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Sports/OutdoorsPage 12 • April 27, 2016
Clear Lake Mirror-Reporter

CL soccer team falls to Lion JV boys B
Mason City; tops A-P soccer team drops
close matches Accounting
Mason City 8, CL 0
On Tuesday, April 19, the Lions faced their toughest chal- The young Lion JV soccer team traveled to 507 Main Ave.,
lenge of the year without starting goalie Ellie Biebesheimer. Waverly Tuesday night, April 19, to take on the
The Mohawks were able to score eight times and held the Li- Go-Hawks. Waverly consistently is one of the bet- www.ho
ons scoreless. ter teams in the state, which is reflected in their JV
“Mason City has a nice team who is probably used to a teams, as well. Assisted L
more physical game then we had seen up to that point. With The Lions fought hard right from the start, as
that said, our team adapted as the game played on,” said Coach the Go-Hawk offense pressured the Lion defense The Perfect Pl
Steve Faber. “I was proud of our kids and their willingness to several times. The defenders kept their positions
continue challenging Mason City to the very end. This experi- and helped each other out and managed to keep 405 27th Ave
ence will definitely help us as the season continues.” Waverly out of the net the first half. Freshman 641-357-7083
goalie Joel Groeneweg had another good game, as
CL 1, A-P 0 The Clear Lake girls soccer team was shut-out by Mason City, 8-0, in a home contest on Tuesday, he made seven saves by intermission. and: 300 L
The Lions got their third win of the season, 1-0, over Ap- April 19. Pictured for Clear Lake is Bailey Maulsby (#12). -Reporter photo by Chris Barragy The Lion offense mounted their own attack at 64
lington-Parkersburg Friday, April 22. the Waverly goal the second half. Ben Finn had a
The match was tied 0-0 when Erin O’Tool scored in the shot on goal and Ian Gonzalez had a couple more Auto Repai
27th minute of the second half for the Lions. O’Tool found shots, but the Waverly goalie was able to stymie
the back of the net on a nice fading shot from outside the the Lions. Clear Lake’s defenders again held the DON’S B
goalie’s box with an assist from Rissa Barragy. Go-Hawks scoreless until 10 minutes to play in the
O’Tool took four shots on goal in the game. Maddy second half when they finally broke through for a •Quality & Exp
Wendell had two shot on goal, while Milo Dugan, Katelyn goal. The final score ended at 3-0, but not without •Auto
Moore and Jessica Faber each took one shot on goal. a strong battle from the Lions.
The Lion defense did the rest. •Repairin
Goal keeper Ellie Biebesheimer had two saves in the game. Webster City 2, CL 1 •Insura
Coach Faber noted Lizzie Lakose and Bianca Dodd pro- Playing their first game in front of their home
vided valuable minutes off the bench. crowd, the young Lions were ready to roar Thurs- 304 S. 20th
day night, April 21, against Webster City. The Lion 35
Three losses for Clear Lake boys soccer team offense controlled the ball much of the game and
The Clear Lake boys soccer team played quality in the match with the Lynx’s winning 3-0. well and seemed to be off to a great start. The half- kept the pressure on the Lynx defense. Lake Au
soccer, but suffered three losses last week to go to “I thought the boys responded really well in time score was 0-0 due only to the numerous missed The Lion attack was led by Sean Wendel with
1-5. the second half. After having such an ugly start it shots the Lions had on their goal. five shots on goal, followed by Ben Finn with two 712 Buddy H
“We didn’t get off to the start we wanted to this would have been easy for the team to fold up. I In the second half Ryan Faught got Clear Lake more. Eric Faught, David Lincicum and Will (64
year. Contrary to our record we are a talented group was pleased with how the boys endured and pushed on the score board when he gathered up a loose ball Kirschbaum also had shots on the Lynx goalie but
and we’ll make a realistic push at playing in June,” through finishing the second half more aggressive and placed it in the back of the net. The Lions held were turned away. (1 block Sout
said Coach Matt Anderson. and with a chip on their shoulders.” a 1-0 lead for the rest of the match until Boone After a scoreless first half, Webster City scored
W-SR 4, CL 0 Boone tournament scored with less than three minutes remaining in in the second half to make it 1-0. Then, after an
The Lions traveled to Waverly Shell Rock Tues- The Lions traveled to Boone to participate in a the match. unfortunate foul in the ‘18’ box, the Lynx were
day, April 19. The Lions played 39 minutes of four team tournament on Saturday. The tourney Due to tournament rules there was no overtime awarded a penalty kick which they converted, mak-
flawless soccer in the first half, but with :18 seconds featured competition from larger schools and Clear and the team went directly to a shoot out. Boone ing the score 2-0 in their favor.
remaining in the first half gave up a late goal and Lake was matched up with 3A Des Moines North in eventually took the match with their seventh shoot- Showing their resolve the Lions didn’t give up
gave the Go Hawks a 1-0 lead at halftime. the opening match. er converting a sudden death goal. the fight and kept battling. With much improved
The Go Hawks came out of the half with mo- “Des Moines North’s starting roster consists “This was a hard loss to take as I felt we played passing, the offensive side of the field worked the
mentum and owned possession of the ball for much of 11 players from 11 different countries, certainly better throughout the match,” said Anderson. ball down close to the Lynx goal. A nifty pass-
of the second half. The contest concluded, 4-0. making them the most diversified team we’ve ever “Even with this tough loss we gained some serious ing combination from Will Finn to Ben Stroup to
“We had some really bright moments in this played,” said Coach Anderson. “In addition to their experience that you can not replicate at practice. Braden Byrnes gave Byrnes a clear shot at the goal
match against a quality opponent. I am hopeful diversity, Des Moines North is the most talented We worked on our penalty kicks the week prior which he converted, putting the ball in the right
we’ll continue to build on the first 39 minutes and team we’ve played this season.” at practice and knew exactly what order the boys side of the net.
play at this level for a full 80 minutes by the end of The Lions missed on a couple of open attempts would kick. The wear and tear of two games back The Lions pressure was unable to push another
the season,” said Coach Matt Anderson. to score and had an equalizer goal go unrecorded in to back and the pressure of the shoot out ended up goal into the net so the score ended 2-1 in favor of
Webster City 3, CL 0 the second half— “ all things which will bite you in being too much for Webster City.
A motivated Webster City Lynx team came to the end when playing such high level competition,” us this time around.
town Thursday, April 21. said Anderson. We have a very solid 641-
The Lions gave up two penalty kicks and a 40- Contrary to the final 3-0 score, the match was group of kickers and 11201 265th St.
yard floater all in the first half for a 3-0 Lynx lead. very close through out. our goal keeper Kyle
“Webster City won nearly every 50/50 ball and “We came out ready to play, we were aggressive, Willms did a great
were more physical than us the entire first half,” said we communicated, we passed the ball well, most job of getting a hand
Coach Anderson. “They just wanted it more than importantly we got better,” said the coach. on several of Boone’s
we did.” The second match of the tournament against kicks. I’ll be nervous-
As it ended up, the first half was the difference Boone got of to an early start leaving the Lions with ly excited to see how
a very short recovery time. Despite that, Clear Lake we perform if we’re
owned possession of the ball, distributed the ball in another shoot out
this year.”

Clear Lake MS boys track team off to a good start Auto Deale

Clear Lake Middle School boys track son Barragy, Anderson and Kearns. Jones and Nathan Lollar were third and EST. P RITCH
teams got off to a good start April 22. The The Lions placed first and third in the fourth in 1:14.89 and 1:16.22. An-
Lions competed at Hampton against Clari- 4x400. Theo Swanson, Barragy, Soto drew Formanek was the winner in the Au P
on-Goldfield-Dows, Hampton-Dumont and and Arndt won in a time of 4:39.21. long jump with a mark of 14’3”, while tFoa m
West Fork. The team of Loge, Pedelty, Starbeck Paul Bruns was sixth in the event in st
“We had a great outing for our first and Anthony Aragon was third in 13’5”. Bruns was also third in the high
track meet. All of the boys ran hard and 5:09.74. jump and Justin Wright was fourth, Banks
turned left,” said Coach Gary Weber. The Distance Medley team of Bar- both clearing 4’4”.
Eighth grade results ragy, Kearns, Breken and Soto was also Other top six individual finishes
Members of the Clear Lake eighth grade a winner in 4:23.60. included: Justin Wright and Sam Nel-
track team won 10 of 18 events at Hampton. The Sprint Medley relay with An- son, third and fourth in the 1600 in
Jacob Pedelty posted a pair of top fin- derson, Thomas, Kearns and Arndt 5:55.71 and 6:17.46; Ethan Kavana-
ishes. He won the 400 meter dash in 1:04.59 placed second in 2:00.29. The Lions ugh, sixth in the 100 meters in 16.51;
and teammate Anthony Aragon was second were also fourth in the event with Aus- Rich Gavin, fifth in the 800 in 3:08.81;
in 1:07.29. He also captured the 1600 me- tin Larson, DeVries, O’Tool and Ara-
ters in a time of 5:52.73. The Lions swept gon in 2:09.76. Top three relay finishes were record-
the top three finishes in the event as Jackson The 4x400 relay of Bryce Mc- ed by:
Loge was second in 6:37.27 and Alex Star- Clure, Levenhagen, Larson and O’Tool •4x800 team, first place: Nathan Lol-
beck was third in 6:44.82. Max Soto fin- placed third in 59.39. lar, Noah Peterson, Jordon Bergman, Ste-
ished first in the 800 meter run in a time of Seventh grade results ven Faltas, 1:11.17
2:32.47 and Loge placed sixth in 3:05.31. Eric Ritter tallied a win and run- •Sprint Medley: first place: Noah Pe-
In the 100 meter dash, Austin Larson ner-up finish among seventh graders terson, Josh Blahah, Bruns, Formanek,
placed second with a time of 14.57. Jaylen competing at the meet. Ritter won 2:09.28; third place, Thomas Gansen,
DeVries and Cameron Levenhagen placed the 100 hurdles in 18.41 and was sec- Caden Jones, Ty Fisher, Jacob Evans,
third and fourth respectively in 14.99 and ond in the 200 hurdles in 33.94. Two 2:20.58
15.85. other Lions, Waylon Kirschbaum and •Distance Medley, second: Andrew
The hurdles were a strong event for the Andrew Crane, placed fourth and fifth Formanek, Noah Peterson, Paul Bruns,
Lions, as Mitchell Raber was second in the in the 100 hurdles. PJ Feuerbach also Justin Wright, 4:42.42
100 hurdles in 18.30 and Tim Swanson was earned a win for the Lions in the 400 •4x110 Shuttle Hurdle, third: Blahah,
fifth in 19.64. In the 200 hurdles, Raber fin- meter dash, running a 1:11.61. Caden Feuerbach, Crane, Ritter, 1:24.33.
ished second in 30.13 and Zane Anderson
was third in 30.68. •4x100 team, third place: Fisher,
In field events, Anderson was the win- Faltas, Jacob Evans and Bergman,
ner in the high jump, clearing 4’8”. Faber 1:02.08
was third with a leap of 4’6”. Kody Kearns
topped the field in the long jump with a mark •Shot put: Carson Krefft, fifth, 27’6”
of 15’8.25” and Soto was third at 14’8”. Lev- •Discus: Fisher, fifth, 75’7”
enhagen won the shot put with a toss of 42’.
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