QB Josh Kern

With his first season as a starter behind him and a major college commitment in his pocket, Clark quarterback Josh Kern is ready to get the 2011 football season underway. Express News reporter Pat Turner files this profile on Kern.

PLEASE NOTE: Contrary to the report, Ryan Jones and Hunter Anderson are both graduating and will not be playing with Kern next season. Among others, Kern’s receivers will be Brandon Yates, Troy Ogletree, Chase Jones, Presley Miller and tight end Alex Hunter.

Evan Mills

Senior football player Evan Mills is the recipient of the 2011 Clark Texas Football Club Scholarship. Mills, an offensive lineman for the Cougars, will be attending Texas State University in San Marcos. The $3000 scholarship is awarded each spring to a deserving student chosen by the alumni group.

The Clark Texas Football Club is a group of former Cougar football players who continue to support the football program in a variety of ways. Most of the scholarship money is raised through their end of summer golf tournament.

Congratulations Evan!

Megan Martinez, Megan Aragones, Dani Nash

Clark softball is sending at least three players into the college ranks next season. In a ceremony before a packed house of friends and family on Thursday, seniors Megan Martinez, Megan Aragones and Dani Nash all signed on to play college ball. Megan Martinez, who played 3rd base for the Cougars, will head to Mississippi Valley State next year. Megan is the daughter of Isabella Meza and she’ll study Biology Pre-Med in college. Megan Aragones, a utility player and pitcher for Clark, will play at the University of Texas at Dallas where she’ll study Kinesiology. Megan is the daughter of Anne Herrera and Chip Aragones. Dani Nash, who plays in the outfield, signed with Navarro College in Corsicana. She plans to get her Associates Degree in Paralegal Studies while there. Dani is the daughter of Elaine and Tod Nash.

Clark coach D’Layne Kelly said the three had worked hard for this moment and she was proud of each one of them.

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Shaneve Swift

2010 Clark graduate Shaneve Swift is continuing on with her winning ways as part of the Incarnate Word University 4x100m relay team that qualified for the Division II National Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a time of 46.49.  They will be traveling to California next week to race against 12 other teams, the fastest with a qualifying time of 44.36.

The meet will be streamed live at NCAA.com and highlights will be shown on CBS HD at 4 p.m. ET Sunday, June 19th.

Congratulations Shaneve!

Clark grad Carl O’Neal has become a real pitching asset for St. Mary’s baseball. He and the Rattlers have their sights set on the NCAA Div II Championships. Read more in the Express News.

Good Luck Carl!

Cameron Dullnig

Clark grad  Cameron Dullnig is having a productive baseball season at Western Carolina University. Read about a recent 3 game series  in the Express News “Postcard Home” .

Clark’s district champion baseball team steps into the playoffs this week beginning on Thursday against Southwest. The play off schedule looks like this: Thursday, May 5, 7:30 at Northside #2; Friday, May 6, 7:30 at Southwest. If game 3 is  necessary, Saturday, May 7, time TBA at NS#2.

The playoffs ended too soon for Clark’s softball team. Following a close opening loss, 8-7, on Friday against East Central, the Cougars had a big win in the second game, 15-4, but lost another close one, 6-4, immediately after that. Congratulations, though, on what was a great season.

Clark is sending several athletes to the Regional Track and Field Meet at Alamo Stadium beginning today and concluding on Tuesday.

Good luck to all the Cougars!

Clark Cougars

Clark softball opens their 2011 playoff run with a 7:00pm game against East Central tonight at Northside field. It’s the first of a 3 game series that will be continued at East Central tomorrow at noon with a third game to follow immediately, if necessary. This is the 4th consecutive season that Clark’s softball program, led by Coach D’Layne Kelly, has been to the playoffs.

At 7:30 tonight, also at Northside, Clark’s District Champion baseball team plays its final regular season game against O’Connor. O’Connor is battling to maintain its second place spot in district. Playoffs begin next week against either Southwest or South San.

So pick your Cougar game or run between both! GO COOGS!!

District 27 5A CHAMPIONS!

Clark baseball defeated Holmes 13-2 in 5 innings of play to become District Champs for the second time in school history.   Once again the story of the game was the Clark bats – and what a story they told.   Clark had a total of 12 hits for the game with several standouts.  Coming into the 3rd inning, Ed Moore led off with a double.  He was followed at the plate by John Henderson who hit a double and scored Moore.  Next up was Jason Cervantes who singled.  Hunter McFall stepped into the batters box and hit a sacrifice to deep center to score Henderson.  Braden Mattson was up next and on a 1 ball, 1 strike count, hit a bomb over the left center field fence.  The inning ended with the score, Clark 4, Holmes 2.  In the 4th inning, the bats continued to crack.  With 2 outs , and 3 runners on base, McFall stepped into the batters box and delivered a single that drove in Moore and Henderson, leaving McFall and Cervantes on base.  Mattson stepped into the box and delivered a deep double to left field fence, which scored the base runners.  Chad Dullnig reached base on an error which also scored Mattson.  The 4th inning ended with a score Clark 9, Holmes 2.  In the 5th inning, Robert Martin led off with a walk, and scored on a double by Moore.  Henderson got on base with a walk and Cervantes single scored him.  McFall singled to score Cervantes and the Cougars quickly had 4 more runs.   Starting on the mound for the Cougars was Ryan Skowronski who pitched 2 innings, giving up 2 runs. (continue reading…)

For the 4th year in a row the Clark softball team is heading into the playoffs. The Cougars finished 3rd in district and will face East Central in a best of three series. The schedule looks like this:

Game 1 – Friday, April 29 – 7:00 @ Northside Field 1

Game 2 – Saturday, April 30 – 12:00 noon @ East Central HS

Game 3 – if necessary – 30 minutes after game 2

Make plans to attend and cheer the girls on!