eric Faught, who wrestles at 113 pounds, pinned Algona’s Cameron Peterson. The Lions topped Algona, 44-16, in a home meet
pounds. -Reporter photos by Chris Barragy triangular Thursday night.

Wrestlers post 12-11 record heading into break
The Clear Lake team won Battle of Waterloo tournament. second period. He chose the top has a bright future. pounds by wrestling heavyweight.
four and lost four meets during Only the top teams in Iowa are position and once again put on 138: Ryan Leisure. Ryan has State Champs recognized
the past week to put their record invited. The Lions went 2-4 in his patented cradle and pinned done an exceptional job moving up CL 39, Hampton-Dumont 30
at 12-11 heading into Christ- the two-day tournament. his opponent to give Clear Lake to 145 to help his team. 152: Ryan Faught (CL) over Last year’s State wrestling champions, Ryan Leasure (left) and Bren-
mas break. Friday, the Lions lost 55-15 the win. 138: Ben Finn. Ben slides Caleb Chaney (Dec 7-1) 160: nen Doebel were honored at Thursday night’s home meet. For the
“The kids and coaches did a to the number one seed, Dav- “It was nice to see Kaleb be into the 138 weight when Leisure Isaac Shelton (HD) over Cooper first time in Clear Lake High School history, two Clear Lake wres-
great job the first month of the enport Assumption. Winning the hero,” said Weber. “He is a moves up and has come up with Merrill (Dec 13-7) 170: Corbin tlers won State titles in the same year. Doebel, a medical redshirt
season— 23 duals in three weeks for the Lions was Eric and Ryan senior who has paid his dues and several big wins to help the team. Jobe (HD) over Dalton Grell (Dec at NIACC this season, did it in exciting fashion with a thrilling
is a crazy amount of meets,” said Faught and Ryan Leisure. Eric is having a great senior year.” 145: Kaleb Froiland. Kaleb 4-1) 182: Logan Chipp (HD) over 3-1 overtime win over Derek Holschlag (53-2), of Union, LaPorte
Coach Gary Weber. “When I Faught and Leisure both beat Coach Weber noted the has a super start to the season. He Dalton Mennenga (Fall 2:38) 195: City. Leisure dominated at 126-pounds, beating Tristin Clark, of
began coaching in 1982, a team ranked wrestlers. team has been without seniors not only wins, but pins with his pat- Miles Fristo (HD) over Kade Ham- PCM, Monroe, 6-1.
could only have nine duals in a The second dual pitted Ace Walton, Carter Garrington ented cradle. bly (Fall 5:42) 220: Emilio Valenzu-
year!” Clear Lake against Lake Mills. and Braxton Doebel for much 152: Ryan Faught. Ryan has ela (HD) over Spencer Christensen
The week started Thurs- The match came down the the of the month. Still, the Lions been finding a way to win close (Fall 1:10) 285: Pablo Gonzalez
day at home. The Lions had a final weight and Lake Mills have been impressive. matches the past two weeks. He is (HD) over Kyle Willms (Fall 3:35)
great showing, beating Algona, won, 39-30. “We could be a very good listening to his coaching staff and 106: Bryan Hillyer (CL) by forfeit;
44-16, and pulling out a come- The third match of the day team by February,” he added. showing improvement. 113: Eric Faught (CL) by forfeit;
from-behind win over Hamp- the Lions beat Waterloo East, The coach provided this 160: Cooper Merrill. Coop 120: Jackson Hamlin (CL) over
ton, 39-30, after trailing 30-3. 48-30. The highlight of the breakdown of each weight class: has had a couple of injuries, so we Parker Allen (Dec 11-4) 126: Aaron
“Our kids did a great job,” meet was Cooper Merrill and rested him for two weeks. Satur- Canchola (CL) by forfeit; 132: Will
said Weber. “In particular Ryan Ryan Leisure both recording :09 106: Eric Faught, 13-0. Eric day he had two big pins to help his Kirschbaum (CL) over Robert Alert
Leisure moved up a weight class second pins. has beaten two ranked wrestlers team. (Fall 1:38) 138: Ben Finn (CL) over
to beat a very good ranked wres- Saturday started with a 39- from Southeast Polk and Daven- 170: Dalton Grell. Dalton only Joe Schall (MD 11-3) 145: Ryan
tler by 15 points.” 31 loss to Pleasant Valley. port Assumption. He moves up to weighs 163 and wrestles up a Leisure (CL) over Carter Barkema
The win gave Clear Lake Next, the Lions lost anoth- 113 when we need him to. weight class to help his team. (TF 17-2 4:10)
possession of the traveling tro- er close battle, 40-26, to Cedar 113: Bryan Hillyer. He only 182: Dalton Mennenga. Dal-
phy known as “Floyd of Swale- Falls. weighs 105 and often a wrestles ton is just a sophomore and contin- CL 44, Algona 16
dale” for the 10th consecutive The Lions ended on a good 113. He is working hard. ues to work hard. 138: Ben Finn (CL) over Carson
year. note with an extremely excit- 120: Jackson Hamlin. Jack is 195: Kade Hambly. Kade Devine (Dec 11-6) 145: Ryan Lei-
“Hampton is one of our ri- ing 42-39 win over West Dela- one of hardest fighters. He is a big weighs 173 and wrestles 195. He sure (CL) over Austin Chase (Fall
vals, so it is always nice to get a ware. The meet came down to reason we beat West Delaware, has hadseveral big wins wrestling 2:10) 152: Darek Garman (AL) over
win,” added Weber. the last match, with the Lions because he didn’t get pinned. up 22 pounds and is only a fresh- Kaleb Froiland (Dec 5-2) 160: Ryan
On Friday, the Lions trav- trailing, 39-36. Kaleb Froiland 126: Aaron Canchola. Aaron man. Faught (CL) over Tomah Leamah
eled to Waterloo for the 32-team was down 2-0 heading into the showed improvement this week. 220: Spencer Christensen is (UTB 5-4) 170: Dalton Grell (CL)
He had a beautiful throw for a pin filling in for Ace Walton. He picked over Calvin Kruse (Dec 9-6) 182:
against West Delaware to help the up his first varsity win Saturday and Noah Murphy (AL) over Dalton
team win. is gaining valuable experience. He Mennenga (Dec 5-4) 195: Noah
132: Will Kirshbaum. Will is also is just a freshman. Murphy (AL) over Kade Hambly
13-5 in his sophomore year and 285: Kyle Willms. Kyle is ma- (MD 9-1) 220: Dominick Ethering-
turing into a very good wrestler. ton (AL) over Spencer Christensen
It sounds like a broken record, (Fall 2:31) 285: Kyle Willms (CL)
but he, too, is often giving up 60
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Lions lose Clear Lake girls pick up
momentum in two wins on the road
last two games The Clear Lake girls basketball team 19 points, followed by Barragy with 12
used a pair of wins on the road last week points and Biebesheimer with 11. Bar-
The Clear Lake boys rode a three-game win to move to 5-2 overall. The Lions post- ragy and Biebesheimer were the leaders
streak into a busy week of action before the holiday ed victories over Iowa Falls-Alden and in rebounds with six apiece. Snelling
break. After opening with a win over Iowa Fall- Fort Dodge St. Ed’s to improve to 3-1 had quick hands, getting five steals in
Alden, the Lions stopped a non-conference game to in the North Central Conference. the game to go with her five assists.
Mason City, then continued to skid at Fort Dodge CL 52, IF-A 45 Chloe Mueller put in five points for
St. Edmond. Clear Lake is 4-3 on the season and An all-around team effort helped the Lions. Erin O’Tool put in three and
3-2 in conference play. the Lions past winless Iowa Falls-Alden Gretchen Jones and McKenna Backhaus
52-45 on Tuesday, Dec. 15. Emily Snel- each had one point.
CL 80, IF-A 43 Clear Lake’s Zach Tatum struggles to get a shot off during the Mason City game played on Thursday night. ling, Jordyn Barragy and Ellie Biebe- CL 48, St. Ed’s 37
Iowa Falls-Alden opened the Tuesday, Dec. 15 Tatum finished the game with 14-points and nine rebounds. -Reporter photo by Chris Barragy sheimer all finished in double figures for “Finally, a win at St. Eds!” ex-
game with a 10-0 run, but Clear Lake responded the Lions. claimed Coach Smith Friday night after
with a 14-0 run of their own and started the second ended the Lions, 77-71, in a non-conference first quarter and played steadily through the sec- “We had better ball movement in his team came out on top, 48-37.
half with a 16-0 run on their way to blowing out battle. ond to hold a 37-35 advantage at the break. tonight’s game. I thought we shared it It wasn’t as easy as the score makes
the Cadets, 80-44. “I was very pleased with our effort and over- “Unfortunately in the third we struggled on well at the beginning and were able to it appear. A strong second quarter, in
Thomas Storbeck had 15 of his 17 points in all game plan. We wanted to limit getting into the defensive end and gave them too many easy get off to a good start,” said Coach Bart which the Lions outscored the Gaels (0-
the third quarter, most of those coming during the an up/down game with them and I thought for baskets that put us down four going into the Smith. 6) 17-7, and crucial free throws the dif-
Clear Lake 16-0 run to start the half. Parker Trues- the most part we gave ourselves a chance,” said fourth,” explained the coach. The Lions poured in 20 points in ference.
dell added 15, all on three-pointers, while Zach Ta- Coach Jeremy Ainley. The Mohawks built upon their second quar- the first quarter to lead by six, 20-14. It “It’s a tough place to play, but we
tum chipped in 10. Thomas Storbeck again had a hot hand, ter momentum and outscored the Lions in the was a more even second period, but the did just enough to get a win down
“We got off to a slow start, then settled in with finishing with 25 points. He dropped 10 of 19 third and fourth quarters. Mason City led by as Lions took a 32-24 lead to the locker there,” said Coach Smith. “Our free
a 20-3 run sparked by Tatum with back-to-back fieldgoal attempts and was 3/4 from the free many as 12 points in the final frame before the room at halftime. throw shooting gave us the victory.
three-point plays,” said Coach Jeremy Ainley. throw line in addition to grabbing six rebounds Lions closed the gap to six with one minute left. The Cadets made some good defen- Making 19 in a row helps. I’m very
After taking an eight point lead into the half, and making two steals. The Lions had two chances to cut into the lead, sive adjustments at the break and held proud of our girls with that stat.”
the Lions started the second half with a 14-0 run Zach Tatum and Parker Truesdell also put but couldn’t execute. the Lions to just seven third quarter Both teams started out a bit slug-
and cruised to a victory from there. up double digit scores. The seniors put in 14 “Overall, we fought to the end and put a scare points, pulling to within four, 39-35, gish, ending the first quarter in a 7-7 tie.
“Overall, we had a great team effort,” said and 13 points respectively. Tatum led the team into them,” said Ainley. “It was a great experience heading into the final frame. The Lions broke out of their funk by
Coach Ainley. in rebounds with nine. for our young players and they are a good team IF-A pulled within two points using full court pressure to force some
The remainder of the Lions’ scoring was pro- Zach Lester and Nate DiCamillo contribut- with a lot of good basketball players, including a twice down the stretch, but each time turnovers which resulted in baskets. At
vided by Parker Pitzen with nine, Evan Kruse with ed six points apiece, while Justin Sholly had five. few that will play college basketball. It will make the Lions responded. the break, the Lions were up 24-17.
six, and Jarod Anderson, Justin Sholly and Nate Di- Sholly battled under the boards and recorded us a better team in the future.” “We had trouble pulling away from Emily Snelling put in 28 points for
Camillo with five apiece. Zach Lester put in four five rebounds before fouling out. Parker Pitzen them because we couldn’t take care of the Lions, helped by 17/18 shooting
points, Nick Naumann had three and Cody Matz added two points for the Lions. St. Ed’s 64, CL 53 the ball and get defensive rebounds. from the free throw line. She managed
sunk a free throw for one. Clear Lake rushed out to a 20-14 lead in the See CL BOYS on page 17 These are two categories where you 10 steals and paced the team on the
Sholly was a force under the basket, pulling want to be good at if we want to put boards with four rebounds.
down 11 rebounds. He also had two blocked shots. teams away and we weren’t,” said Coach Chloe Mueller added seven points
The Lions had 11 steals in the game, led by Smith. and had five steals. Jessica Faber and
Lester with three. The sophomore also dished out The Lions had 12 offensive and 10 Jordyn Barragy put in five points apiece
eight assists. defensive rebounds in the game com- and Ellie Biebesheimer had two.
Mason City 77, CL 71 pared to 16 offensive and 18 on defense “We didn’t win the important stats
The Lions gave the favored home team all they for the Cadets. Anna Pomeroy pulled again and that’s disappointing as a coach
could handle Thursday night, but Mason City up- down 13 rebounds for IF-A. because we stress that every day,” said
Snelling finished with a team-high Smith.