Barboza leads Cougars

Clark soccer midfielder Oscar Barboza is in the spotlight this week.  Roving reporter Pat Turner of the San Antonio Express News Community section highlights the senior’s talent and quiet leadership for the district leading Cougars in this article.

Up next for soccer is Stevens on Friday at the Northside fields. Girls play at 5:00 and boys at 7:00.

GO COOGS!

Jason Brickman

Looking familiar in black and white, 2010 Clark grad Jason Brickman led his Long Island University Blackbirds into the NCAA  Basketball Tournament on Wednesday night. Brickman, a freshman point guard, had 15 points including two critical free throws in the final seconds of overtime. Read about the game, seen on ESPN2, here.

Northside ISD alums (continue reading…)

Clark Lift-a-thon

The 18th annual Lift-A-Thon, sponsored by the Clark Texas Football Club, was another huge success. With a packed house of enthusiastic Cougar fans  the Lift-A-Thon provided an exciting look at the strength of next season’s Varsity and Junior Varsity squads.  Several players exceeded their personal best records. Among those still standing in the plus 300’s at the end were  Roger Lamar (jr),  Charles  Quichocho (jr)  and the DeHart brothers – William (soph) and Blake (jr). (continue reading…)

Clark softball continued its winning ways on Tuesday with a 9-2 victory over Warren. The Cougars racked up 17 hits and got runs from Megan Aragones, Alex Losoya, Henessey Soto, Britney Ramos, Dani Nash, Liz Rodriguez and Gabby Aguilar. Soto was the winning pitcher, spending all 7 innings on the mound.

Clark is now 11-5 on the season and 4-1 in district for 2nd place in the standings. Next game is Friday at 5:00 against Stevens at Northside.

The Clark boys soccer team suffered their first district loss of the season on Tuesday at Northside. The second place Warren Warriors took a 1-0 lead in the first half and finished the game with a second half goal for a 2-0 win.

The loss does not affect Clark’s hold on first place in the district.

On the girls side, Clark came away with a 2-2 tie against Warren. Blair Socha and Andrea Romero scored for the Cougars.

Three Clark Cougar varsity sports are in this week’s Express News rankings.

Since the first soccer ranking came out in preseason, the Clark boys soccer team has been ranked #1 in the San Antonio area.  Tonight they play Warren.  A win in that game would be a big step towards a district championship.  The Cougars are currently undefeated in district play.

The Clark softball team moved up to #6 in the rankings from #10 last week.  After a tough 1-0 loss to Taft as the very first game of the season (whose idea was that?), the Cougars have gelled and come storming through the district and are on a 8 game win streak.

A good showing in the NEISD tournament helped propel Clark baseball into the top 10 this week for the first time this season.  Clark is the only ranked NISD team.

And even though they don’t rank them, the golf team has shown some great growth since the beginning of the season and the water polo teams, always a perennial state tournament team, start play this week.

IT’S A GOOD DAY TO BE A CLARK COUGAR!

Only the strong survive

The annual Clark football fundraiser, Lift-a-thon, will take place tomorrow night at 6:30pm in the Clark boys gym.  Besides an unbelievable amount of testosterone, there will be dancing by the Top Cats.  There’s still time to sponsor one of the players who will be participating.

Lift-a-thon means there’s just a few weeks left until SPRING FOOTBALL SEASON!  Come on out and cheer on the guys and enjoy the Top Cat performances.

Brickman bigtime baller

Jason Brickman, a 2010 Clark varsity basketball alum, has had a good week.  As a freshman point guard for Long Island University, he hit two crucial free throws with seconds left in the game to send the Blackbirds to the Northeast Conference championship game.  The highlight was on ESPN’s SportsCenter.  Before that game, his coach compared him to John Stockton.

Thanks to his efforts, you can catch Jason on ESPN2 this Wednesday night at 6:00pm (local) where he will be playing for a trip to the NCAA tournament.  You can read more about him in this article touting his “rookie of the year” status with his teammates and coaches or this article recapping the previous game and his career high 16 pts. and game winning shot.

WAY TO GO – ER – BLACKBIRD!  GOOD LUCK AND WE’RE PROUD YOU’RE A COUGAR!

Clark takes 2nd at NEISD

Clark Baseball lost to Churchill Chargers 14-7 in the Championship Game Saturday of the NEISD Tournament. Clark started strong and early, ending the 3rd inning of play 7-0, and forcing Churchill to go to their 3rd pitcher at the end of 3. In the 4th inning Churchill bats woke up with 5 solid hits, and these combined with 4 costly Clark errors, resulted in 8 runs for Churchill to start the 4th inning. Although Clark continued to hit, they were never able to put together a series of offensive bats to score more runs. John Henderson, Matt Cohen & Hunter McFall pitched for Clark during the game. Overall, it was a very good tournament for the Cougars, as they scored 40 runs and gave up only 22 through 6 games. Next up for the Cougars is a District Game against Brandeis at 4:45 on Tuesday at NS # 1. This is a critical game in District play as both teams are undefeated. Come cheer on your Cougars!