18th Hole at Oak Hills

Each year, the Clark Athletic Booster Club provides volunteers for the AT&T Championship PGA golf tournament at the Oak Hills Country Club. This year it’s Oct. 21-22 for Clark Cougar volunteers.   It’s a great day of walking the course with the Senior tour players and enjoying a PGA tournament. The result is thousands of dollars for our student-athletes. If you’d like to help, please contact Heidi Lentz or Sam Guido.

Volunteers do not have to be Clark parents so take a friend, enjoy the course and help earn money in a relaxing way for the Clark Cougars.  Thanks to volunteers from last year, our students have received over $20,000 so far this year, which has been used for everything from uniforms to new mascot costumes.

Sam Perez, a varsity Clark track athlete, participated in the AAU National Track and Field meet at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa this week.  He placed 42nd out of 65 athletes (Young Men’s division) in the 800m run prelims with a time of 2:04.  The top 12 moved on to the Finals.  He reached the meet by qualifying 2nd in the Regional meet with a time of 2:01.74.  He placed 18th at Regionals in the 400m with a time of 54.10.

Others Cougars participating in Regionals:
Shantel Swift, 2nd in the 400m, 58.81; 7th in the 800m, 2:28.62; 1st in Long Jump, 17ft, 11 inches; 2nd in Triple Jump, 36 feet (Intermediate division) but was unable to attend the National meet
Morgan Thomas, tied for 3rd in Pole Vault, 13 feet (Young Men’s division)

Congratulations and here’s to a great season!

There’s a roster full of Clark Cougars on the  2009 Texas State Champions in Senior League softball and the team is just one game away from the Senior League World Series.  The Champs have rolled through Divisional, Sectional and Regional playoffs and plan to make their last stop Sussex County, Delaware where they will compete for a world championship. The Cougars on the team include pitchers Henessey Soto and Megan Aragones, 1st baseman Felicia Sanchez, 2nd baseman Britney Ramos, 3rd baseman Megan Martinez and Centerfielder Dani Nash. All six girls played varsity softball for Clark in the spring. They are joined on the team by 3 players who will be entering Clark this fall. For more information and to help with the team’s expenses visit http://seniorchamps.webs.com/ .

*Editor’s note: The Texas Champs came up short in their bid to make the World Series, falling 6-1 in the championship game.

Congratulations to a couple of Clark softball players who are playing summer ball.  Felicia Sanchez and her Northside Little League Senior All Stars won the District 19 title and are competing in Ft. Worth for the regional title.  Christina Rodriquez, a 2009 graduate, is playing for the Texas Challengers Gold, the first San Antonio team ever to qualify as an American Softball Association Gold Team.  They will be competing in a national tournament beginning August 1st.

Both girls played on the 2009 Clark Cougar team, which reached the playoffs and made it to the 2nd round of the playoffs for the first time in school history.  Good Luck ladies!

Clark senior golfer Hunter Gathright tees off today in the Greater San Antonio Junior Championship at Brackenridge golf course. 195 golfers from the San Antonio area will be competing for the title.

The area’s best in spring sports as named by the Express News  includes some outstanding athletes from Clark  as do the All District squads for softball and baseball.

 In softball, Christina Rodriguez made the paper’s Super Team. In her senior season the Clark catcher hit .485 and was a unanimous All District selection, she will take her game to the next level at St. Mary’s University next year. Rodriguez was also selected to the Class 5A team for the area. Other softball players named to the 1st team All-District squad are Megan Aragones and Henessey Soto, both sophomore pitchers. On the All-District 2nd team is freshman  Britney Ramos, sophomore Megan Martinez and junior Rochelle Nash.

In baseball, Cougar pitcher Carl O’Neal was named to the Class 5A team and was a unanimous selection for the 28-5A 1st team All-District squad. O’Neal will play ball at St. Mary’s University next year. Also named 1st Team All District are senior Joseph Ybarra and sophomore Jason Cervantes – both unanimous selections,  senior Trey Doebbler and sophomore catcher Braden Mattson. Making All-District 2nd team is junior pitcher Vince Salazar.

In golf, junior Hunter Gathright was named to the All-Area team.

Congratulations Cougars!

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Several  Clark Varsity Baseball Players have been recognized by the baseball website, SanAntonio5ABaseball.com. The site’s 2009 All San Antonio Super Team includes pitchers Carl O’Neal & Vincent Salazar, catcher Braden Mattson, outfielder Hunter McFall, and designated hitter Joseph Ybarra.  St Mary’s University bound Carl O’Neal was also a runner up for MVP.  The Cougars advanced to the second round of the 2009 playoffs and they graduate only 3 players from this year’s team.

Congratulations and best of luck in 2010!

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Carl O'Neal to pitch at the next level.

Senior Carl O’Neal, who helped pitch the Clark Cougars into the 2nd round of the playoffs, committed to continuing his baseball career with the St. Mary’s Rattlers.  O’Neal, who went 10-4 this year, says he enjoyed the season because of the friends on the team and the underclassmen who were willing to listen and learn, helping what was predicted to be a middle of the road team exceed all expectations.  O’Neal, who is considering a degree in engineering, made his decision, he said, based on the academic opportunities, the coaching staff and the school’s reputation in baseball.

O’Neal will stay in form with appearances in two All Star games this summer.  Carl is the son of Kay and Dan O’Neal.  Clark Cougar baseball is coached by Aldo Velazquez.

Congratulations to Carl on a great career at Clark High School.

Except for the 2nd inning, the Clark Cougars played valiantly but fell short to Austin Westlake 5-3 in a one game elimination Area playoff game.  The Cougars jumped on the Chaps in the first inning, scoring two runs.  The top of the 2nd inning the Chaparral bats came alive and they put 5 across the plate.  Undaunted, the Cougars came back, Jonathan Fargnoli popping out on a sacrifice fly to score another run, making it 5-3 after three innings.  The Cougar defense stiffened but three double plays by the Westlake defense down the stretch killed any chance of a Cougar rally.  For a team picked early in the season to finish in the middle of the pack, this Clark team showed what a little Cougar pride and hard work can accomplish.  Congratulations for a great season, thanks to the Seniors and look for a great season next year.  The Clark Cougar varsity team is coached by Aldo Velazquez.

1st inning: Hunter McFall base hit; Braden Mattson base hit, Trey Doebbler RBI single, Jonathan Fargnoli RBI single

3rd inning: Trey Doebbler double; Jonathan Fargnoli SAC RBI (Braden Mattson scores)

7th inning: Vincent Salazar single; Jimmy Wells single

PHOTOS

The Clark Cougars take on the Westlake Chaparrals for the Area title in the 5A playoffs today at Texas State in San Marcos @ 5pm.  Everyone is invited to the send off from Clark at 2:45pm to wish the guys a victory over the Chaps.  If you can’t make the game, be sure to check this site for updates throughout the game.