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“The boys forced many turnovers and
made one of the best second half come
backs that I have ever seen.”
GHV Head Boys
Basketball Coach
Joe Albertson
Clear Lake Mirror-Reporter
Clear Lake Reporter
SPORTS
CALENDAR
•Basketball: Sat., March 5, at
Michigan, 7 p.m.
•Basketball: Sat., March 5, at Kan-
sas, 3 p.m.
•Basketball: Thurs.-Sun., March
3-6, at MVC Tournament, St. Louis,
Mo.
•Softball: Thurs.-Fri., March 3-4, at Final game played Tuesday, Feb.
Rosemount Dome Tourney, Rose-
mount, Minn.
•Men’s & Women’s Track & Field:
Fri.-Sat., March 4-5, at NJCAA
Indoor Championships, Winston-
Salem, N.C.
•Wrestling: Fri.-Sat., March 4-5,
at NAIA National Championships,
Topeka, Kan.
•Hockey: Sat., March 5, home vs.
Wisconsin, 7:30 p.m.
•Baseball: Mon.-Fri., March 7-11,
at Tucson Invitational, Tucson, Az.
•Softball: Mon.-Fri., March 7-11, at
Myrtle Beach, S.C.
•Baseball: Fri.-Sun., March 4-6, at
Lindenwood, St. Charles, Mo.
VITERBO
•Baseball: Sat.-Mon., March 5-7,
at Georgia Gwinnett, Lawrencev-
ille, Ga.
•Baseball: Tues.-Wed., March 8-9,
at Reinhardt University, Waleska,
Ga.
•Women’s Track & Field: Fri.-Sun.,
March 4-6, at ECAC/IC4A Indoor
Track Championships, Boston,
Mass.
•Baseball: Sat.-Sun., March 5-6, at
Lewis & Clark CC, Godfrey, Ill.
•Men’s Track & Field: Fri.-Sat.,
March 4-5, at Last Chance Meet
Area athletes playing in a college
sport include: Spencer Davidson,
CL, Golf, NIACC; Sola Stephen-
son, GHV, Track & Field, NIACC;
Alex VanderPloeg, CL, Track &
Field, NIACC; Rebecca Long, CL,
Golf, NIACC; Joel Toppin, GHV,
Wartburg, Track & Field; Michael
& Mitchell Keeran, CL, Baseball,
Waldorf; Sara Barlow, CL, Soft-
ball, Waldorf; Tanner Truesdell,
CL, Baseball, BVU; Brock Adams
& Gavin Sheakley, CL, Baseball,
Kirkwood; Dasiana Larson, GHV,
Track & Field, Liberty University;
Rowdy Yates, CL, Baseball, Vit-
erbo University; Ozzie Adams, CL,
Baseball, Northwest Missouri St.;
Chandler Diercks, CL, & Andrea
Toppin, Ventura, Track & Field,
ISU; Jacob Colon, CL, Wrestling,
Grand View College.
College
Athletes
In The News
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March 2, 2016 • Page 9
Cardinals come up short in Substate Final
It may not have been the remaining in the third, Payton
ending to the season they hoped James sunk a three and Jonathan The Mason City High School gym was wild during the Class 2A Substate Final on Saturday night. The GHV fans and the bench did a good job
for, but the Garner-Hayfield- O’Connor hit a two to knot the of cheering on the Cardinals against Osage. -Reporter photos by Chris Barragy
Ventura boys basketball team score, 50-50. A three-point shot
can’t complain about their stellar at the buzzer gave the Jaguars a Cataldo led under the boards A field goal by Cataldo and a “Our Cardinal Cage and boards with eight rebounds.
season. They wrapped up play in one-point lead, 55-54, heading with seven rebounds, followed three by Jonathan O’Connor fans made the difference in our Betz pulled down six and Harley
the Substate finals Saturday with into the fourth quarter. by Betz and Albertson with five brought the Cardinals to within comeback,” said Albertson. “The Forry grabbed four rebounds.
a 21-5 record. Betz hit his fourth three- apiece. one point, 42-41, with 4:15 re- boys forced many turnovers and O’Connor led the team
GHV 69, Southeast Valley 67 pointer of the game and Nick O’Connor led the team in maining in the game. Cataldo made one of the best second in assists with four and Albert-
It was a night that will be Joynt sunk back-to-back field assists with five and Albertson then sunk back-to back-shots to half come backs that I have ever son dished out three. Cataldo,
remembered for years to come, goals to take a 61-57 lead with had four assists. Joynt and Forry take the lead, 45-44. The Green seen. Even though we fell short O’Connor and Payton James had
when the GHV boys topped 3:53 remaining in the game. The had two steals apiece and Catal- Devils connected on free throws of reaching our goal, I am proud two steals apiece. Cataldo and
Southeast Valley (18-4) on a last Jaguars didn’t roll over. They do recorded five blocked shots, to go up, 52-47. Turner Albert- of how well the team played this Betz each had two blocked shots.
second shot in the 2A District went on a five-point run to while Betz had two blocks. son hit a three to again bring the season.” The Cardinals ended their
once again take the lead, 62-61. Osage 56, GHV 51 score to within two, 52-50, but Cataldo and O’Connor led season with a 21-5 record. They
23, in Humboldt. Cataldo and James both hit cru- The Cardinals gave it their once again, Osage started hitting the team with 16 and 14 points will say good bye to seven se-
The Cardinals fell behind by cial threes to take the lead, 67- all on Saturday, Feb. 27, in the their free throws with under :30 respectively. James Betz added niors: Albertson, Ben Baumgard,
as many as seven points in the 64, with :42 remaining. South- Class 2A Substate Finals against remaining to win the game, 56- seven. Cataldo, Forry, Alek Goll, James
first quarter, 15-8, before three- east Valley hit a three to tie the Osage (20-4). After recovering 51. Cataldo led under the and Trevor Kluver.
point shots by Payton James and game with :26 remaining. At from a 17-point deficit, GHV
James Betz swung the game in the :02 mark, Turner Albertson just didn’t have enough gas in the
the Cardinals’ favor, 17-15. chucked up a three for the win, tank to finish off the Green Dev-
Betz sunk another three to but missed. Betz crashed the ils, and fell, 56-51.
open the second quarter, 20-15. boards and tipped in the ball “We struggled early to stop
From there, the Jaguars went with :01 remaining on the clock, their best driver and their best
on an 11-point unanswered run for the 69-67 victory. shooter,” said Coach Joe Alb-
to take a 26-20 lead. Southeast “The boys were resilient ertson. “Osage did a great job
Valley didn’t relent, as they out- throughout the game, and it defending, and we were out of
scored GHV 20-11 in the second showed in the final five seconds rhythm most of the game.”
quarter to take a 35-28 lead into of the game when our key op- Early in the first quarter, the
the half. tions were covered. Our boys Cardinals rolled, taking an early
“It never felt like we were in just made a play work,” said Al- 10-4 lead. Back-to-back threes
control of the game until the sec- bertson. by Osage knotted the score, 10-
ond half,” said Coach Joe Albert- Four players hit double fig- 10. The threes continued to fall
son. “We played much more ag- ures for the Cardinals. Cataldo for the Green Devils and they
gressively and faster in the third led the way with 18 points, fol- managed a 10-point lead, 21-11.
quarter, which made the differ- lowed by Betz with 16, James The Cardinals closed the gap to
ence.” added 12 and Joynt put in 11. six before halftime, 25-19.
The momentum swung to Betz and James were both hot Osage came back on fire and
the Cardinal’s favor in the third from behind the three-point line, took a 17-point lead, 38-21, with
quarter behind Sam Cataldo, each hitting four treys. Harley 4:10 remaining in the third quar-
who collected seven of GHV’s 26 Forry was 2/4 from the three- ter.
third quarter points. With 2:10 point line for six points on the The Cards started to battle
night. back from there and the defense
picked it up. Sam Cataldo, who
GHV senior Harley Forry looks for an open player down the floor in had only two points in the first GHV’s Nick Joynt (24) and Turner Albertson get ready to go after a loose ball against Osage. The Green
Saturday night’s matchup. half, began to find his groove. Devils topped the Cardinals in the final game before the State Tournament, 56-51.
Clear Lake’s Ryan Leisure captured his second State Tournament title. He wrestled at 138-poounds. Eric Faught, a freshman, finished as runner-up at 106-pounds in the State Tournament.
Congratulations to Clear Lake’s two State wrestlers
The Clear Lake Mirror-Reporter congratulates Clear Lake off of a re-start in the second overtime period to pin Creston/ dedicated to leading the Lions to another successful season
High School grapplers Ryan Leisure and Eric Faught on their Orient-Macksburg’s Wyatt Thompson and win the Class 2A next winter and will be highly favored to return to the State
outstanding performances at the Iowa High School 2016 State 138-pound title. Championships in 2017.
Wrestling Tournament in Des Moines. Faught, a freshman, finished as runner-up at 106-pounds. Last week’s edition of the Mirror-Reporter included mis-
Leisure (43-1) joins Joe Colon as the only two-time state He also had an exciting championship match, but suffered his spellings of the wrestlers’ names. The Reporter apologizes for
champion in school history. He earned his second State wres- first loss of the season in the 106-pound match to Matthew Ran- the error and looks forward to correctly reporting the achieve-
tling title in dramatic fashion. The Lion junior used a spladle done, of Assumption of Davenport, 5-4. Both wrestlers are ments of these competitors in the future!