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“If you had told me before the game Ben
(Mason) only gives up one run, I would have
liked our chances to walk away with a win.”
Clear Lake
Baseball Coach
Seth Thompson
Clear Lake Mirror-Reporter
Clear Lake Reporter
SPORTS
CALENDAR
Wednesday
•Clear Lake 9th grade baseball
home vs. Hampton-Dumont, 11
a.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V softball home vs. Dumont.
Clarion-Goldfield, 5:30 p.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V baseball home
vs. Clarion-Goldfield, 5:30 p.m.
•GHV JJV softball home vs. North
Union, 11 a.m.
•GHV JJV baseball home vs. North
Union, 11 a.m.
•GHV JV/V baseball at Bancroft,
5:30 p.m.
•GHV V/JV softball at Swea City, 6
p.m.
Thursday
•Clear Lake 9th grade baseball at
GHV, 11 a.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V softball home vs.
Forest City, 5:30 p.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V baseball home
vs. Lake Mills, 5:30 p.m.
Friday
•Clear Lake V baseball vs. Wa-
verley-Shell Rock at Saydel High
School, 12:30 p.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V softball at Web-
ster City, 5:30 p.m.
•GHV JJV softball at Bishop Gar-
rigan, 11 a.m.
•GHV JJV baseball at Bishop Gar-
rigan, 11 a.m.
•GHV V/JV softball home vs. Bish-
op Garrigan, 6 p.m.
•GHV JV/V baseball home vs.
Bishop Garrigan, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday
•Clear Lake V baseball at Saydel
High School, 12:30 p.m.
•Clear Lake V baseball at Ankeny,
5:30 p.m.
•GHV V softball tournament at
home, 9 a.m.
Monday
•Clear Lake 9th grade baseball at
Algona, noon
•Clear Lake JV/V baseball at Hum-
boldt, 5:30 p.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V softball at Hum-
boldt, 5:30 p.m.
•GHV JJV softball home vs. Hum-
boldt, 11 a.m.
•GHV JJV baseball home vs. Hum-
boldt, 11 a.m.
•GHV V softball DH home vs. North
Iowa, 6 p.m.
•GHV V baseball DH home vs.
North Iowa, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday
•Clear Lake 9th grade baseball
home vs. GHV, 11 a.m.
•Clear Lake JVV baseball home vs.
Bishop Garrigan, 5:30 p.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V softball home vs.
Newman, 5:30 p.m.
•GHV JJV baseball at Clear Lake,
11 a.m.
Lion
baseball
teams will
honor
veterans at
July 1 games
The Clear Lake baseball
team will be honoring all vet-
erans during its July 1 game
against Algona.
The junior varsity game
starts at 5:30 p.m., with the var-
sity game starting at 7:30 p.m.
Veterans attending “The Vets
Game” will be admitted free of
charge and will be honored dur-
ing the player introductions be-
fore the varsity game.
All fans are encouraged to
wear red, white and blue and/
or Clear Lake Lions baseball ap-
parel to the game to honor the
veterans as the teams kick off
the July 4th weekend.
Donations will be accepted
during the game, with the pro-
ceeds going to the local Veterans
Fund.
Rain date is the July 3 game
versus Webster City.
For more information con-
tact Dale Ludwig at 357-5235
or Dave Theiss at 357-3616.
June 24, 2015 • Page 13
A challenging week on the diamond
Pair of losses drop
Lions to No. 5 in 2A
Losses to Webster City and Ma- Webster City 7, CL 3
son City last week dropped the Lions Webster City handed Clear Lake
from second to fifth in Class 2A rat- their first conference loss Tuesday, 7-3.
ings released Monday. The Lions are The Lynx pounded out 12 hits
14-6 overall and 6-1 in North Central against Brandon Tofte and Ben Ma-
Conference play, tied with Hampton- son, while their pitcher, senior Daniel
Halko struck out 10, walked six and al-
lowed only four hits.
Webster City jumped out to a 4-1
CL 2, H-D 1
The Lions battled back in the sixth lead after the first inning and added an-
inning to record an important win over other run in the third. Ethan McHenry
Hampton-Dumont Monday, June 15. muscled a two-run homer for the Lions
The Lions scored two runs in the bot- in the fifth, only to have the Lynx an-
tom of the sixth, then shut H-D down swer with two more runs in the bottom
in the seventh for a 2-1 victory. of the frame.
“This was a huge win for us in “We let our guard down tonight
the race for the NCC conference title. and to Webster City’s credit they were
Hampton has been playing some really there to land some punches and just
good baseball and played well tonight. flat out played a better game than we
It was encouraging to see our guys did,” said Coach Thompson. “Their
battle back to get the lead,” said Coach pitcher was outstanding – I don’t re-
Seth Thompson. call any pitcher striking out 10 of our
The Lions got their lead-off bat- batters in a long, long time and when Matt Stephany takes a swing in Clear Lake’s close battle with Hampton-Dumont.-Reporter photo by Chris Barragy.
ter, Cooper Merrill on base to start you give the other team 10 outs with- Mason with two doubles and four hits,
the sixth, then moved him to second out putting the ball in play you don’t along with an RBI. Rowdy Yates had
with a base hit to centerfield by Parker usually have a very good chance to win. three runs batted in and Mitch Keeran
Truesdell. Brock Adams loaded the Tonight did not turn out as many had knocked in a pair of runs.
bases with a bunt single. After Mitch expected, but for some reason at Web- Merrill had two hits and scored
Keeran hit into a fielder’s choice, Ethan ster City we have come to expect the three wins. Matt Stephany had two
McHenry used a bunt single to score unexpected.” hits and two RBIs.
Merrill. Ben Mason’s sacrifice fly to Rowdy Yates had two hits for the Ethan McHenry picked up the
center allowed Truesdell to tag and Lions. Adams and McHenry were the win. The Gaels had seven hits and
score the winning run. only others to reach base on hits. McHenry struck out one.
“The two biggest hits we had that Tofte took the loss. He struck out “These kids have shown the abil-
inning were off of bunts, which was two, walked one and gave up five runs, ity to bounce back from disappointing
great to see as a coach because we have four of them earned, on six hits. Ma- games all season and this was a very
worked hard to get better at that part of son was also touched for six hits. He nice all-around game by our batters,
the game and tonight our ability to get struck out three and walked one. pitchers, and defense,” said Coach
those bunts down was the difference in
the game,” said Coach Thompson. Thompson. “Winning at Fort Dodge
CL 12, St. Ed’s 2 (5) is not an easy task, so when you can
The hits by Truesdell, Adams and The Lions responded to their first
McHenry were the only Lion hits in conference loss with a resounding win walk away with a five-inning, 10-run Ethan McHenry avoids the tag and slides safely into second. The Lion junior has been
the game. Thursday, June 17, over St. Ed’s. Clear victory you know you did some things a regular on the basepaths in recent games.-Reporter photo by Chris Barragy.
Adams was outstanding on the Lake topped the Gaels, 12-2, in five in- right.”
mound, allowing only two hits and no nings. CL 4, Forest City 2 to lift them to a 4-2 win over Forest Ethan McHenry continued to
earned runs. He struck out seven and The Lions got five extra base hits Clear Lake scored single runs in City Thursday in non-conference ac- swing a hot bat. The junior had two
walked two in seven innings of action. from four different batters, led by Ben the first, third, fifth and sixth innings tion. hits and three runs batted in to lead the
Lions.
Cooper Merrill picked up the win,
Wins elude Clear Lake girls against striking out seven and allowing only
top North Iowa softball teams three hits and two walks.
“Cooper was outstanding on the
mound tonight, only allowing two hits,
and our offense, although unspectacu-
lar, just kept pecking away inning by
inning to get a big win against a good
A win continued to elude the Clear lot of runners on base and are continu- Forest City team that will be a team
Lake softball team. The Lions (0-13) ing to work on capitalizing on all op- we could have to face during District
took the field against three teams this portunities,” said Coach Megan Young. play,” said Coach Thompson. “This was
week and while there were scoring op- a well-played game by both sides and a
portunities, errors were costly. nice win to get.”
St. Ed’s 10, CL 0
Inclement weather forced the can- Amanda Lansman fired a no-hitter Merrill and Adams also had two
cellation of games with Forest City and and helped top rated St. Edmond (2A) hits. Keeran, Mason, Yates and Trues-
Osage in the Mason City tournament. defeat the Lions, 10-0, in six innings dell smacked singles, with Truesdell’s
Monday’s game with Iowa Falls-Alden Wednesday, June 17. scoring a run.
was postponed until July 6. “We came out strong in the first
few innings, but it all came down to Mason City 1, CL 0
the sixth inning,” said Coach Young. The Lions couldn’t get any offense
H-D 10, CL 0
Hampton-Dumont rushed out “Fielding is improving, but we need to going against a tough Mason City squad
to an 8-0 lead after two innings and continue to shake off the errors.” Friday night.
went on to post a 10-2 North Central The Gaels scored 10 runs, five of “If you had told me before the game
Conference victory. The Lions settled them earned, with 11 hits off Brackey. Ben (Mason) only gives up one run, I
down after the rough start and scored would have liked our chances to walk
single runs in the third and fifth in- Mason City 13, CL 2 away with a win, but unfortunately we
nings, while holding the Bulldogs to Mason City (8-11) plated nine couldn’t get anything going offensively,”
two runs through seven innings. runs in the bottom of the first on their said Coach Thompson. “We are just go-
Reagan Brackey had the start on way to beating Clear Lake 13-2 in five ing through a stretch where the balls we
the mound and took the loss. She gave innings Thursday night at the Mohawk hit always seem to be at people and de-
up seven runs on six hits. She struck Softball Complex. fenses are making great plays, and when
out three and walked two. Kiersten “The first inning was a big one. you play over 30 games you are going
Ballson gave up six hits and walked two We ended up having too many miscues to see stretches like that. We had to en-
in four innings. in that inning,” said Coach Young. The dure 2 teams celebrating wins against us
The Lions had eight hits in the Lions had five errors in the contest. this week like they had just won a State
game, led by Erin O’Tool with three. Niles had two of the Lions’ three championship, so hopefully these kids
Michaela Nile had two hits, while hits in the game, as well as a stolen find ways to avoid giving many more
Brackey, Ballson, and Michala Ouver- base. Lexi Jones had the other Clear teams this year that satisfaction.”
son each had singles. Lake hit. The Lions managed just three hits.
“We began to get contact with the “The girls continue to fight to im- McHenry had two and Keeran provided
Clear Lake third baseman Katie Hewett goes all out to get her glove on an infield hit.- ball and get some good hits. We left a prove,” said Young. one. The Mohawks had seven hits in
Reporter photo by Chris Barragy. the win.
Hansmeier claims Clear Lake Amateur title at Veterans Memorial
Dan Hansmeier took a two-shot Jared Rowe each shot 69 heading into 1st Flight winners 76 3rd Flight winners 88 T4. Eric Losen 71-37--108
lead into the Championship 9 of the the final nine holes. Hansmeier went 1st Adam Brinkman 76 1st Bryce Lobdell 88 Zach Harris 71-37--108
Clear Lake Amateur held at Veterans on to shoot 36 for a 103 total to hold 2nd Matt Mixdorf 76 2nd John Mixdorf 89 T6. Bill Watson 74-36--110
Memorial Sunday, June 21, and fended off Rowe by two strokes and Monson 3rd Cody Schweinefus 3rd Joe Myers 67-36--103 Max Rohlfsen 73-37--110
off Jared Rowe and Luke Monson to by four strokes. Gross scores 69-36--105 T8. Brent Tarr 73-38--111
win the Clear Lake Amateur by two Last year’s champion, Eric Losen, 2nd Flight winners 81 1. Dan Hansmeier 69-38--107 Wes Buntenbach 71-40--111
strokes. finished in a tie for fourth with Zach 1st Kirby Schmidt 81 2. Jared Rowe 10. Bill Astor 74-40--114
Hansmeier finished the first Harris at 108. 2nd Jay Urdahl 82 3. Luke Monson 11. Jeremy Amosson 75-42--117
18-holes with a 67. Luke Monson and 3rd Kyle Calaguas 12. Tanner Storbeck 75-47--122