The bats were hot for Clark Tuesday night at Northside field as the Cougars opened the second half of district play with a 9-1 pounding of Brandeis. The Coogs had 12 hits including a solo homerun by Braden Mattson and a triple from Jim Wells. Vincent Salazar pitched a complete game with 13 strikeouts to take the win.

This brings the Cougars district record to 7-2 and the season record to 11-8. They are tied for second place in 28-5A with Stevens and will play the Falcons on Thursday afternoon at 4:45 at Northside.

Clark Cougar Varsity Baseball

The #1 Clark Cougars varsity baseball team began their preseason games last night at a cold and windy South San High School, defeating South San 6 – 2.  Returning lettermen Vincent Salazar, Jonathon Fargnoli, Jim Wells, Jeremy Casper, Jason Cervantes, Diego Hernandez, Hunter McFall, Peter Rozanski, Braden Mattson, Ryan Skowronski and Tyler Reinagel were joined by Chad Dullnig, Chris Werland, Matt Cohen, John Henderson and Cullen Holt.  Salazar, Werland, Skowronski, Reinagel, Cohen and Henderson pitched the game, giving up only 2 runs in 10 innings.  Ranked # 1 in San Antonio and #14 in the state in pre-season polls, the Clark Cougars showed well and that they have the talent to make it into the post season.   Clark plays scrimmages this weekend at Madison HS at 10 & 12. They begin District games vs. Brandeis,  on February 23 at 4:45p at Paul Taylor, NS # 2.  Come out to see the boys play!

-submitted by G. Graham

Photo by Lisa Wells

Clark’s Varsity teams both fared well with 3rd place finishes at the NISD meet on Saturday, October 10th.  Twenty five teams covered the course at Hardin Athletic Complex on a cool, overcast morning.  Shantel Swift (12:31) was 2nd in the 2 mile girls race and Glynnis Meade was 4th (12:36).  Rounding out the team scoring were Mel Schwartz (13:31), Shaneve Swift (13:36), and Katherine Ritchie (13:42).  The boys team were led by 5th/6th place David Scorcelletti (16:41) and Austin Wells (16:42) for the 3 mile course.  Jose Sierra (17:15), Ryan Pavlich (17:29), and Jim Wells (18:21) were next in for the Cougars.  Pictures of the Varsity and JV races can be found at http://clarkcrosscountry2009.shutterfly.com/.

The JV teams will be at the Central Catholic Relays on Wednesday, and Varsity will travel to Seguin on Saturday.  Countdown to District – 3 weeks!

-Rose Meade