Yes, spring is individual season for Clark tennis, but if it had been team season…the Coogs would have placed first at the Kemah Boardwalk Tournament.

Clark tennis was burning in Boerne last weekend. Junior Ricky Keh made it to the final round and senior Rudy Bonilla to the semis in the varsity boys’ singles draw. Sophomore Karsten Lowe won the JV boys’ singles draw—first out of 32 players—with soph Andrew Palomo making it to quarters. Sophomore Fernanda Sepulveda made it to quarters in the JV girls’ singles draw.

This week Varsity tennis goes to District. GO COUGARS!

Clark tennis wrapped up a successful trip to the Kemah Boardwalk Tournament last week, winning the the top two spots in boys’ singles and mixed doubles, a third place in girls’ singles, and a 5th and 8th place finish in boys’ doubles. This week the Coogs play in Boerne, and next week is the District tournament

Score: Clark 7 Brandeis 11
Player in picture: Abby Mullins, shortstop

A great game by the Varsity Softball team, but the Cougars came up short considering a solid offensive performance with 13 hits by Clark on the night, Isabel Pisano leading the team with 3 hits, Raynelle Nash and Jasmine Perez with 2 a piece. A tight game throughout, the Broncos pulled away in the last innings to claim the victory in the first meeting of the district foes for the season. This team is young, but coming together and has high expectations as we continue to battle through a tough district race.

Disappointing, that  is the best word to describe Region this year. Clark had a hard draw, probably the second hardest first round draw in the tournament, NEISD champions Reagan. The Rattlers are unusually deep this year, with players able to specialize in doubles  or singles instead of playing both. The Coogs fought valiantly, but went down 10-3.

After placing 1st in District for the 23rd year in a row, Clark tennis team places 1st in the Area!

After beating Health Careers, 10-3, they grab another 1st!

New head tennis coach Marco Valdez extended Clark’s District  Championship winning streak to 23 straight  Saturday, Octber 12, 2013 at the Northside Tennis Center.

Our tennis team, winning District for the last 22 years, welcomes the new
Head Coach, Marco Valdez! He was the Head Tennis Coach at Roosevelt
 High School, the Tennis Pro at Jewish Community Center and
Whispering Oak. In addition to coaching tennis, he will also teach Geometry.
 We welcome him to Clark, Texas!

Austin Wells
-Courtesy Wells family

Things get serious after Spring Break for our athletes in Track and Field, Tennis and Golf and today’s San Antonio Express News made a list of area athletes to keep an eye on in those sports. Two Clark seniors made the list:

* Austin Wells – long distance runner headed to Texas A&M in the fall. Wells is expected to outpace all area 5A runners in the 3200. The E-N list.

*David Starck – singles tennis, is the defending 27-5A champion and also placed 3rd at the Regional tourney in 2012. The E-N list.

Best of luck to these and all their teammates from Clark!

The bats were hot for the Clark softball team on Friday as they defeated Jay 14-3.  The game was called  in the 5th inning based on the 10 run rule. Victoria Centeno was on the mound for the Clark win. The Coogs are now 3-2 in district play with a busy Spring Break week ahead. It’s a great time to take in some softball out at the Northside complex  with a game against Marshall at noon on Monday, Holmes Tuesday at 2:00 and Warren on Thursday at 2:00. Good luck Cougars!

Meanwhile baseball had a non-district win over MacArthur on Friday 2-1 at Blossom. You can catch some good baseball next week as the boys spend their Spring Break at the Northside fields. Brandeis is up first – Monday at noon, then Jay at 2:45 on Tuesday and on Thursday they’ll play Marshall at noon. Go Coogs!