Clark Cougar Football

The Clark Cougars vs. Austin Bowie Bulldogs playoff game will once again be on-the-air over San Antonio airwaves this Friday.  TWO stations will carry the game.  TSRN (TexasSportsRadioNetwork – TSRNSports.com) will once again broadcast and live stream the game with Mark Kusenberger and Virgil Patterson on KKYX-AM beginning at 7:00pm.  This is the sixth broadcast by TSRN this year.

Gary Delaune will also be carrying this week’s game.  The game will air on KYTY 810 AM and www.Star810.com with Gary as well as Gary Newsom, Chris Skogland, Mike Randolph and Walter Stoops.

Consolation Champions

The Clark girls basketball team starts its second week of the season with a 4-1 record. In their opening week the Cougars beat Lee 54-36 and then began the Harlandale Tournament with a 67-33 win over Lanier. They lost to Churchill 57-34 before beating Providence 64-18 and Alamo Heights 59-46 to take the Consolation Championship in the tourney. Senior Guard Carolyn Chavana leads the team thus far with 15.8 points per game.

Next up is Highlands at 5:00 Tuesday at Paul Taylor.

Shantel Swift

David Scorcelletti

Congratulations to Shantel Swift and David Scorcelletti as they represented Clark at the State Cross Country meet. It was hot, hilly and the competition fierce, but an experience they will never forget. A huge thanks to the Cougarettes and Drum Line and everyone who participated in their send off on Friday. Pictures of the send off and meet can be found here . Complete results at http://www.uil.utexas.edu/athletics/cross_country/state/index.html/.

-Rose Meade

Elhad Emerllahu

The Clark boy’s basketball season gets underway this week with the Cougars at #3 in the Express News Area rankings. It’s a new era for Clark basketball with new Head Coach Steve Sylestine calling the shots. Longtime coach Kevin Hamilton retired at the end of last season to move to an assistant athletic director’s position with NISD.

Returning for the Cougars is Elhad Emerllahu, an All District and Area Super Team pick last year who sportswriters expect to compete for Player of the Year honors this year. Joining Emerllahu as a “Player to Watch” according to the Express News is senior guard Jason Brickman, who recently signed a letter of intent to play for Division 1 Long Island University next year. More on these and other talented returnees and new faces as the Clark season gets underway.

First game is  Tuesday at 6:30 against Highlands at Paul Taylor.

GO COOGS!

Greenbauer hammers Wagner

For the 7th time this season, the Clark Cougar defense has held a team to under 100 yds.rushing and shut down a premier running back. San Antonio rushing leader David Glasco never got his jets started and the result provided a 17-10 win over District 27-5A runner up Wagner Thunderbirds in a bi-district playoff game.

Hayden Greenbauer and the offense took it from there and hammered, hammmered, hammered the overmatched T’birds.  The fun began on the opening kickoff.  Clark kicked to Wagner and Glenn Bonner stripped the ball from the Wagner runner to set up the Cougars on offense.  The hammering began with heavy doses of Greenbauer left, right, and up the middle and at the 6:33 mark of the 1st qtr. Hayden to0k it in from the 1 for a 7-0 lead.

In the 2nd qtr., the defense forced a punt from Wagner.  Joey Cammer blew past his defender to block the punt, setting up the next Cougar points.  Greenbauer would score again at the 9:58 mark with a 5 yd. run.  Wagner would strike back quickly with a 56 yd. pass TD on the following possession.  Webb Williams kicked a 30 yd. FG to make it 17-7 Clark. On the next Wagner drive, Joey Cammer once again delivered a HUGE hit on third down to force Wagner into a FG of its own to send the teams into halftime with Clark leading 17-10. (continue reading…)

The San Antonio Express-News breaks down the area 5A Division 1 playoffs like this:
By Burt Henry and Dan McCarney – Express-News

Class 5A Division I

Favorite: Clark (10-0). With a dominant offensive line, a stifling defense that allows only 8.7 points and 190 yards per game and veteran experience to spare, the Cougars are tailor-made for the playoffs.

Team you don’t want to meet: Roosevelt (7-3). The streaky Rough Riders are back to their early-season form with three straight wins, the most recent knocking longtime nemesis Smithson Valley out of postseason contention.

Game we’d like to see: Clark vs. Southwest (9-0). San Antonio’s only unbeaten teams are carbon copies with their smash-mouth styles. An added twist — the two met in a double-overtime classic, won by Southwest, in the 2007 playoffs.

Elsewhere the paper offers a final look at their Fantasy team point totals with a “Superlative” nod to Clark kicker Webb Williams and more importantly a not so fantasy forecast for a Clark victory on Friday night.

GO COOGS!

Clark guard Jason Brickman signed a National Letter of Intent to play basketball at Long Island University in Brooklyn. The Blackbirds play Division 1 ball in the Northeast Conference. The 5’10” Brickman will join former Taft H.S. forward Julian Boyd on the roster at Long Island.

Brickman and his Clark teammates begin the ’09-’10 season on November 17th under the leadership of new head coach Steve Sylestine.

Larry Martin Courtesy WOAI.com

The Clark football team has launched an effort to both honor and aid O’Connor H.S. principal Larry Martin as he fights thyroid cancer. Mr. Martin is a former Clark coach and administrator. Football players are selling black and silver spirit ribbons for $2 each to raise money in support of Mr. Martin and his family during this difficult time.

The ribbons read: “Play Off Bound, Playing in Support of Larry Martin. Once a Cougar Always a Cougar”

The team is asking fans to help them show Mr. Martin and his family how much the Clark Cougars care about their own.

Mr. Martin was a coach at Clark many years ago and was Clark’s Vice Principal from 1997-1999 and the Clark Principal from 1999-2000. It was at that time that he was first diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

Buy your ribbon in support of Mr. Martin from any Clark football player.

Chapman has the perfect game - twice

Senior football center and college bound Robert Chapman is featured in the Express News this Thursday.  You can read it in print or read it now here. Chapman has numerous awards for the Clark Cougars and is one of many great linemen on an offense that is averaging 33 points a game.

Claire Webster signs

Clark volleyball player Claire Webster made her commitment to Midwestern State University official during a signing ceremony at Clark today. Webster, an all district right side hitter for the Cougars, will also play right side for the Mustangs.

Webster made her commitment to the Division II school after a visit back in September. She says other schools had discouraged her from pursuing a nursing degree while playing volleyball, but Midwestern State did not and that was a big factor in her decision. The Mustangs compete in the Lone Star Conference.

Webster’s coach at Clark is Kristen Daniell. Her parents are Timothy and Shanan Webster.