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SportsPage 10 • March 30, 2016 Clear Lake Mirror-Reporter

Clear Lake Reporter

SPORTS CALENDAR

Thursday •Baseball: Tues., April 5, home vs. Dakota
County Tech. College, 2 p.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V girls tennis home vs. St.
Edmond, 4:30 p.m. •Baseball: Sat.-Sun., April 2-3, home vs.
•Clear Lake JV/V girls track at Algona, 4:30 Viterbo University
p.m. •Softball: Sat.-Sun., April 2-3, at Bellevue
University
Friday •Softball: Tues., April 5, at Clarke Univer-
sity, 4 p.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V boys track at Waldorf
College Meet, 4:30 p.m. Sign-up now for 2016 Lions Youth Baseball Camp
•GHV V boys soccer home vs. Mason City,
5 p.m.

Saturday

•GHV trapshooting at New Hampton, 9 •Baseball: Wed., March 30, home vs. Uni- The Clear Lake Baseball Program will be hosting its 2016 Lions Youth Baseball lakeschools.org. The deadline to sign up is Monday, April 11. Because of the
a.m. versity of Nebraska at Kearney, 2 p.m. Camp on Monday, May 2, Tuesday, May 3, and Thursday, May 5 after school large numbers, it is recommended that grades 3-6 come at 4 p.m. to get signed
•Baseball: Fri.-Sun., April 1-3, home vs. from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Little League Complex. Any players Grades K-6 up and those in grades K-2 come at 4:15 p.m. For more information about the
Monday Pittsburg State University interested in having some fun while learning the game of baseball can find forms camp check the Facebook page at “Clear Lake Lions Baseball.” Pictured are
•Baseball: Tues., April 5, at University of to sign up in the Middle School or Elementary School offices. Any questions those who participated last year in the Clear Lake Baseball Program.
•Clear Lake JV/V boys tennis, home vs. Nebraska at Kearney, 6 p.m. about this camp can be directed to Coach Seth Thompson at sthompson@clear- -Submitted photo
Mason City, 4:15 p.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V girls tennis at Mason VITERBO Fishing Report
City, 4:15 p.m. •Baseball: Thurs., March 31, at Ashford
•Clear Lake V girls soccer home vs. Apling- University Fishing is good on Clear
ton-Parkersburg, 5:30 p.m. •Baseball: Sat.-Sun., April 2-3, at Waldorf
•GHV V boys golf home vs. Clarion-Gold- College Lake for Black Crappies
field, 4:15 p.m. The Iowa Department of Natu-
•GHV V girls girl at Clarion-Goldfield, 4:15 •Women’s Track & Field: Wed.-Sat., March ral Resources issues a weekly fishing ports of a few walleyes being caught
p.m. 30-April 2, at Texas Relays report in an effort to provide the lat- near the Ventura grade.
•GHV V girls & boys track at West Han- •Women’s Track & Field: Fri.-Sat., April est information. The weekly fishing •Channel Catfish - No Report:
cock, 4:15 p.m. 1-2, at VertKlasse Meeting report is compiled from information Fish near inlets and windblown shore-
•GHV V girls & boys soccer home vs. CAL, gathered from local bait shops, angler lines in the early season using cut bait,
5 p.m. •Baseball: Sat.-Sun., April 2-3, at South- creel surveys, and county and state worms or minnows.
western CC, 1 p.m. parks staff. •Bluegill - Fair: A few bluegills
Tuesday For lake locations, maps and have been caught in the canals. Use
other information, go to www.io- small ice jigs under a bobber or add a
•Clear Lake JV/V boys track at Eagle wadnr.gov/Fishing/FishingReports. split shot or two and vertical jig near
Grove, 4:30 p.m. aspx. structure.
•Clear Lake JV/V girls track home, 4:30 The fishing report for Clear •Muskellunge - No Report: Tar-
p.m. Lake is as follows: get shallow flats along the shoreline on
•Clear Lake V/JV soccer at Hudson, 5 p.m. Ice was reported out on Clear the east end of the lake. Use a jig and
•GHV V boys track at Eagle Grove, 4:30 Lake on March 16. minnow or a slow moving artificial.
p.m. •Walleye - Fair: Anglers have •Black Crappie - Good: Crappies
had some success with keeper size have been caught in the canals. Use
•Women’s & Men’s Track & Field: Fri.-Sat., •Baseball: Fri.-Sat., April 1-2, home vs. Lo- Marroquin signs with NIACC males and an occasional bigger one small ice jigs under a bobber or add a
April 1-2, at Stanford Invitational, Palo Alto, ras College wading the east shoreline. Walleye split shot or two and vertical jig near
Calif. •Baseball: Tues., April 5, home vs. Coe Ezra Marroquin, a senior at Garner-Hayfield-Ventura High School, signed his activity will pick up in the coming structure. Check the edges or inside
College, 3:30 p.m. letter of intent to run track at North Iowa Area Community College for the weeks. Use jig and minnow combi- the rushes around the lake as crappies
2016-2017 season. Marroquin has been a state qualifier in the 100, 200, 400 nations, fished very slow. Some re- will likely be found near them as well.
•Softball: Wed., March 30, at Iowa Lakes, •Men’s Track & Field: Fri.-Sat., April 1-2, and the 4x100 meter relay team. Marroquin also has the second fastest time in
2 p.m. home Wartburg Outdoor Select the 400, the seventh fastest time in the 100 and the eleventh fastest time in the
•Baseball: Wed., March 30, at Clarke Uni- 200 in school history. He is the son of Rosemary Parker. -Submitted photo
versity, 3 p.m. Area athletes playing in a college sport
•Women’s & Men’s Track & Field: Fri.-Sat., include: Spencer Davidson, CL, Golf, NIACC; Annual J. Brooks Walk-A-Block in
April 1-2, at Wartburg College Select Invi- Sola Stephenson, GHV, Track & Field, NIACC;
tational Alex VanderPloeg, CL, Track & Field, NIACC; Clear Lake this weekend Tips for managing road
•Softball: Sat., April 2, at Ellsworth, 1 p.m. Rebecca Long, CL, Golf, NIACC; Joel Toppin, Residents throughout North will follow the walk. From 9-10 a.m.,
•Baseball: Sat.-Sun., April 2-3, home vs. GHV, Wartburg, Track & Field; Michael & Mitch- Iowa are invited to join radio person- a resource reception will take place in sides for upland wildlife
DMACC ell Keeran, CL, Baseball, Waldorf; Sara Barlow, ality J. Brooks of 98.7 KISS Country the Lakeview Room directly behind
•Softball: Sun., April 3, home vs. South- CL, Softball, Waldorf; Tanner Truesdell, CL, and the Opportunity Village Chil- the City Park bandshell. Area autism Iowa has more than 1.6 million vent the invasion of noxious weeds
western, noon Baseball, BVU; Brock Adams & Gavin Sheakley, dren’s Autism Center to celebrate au- supports and services will be present acres of road right-of-ways and when because of their deep root systems.
•Women’s & Men’s Golf: Mon., April 4, at CL, Baseball, Kirkwood; Dasiana Larson, GHV, tism advocacy at the third annual J. to visit and answer questions. properly managed these roadsides •Conduct rotational burns. Rota-
Iowa Wesleyan Invitational Track & Field, Liberty University; Rowdy Yates, Brooks Walk-A-Block fundraiser on All proceeds from the walk go provide important nesting, roost- tional burning is the practice of burn-
CL, Baseball, Viterbo University; Ozzie Adams, Saturday, April 2. toward services provided by Oppor- ing, and escape habitat for pheasants, ing separate portions of the road ditch
CL, Baseball, Northwest Missouri St.; Chandler This year’s walk will be held from tunity Village Children’s Autism Cen- partridge, quail, ducks, rabbits and in different years. This rejuvenates the
Diercks, CL, & Andrea Toppin, Ventura, Track & 9-11 a.m. at City Park in Clear Lake. ter to local families of children with many different songbirds. Unfor- grasses in the burned segment, while
Field, ISU. In honor of Autism Awareness Month, autism. tunately, ill-timed burning and in- the unburned segment provides undis-
participants will join other friends and Individuals wishing to participate discriminate mowing destroys many turbed nesting and escape habitat for
VFW holds Bean Bag Tournament supporters to walk a block around the should register at www.jbrookswalka- nests and young each year. wildlife. A popular scenario is to burn
park. block.org. Cost is $20 for adults and Most nests are placed in late one side of the ditch one year and the
The VFW Post 4868 held their weekly Bean Bag Tournament on Wednesday, Registration starts at 9 a.m. and $5 for children 12 and under. Partici- April and early May using the old other side the next year. Some safety
March 23. The winner of the Afternoon Singles Match was Stu Parr and Kevin the walk starts at 10 a.m. A balloon pants can register at the event. dead vegetation that remains from precautions should be followed when
Nye was the runner-up. The Doubles Match winners were Gordy Wiemann and release from the Clear Lake Sea Wall the previous year. Burning from burning roadsides: contact neighbors,
Dave Carney. Wayne Huntley and Steve Raber were second. mid-April through June destroys utility company, and the fire depart-
nests and eggs, while mowing in June ment before burning. Be careful of
Functional, Stylish Garage Doors and July kills hens and chicks. roadside utility poles, telephone junc-
“Burning can be very beneficial tion boxes and pipelines.
Count on us every time to wildlife if done at the right time •Avoid burning of roadsides in
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