Rudy Bonilla finished his Clark tennis career with a third place finish in the regional tournament today.

Bonilla is pictured with Coach Marco Valdez.

Go Clark!

Our Clark Cougars fought the good fight Friday night on a gloriously sunny evening at the Blossom soccer fields. From the moment they took the field, you could see their spirit and focus on the game. The stands were bursting with fans from both Brownsville and San Antonio with lots of supporters coming out to cheer on our hometown team. Unfortunately, the only goal of the game was Lopez’s 21st minute success off of a corner. Clark fought hard, repeatedly taking shots on goal but unable to make it past the Lopez Lobos’ keeper. Clark’s keeper, senior Preston Campbell, did a heroic job in clearing the Lobos’ goal attempts and freshman Luis-Carlos Garcia and senior Fernando Maya did great jobs stepping in to fill the gap left by Jake Peterson’s absence.

Thanks to Coaches Rule and Johnson for leading our young men to a 19-4-1 season. It’s been a pleasure to watch the team mature this year. Also, after a particularly grueling playoff series, we must thank the trainers, Doc Rost and Coach Stone, and student trainers Kellie Ross and Leslie Poore for keeping our players as healthy as possible. Finally, many thanks to the Clark Cougars Booster Club for all of their support.

In honor of all their hard work, here is the list of the Cougars who suited up for regular season and the playoffs.

Seniors
Preston Campbell (Captain, s-starter)
Paolo Nardi
Andre Garcia
John Cintron (s)
Gus Moir (Captain, s)
Matt Albo
Fernando Maya (s)
Chris Pantaleon (s)
Nick O’Malley (s)
David Koehler
Jose Camacho
Matt Morales

Juniors
Diego Sepulveda (s)
Eric Ascencio
Andrew Pantaleon
Matt Jacobs (s)
Colin Segura
Tristan Cavazos (s)

Sophomores
Colby Lorenz
Jorge Guerrero
Jake Peterson (s)
Patrick Grund
Enrique Aleman (s)

Freshman
Luis-Carlos Garcia (s)
Alec Ascencio
Javi Martinez (s)
Brady McNamara
James Morales

It’s ALWAYS a great day to be a Clark Cougar!

by Caryn Moir

On the last day of the JV District tourney, Clark rocked on. Robbie Keh came in first in boys’ singles, Karsten Lowe third. Boys’ doubles looked similar, with Mason Nichols and Cristian Garza taking first and teammates Andrew Palomo and Noah Hupp third. The girls’ doubles team of Grace Golstein and Syvoney Ybarra were third.

GO COOGS!

Clark’s mixed doubles teams took first and second places in JV District tournament action today. Matt Gurwitz and Katelyn Pavlich took first, while Grayson Wesolowski and Fernanda Sepulveda were second. The tournament concludes tomorrow.
GO COOGS!

Clark tennis team photo after District today at NTC.

Relays:
Girls 200 Med – 7th  (Anastasiya Byelousova, Lauren Cartee, Reagan Nentwich, Marielle Rominger)
Boys 200 Med – 4th (Josh Kaler, Michael Macha, Aidan Plummer, Connor Harris)
Girls 200 Free –  6th (Marielle Rominger, Rachel Deschner, Bailey Ratner, Katy Crouch)
Boys 200 Free – 10th (Connor Harris, Connelly Dallahan, Aidan Plummer, Dylan Vincesilio)
Girls 400 Free – 5th (Reagan Nentwich, Marielle Rominger, Bailey Ratner, Anastasiya Byelousova)
Boys 400 Free – 7th (Connor Harris, Aidan Plummer, Josh Kaler, Dylan Vincesilio)
 
Individual Events:
Reagan Nentwich – 5th 200 Freestyle; GOLD in 100 Fly
Josh Kaler – 13th 200 Freestyle
Bailey Ratner – 14th 50 Freestyle
Michael Macha – 4th in 100 Fly; SILVER in 100 Breast
Marielle Rominger – 10th in 100 Freestyle

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!

The Clark boys basketball team closed out the season with a 65-60 win over Stevens. Shawn Gulley led with 28 points , Justin Brickman added 12 and Scotty Carl had 7.  Nathan Josephs and Marcus Hawkins scored 4 points each, Ruben Garcia and Matt Meron added 3 points a piece and Jorden Kite and Kris Sneed each had two points.

It was a tough rebuilding season for the Cougars, but, as always, Coach Steve Sylestine’s team represented Clark well. Best of luck to all the seniors!

Eat. Then eat some more!

You can help support this year’s Project Graduation by feeding you, your friends or your family at Culver’s.  10% of all sales on Wednesday, the 23rd (tomorrow) will be donated back to the Class of 2012.  For more information, visit the Clark Athletic Booster club website.

The Clark Cougars varsity girls basketball team are hanging some big numbers on the scoreboard this year (wins with 99, 78, 75 and 74 points) and the results have them ready for a district title run.  This past weekend, they defeated New Braunfels Canyon 62-50 to win the Cougarette Tournament.  It was their 2nd tournament win of the season as they were champions of the Harlandale tourney.

They start district this week against O’Connor Tuesday evening at 6:30pm.  GREAT JOB, COUGARS!