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Clear Lake Reporter

SPORTS
CALENDAR

Wednesday

•Clear Lake JV/V baseball at Clarion-Gold-
field, 5:30 p.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V softball at Clarion-Gold-
field, 5:30 p.m.
•GHV JJV baseball at North Union, 11 a.m.
•GHV JJV softball at North Union, 11 a.m.
•GHV JV/V baseball home vs. North Union,
5:30 p.m.
•GHV V/JV softball home vs. North Union,
6 p.m.

Thursday

•Clear Lake 9th grade baseball home vs. Clear Lake’s Carney Frahm plays infield for the Lions during the Waverly-Shell Rock game played Friday
Forest City, 11 a.m. night. The Go-Hawks topped the Lions, 8-0. -Reporter photo by Chris Barragy
•Clear Lake JV/V baseball at Central
Springs, 5:30 p.m.
•Clear Lake JV/V softball home vs. St. Ed-
mond, 5:30 p.m.
•GHV JJV softball at Algona, noon
•GHV JV/V baseball at Rockford, 4 p.m.
•GHV JV/V softball at Humboldt, 5:30 p.m.

Friday

•GHV JJV baseball home vs. Bishop Gar-

Tough start to the season forrigan, 11 a.m.
•GHV JJV softball home vs. Bishop Gar- Clear Lake pitcher Brock Adams fires one over the plate -Reporter photo by Chris Barragy
rigan, 11 a.m.
Lions upset in season opener;
Clear Lake softball team•GHV JV/V baseball at Bishop Garrigan,

5:30 p.m.
•GHV V/JV softball at Bishop Garrigan, 6
p.m. The Clear Lake softball team started the mound. She threw three innings, giving up six rally to pick up two wins
season last week with two games. The first was hits. Two of the Bulldogs’ 12 runs were earned
Saturday shortened by the 10-run rule; the second game while Brackey was on the mound. Kiersten Baal-

•Clear Lake V baseball tournament at Ma- was stopped early due to lightning. son threw one inning and gave up one hit and The Clear Lake baseball team, ranked they have to be patient and just keep working
one unearned run. number one in the Class 2A pre-season rank- hard and eventually they will iron out these
son City, 2 p.m. ing, got the season off to a wild start last week. early-season wrinkles. Brock pitched well
•GHV V baseball tournament at Humboldt, Hampton-Dumont 13, CL 1 (4) The Lions were upset in their opener by un- enough to win and on most nights with our
The Lions dropped their season opener with ranked Charles City, but bounced back with offense giving up two runs would get a pitcher
10 a.m. a 13-1 four-inning loss at Hampton-Dumont in W-SR 8, CL 0 an extra-inning win over perennial Class 1A a win but on this night it unfortunately it was
•GHV V softball tournament at Lake Mills, North Central Conference play. The Lions played six innings against Waver- power Newman Catholic and Cedar Falls to not enough.”
10 a.m. Coach Megan Young noted the game was ly-Shell Rock Friday night before rain and light- go 2-1.
not as lopsided as the score makes it appear. ning stopped played. “It is tough to keep people’s expectations CL 8, Newman 7
Monday “Three batters were hit by pitches, allowing “The girls played great tonight, we just had down when they put a number one ranking “We love to play a good team and we love
us to get the bases loaded. We had runners in some tough breaks,” said Coach Megan Young. on your back to start the season, but this team to play close games, and we got to do both
•Clear Lake 9th grade baseball at Central scoring position and opportunities to score, but “WSR was able to hit the gaps. We were able to knows that ranking doesn’t mean a thing at of those tonight,” said Coach Thompson af-
Springs, 10 a.m. we were unable to capitalize on it,” she said. get some good at-bats and began hitting the ball this point of the year,” said Clear Lake Coach ter the Lions earned an 8-7 victory in nine-
•Clear Lake JV/V baseball home vs. Hum- The Bulldogs got off to a quick start, scor- Seth Thompson. “We also know that we may innings over Newman Catholic Friday night.
boldt, 5:30 p.m. ing six times in the opening frame. They added lose a few more games than in the past, hav- “We showed how good we are by jump-
three more in the second, one in the third and ing put 10 4A games on the schedule, but we ing out to a 7-0 lead and then they showed us
•Clear Lake JV/V softball home vs. Hum- three in the fourth. until the rain began.” feel playing good teams makes us a better team a little something by coming back to tie it at
boldt, 5:30 p.m. The Lions scored one run in the top of the Both teams were scoreless after two innings. once Districts role around and that is really 7-7.”
•GHV JJV/JV softball home vs. Osage, 11 fourth. Tori Fyfe scored after reaching base on a The Go-Hawks had a big third inning, putting the primary focus of this team. There is no The coach admitted he put senior Cooper
a.m. double. She scored on a ball put in [play by Ka- six runs on the board. They added two more in team in Class 2A with a tougher schedule and Merrill in a tough spot for his first time on the
•GHV JJV/JV baseball home vs. Osage, I think these kids are ready and excited to take mound as a Lion, coming into a tense game
on that challenge.” in the seventh inning. “After he used a couple
11 a.m. the fifth. Charles City 2, CL 1 pitches to clean out his cannon, I couldn’t
•GHV V baseball double header at Osage, Lexi Jones and Chloe Mueller each had hits The high school baseball season started have been more impressed by his ability to
5:30 p.m. for the Lions. Thursday, May 25, with Charles City knock- keep his composure and keep a good team off
•GHV V softball double header at Osage, Reagan Brackey threw four innings, giv- ing off Clear Lake, 2-1. the board for over two innings of high-stress
6 p.m. tie Hewett. Michaela Niles and Michaela Ou- ing up three hits, stroking out three and walk- Charles City took advantage of four Clear baseball.”
verson also had hits for the Lions. Niles’ hit was ing three. Kiersten Baalson gave up 10 hits in Lake errors in the contest, with both of their The Lions scored three times in the first
Tuesday runs being unearned against Brock Adams, inning and added three more in the fourth and
who took the loss after striking out six. one in the fifth before Newman roared back
•Clear Lake JV/V baseball home vs. West also a double. two innings on the mound. She walked one and Connor Stallsmith started the third in- with four runs in the bottom of the fifth to
Fork, 5:30 p.m. Reagan Brackey took the loss on the struck out two. ning being hit by a pitch and advanced to make the score 7-5. The Knights rallied with
third on a sacrifice attempt with two throwing three runs in the bottom of the seventh to
•GHV JV/V baseball at Hampton-Dumont, errors on the play. He later scored on an RBI force extra innings.
groundout by Nate Lasher. The Lion offense was led by senior Brock
5:30 p.m. GHV girls fall to Gilbert Clear Lake tied the game in the bottom Adams, who had three hits, an RBI and stolen
of the third with an RBI single by Mitch Keer- base. He narrowly missed a grand slam in the
At Glens’ we treat every car like an The Garner-Hayfield/Ventura girls soccer team encoun- an. fourth inning, when the ball skimmed the top
tered a tough team on Thursday, May 28, when they faced Charles City scored their other run on a of the right field fence and fell back into the
award winner! Gilbert, who is rated #14 in Class 1A. The Cardinals gave bad throw to first allowing Caleb Hageman to field of play.
it their all, holding Gilbert to just one goal. Unfortunately, score from second. Brandon Tofte had a pair of hits and one
GHV didn’t score, for the final 1-0 loss. Levi Blaine picked up the win for the RBI for the Lions in three at-bats. He was
“For us to get this program where we want it to be we Comets, striking out seven and allowing only the starting pitcher in the contest, giving up
have to play these good teams. I think tonight we proved four hits in the contest. four runs on five hits. He struck out four and
to ourselves and other teams that we can play with the best “It was disappointing to see our offense walked four in five innings pitched.
teams around,” said Coach Josh Banse. only put up one run on four hits, but their Merrill got the win on the mound, throw-
Banse praised the play of his defense, Mackenzie Haag, pitcher did a nice job of changing speeds and ing two and one-third innings. He walked
Hannah Lau, Riannan Kadrlik, Katie Rasmuson and Brook- his ball had some good movement,” said Clear two and struck out one.
lyn Laird. Lake Coach Seth Thompson.
He also praised goalie Sam Betz, who had nine saves for Designated hitter Ethan McHenry had CL 11, Cedar Falls 5
the night. two hits for the Lions. Ben Mason and Keeran The Lions hosted Cedar Falls Monday,
“Sam had the best game that I have seen her play in provided the only others. May 29, for a non-conference game. Clear
three years,” said Banse. “We were hardly perfect in any facet of the Lake scored runs in bunches on their way to
The Cardinals had their chances to win the game at the game, but I told the kids after the game that an 11-5 win.
Hwy. 18 West, Clear Lake end of regulation, they just came up short. “It was very encouraging to see our of-
(641) 357-7117 Emily Spilman had three shots on goal, while Payton
fense be able to apply constant pres-
Monday-Friday • 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Bamrick had two shots on goal and Jacki Van Oort had one. sure early in the game against a good
“I think this is exactly the kind of confidence booster Cedar Falls team. We usually don’t
Saturday • 8:00 a.m. -Noon we needed, even though it was a loss. Hopefully we can see that kind of offense until the
www.glenstireservice.com second or third week,” said Coach
keep this kind of Thompson. “Coach Uhlenhopp has
play going. If we been working hard to get our hitters
can, we will be mentally and physically prepared this
set to make some See CL BASEBALL on page 14
noise in the Re-
gional bracket,”
said Banse.

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