The Clark boys track and field team placed 3rd at the District Meet this week and will send several athletes to the Regional Meet. Top results included: 2nd place for Brandon Yates in the 200 meter (22.08), 2nd place for Ben Deschner in the 400 meter (51.77), 3rd place for Austin Wells in the 1600 meter (4:28.27) and 2nd place for Wells in the 3200 meter (9:35.95), 1st place for Kyle Rutledge in the High Jump (6’2″), 2nd place for Jimmy Kueber in the Shot Put (48′ 9.5″), 2nd place for Kueber in the Discus (148′ 5″), 2nd place for the 4×100 Relay (42.38) and 2nd place for the 4×200 Relay (1:29.38) – Relay team is Brian Socha, Brandon Yates, Travis Cooke and Malcolm Eatman. (continue reading…)

Clark baseball enjoys big win

Thursday night, Clark defeated Stevens 6-2 to remain in 1st place in District and is now assured of at least a share of the District Championship. The Falcons jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first inning – but those were the last runs that Clark allowed.  In the 2nd inning, Clark bats responded.  Matt Cohen started off the inning with a single.  Chris Werland moved Cohen to 2nd on a sacrifice bunt.  Robert Martin stepped into the batters box and with a 1 ball, 2 strike count, hit a home run over the left field fence – scoring himself and Cohen.  Next up was Ed Moore who hit a blooper between the pitcher and 2nd baseman and he beat out the throw to 1st base.   (continue reading…)

Several Clark tennis players advanced to play in the Regional tournament. Boys Singles stand outs Justin Randell and David Starck qualified, as did the Boys Doubles team of Jacob Frisbee and Gavan Grival. Also moving on is the Mixed Doubles team of Sarah Howard and Richie DeJesus and, as reporter Pat Turner explains in this Express-News feature, these two friends go way back.

The Regional tournament will be held at the McFarlin Tennis Center  April 19-20. GOOD LUCK TENNIS!

The Clark boys golf team had a great showing at the District 27-5A  tournament on Tuesday and as a result will represent the district at the Regional Tournament next week in McAllen. Clark’s #1 team placed 2nd in district with a score of 656. O’Connor placed first and will join the Cougars at the Regional tourney.

Top individual for Clark in the district tournament was Jeremy Gordon who shot a 160 and Andrew Gold with a 163. Congratulations to all the golfers and good luck at Regionals!

GO COOGS!

Clark Baseball picked up its 11th District win of the season on Friday beating Jay 14-9.  The game got off to a rough start with Clark errors and a bases loaded grand slam in the top of the 3rd inning leaving Clark facing an 8-0 deficit.  Clark slowly began to battle back, scoring 3 runs in the 3rd inning and 2 runs in the 4th.  But Clark really woke up in the bottom of the 6th inning – recording 9 runs to take the lead.  Starting on the mound for the Cougars was Chad Dullnig, who pitched 2 2/3 innings.  Chris Werland came in to bring the 3rd inning to a close and pitched the 4th-6th inning, giving up only 1 run.  Matt Cohen came in to close the game  in the top of the 7th inning and got 3 quick outs.  Clark had a total of 15 hits for the game.  Notables: Jason Cervantes went 4-4, with a 2-run home run.  Hunter McFall, Braden Mattson, Werland, and Robert Martin each had 2 hits, with Dullnig, Cohen, and Ryan Skowronski with one hit each.

Clark remains in 1st place in District and will face Warren on Tue, Apr 12 at 4:45pm on NS#2.

The Clark softball team blanked Stevens on Friday 7-0, but waited until the 5th inning to make it happen. Clark and Stevens were locked in a scoreless tie until the 5th when the Cougars bats woke up and 6 runs were scored. They added one more run in the 6th and held off Stevens throughout to get the win. Pitcher Henessey Soto picked up her 13th win of the season.

With two games remaining in the regular season Clark has secured a playoff spot. Holmes is up next on Tuesday at 7:00.

CONGRATULATIONS COUGARS!

For the second time in as many meets, the Clark Cougar boys 4x100m relay team (Travis Cooke, Brandon Yates, Malcolm Eatman, and Brian Socha) set a new Clark record at the NEISD Relays. Their time of 42.27 beat the previous record, which they set this weekend in the SAISD meet (42.37).  Prior to that, the record was 42.50 set in 2005 by Adam Sauer, Brandon Mills, Ross Vale and Jerrell Wilkerson.

Austin Wells also broke the 1600m record at the South San meet on March 4th.  He ran a 4:25.43 which broke the old record held by Jesse Mader set in 2000 with a time of 4:27.06.
Several other Cougars also did well at the NEISD Relays.  (continue reading…)

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Congratulations to Mark Pollak (’08), a golfer now playing for and attending Harvard.  He won his first college event.  You can read more about Mark in the Express News.

Soto pitching and hitting

The Cougars softball team secured an 8-1 win over Warren on Tuesday. Clark spread its runs almost evenly through the game scoring in every inning except the 2nd. The Cougars had 14 hits to Warren’s 3. Henessey Soto was on the mound and gets her 12th win of the season. Soto is batting .542 on the season followed by Megan Martinez at .452 and Dani Nash at .442.

The Cougars are in 3rd place in District, but just a half game behind 2nd place Taft. Next up is Stevens on Friday at 7:00pm at Northside.